30 Quotes About Emotional-wounds

You do not get to pick and choosethe parts of me that you loveas if you're picking petals from a flowerlove melove me notlove thisnot thatthrowing the down on the grass while I'm askingdo you love medo you love medo you love me yetby the time you are done pulling at the corethere is nothing left for you to love anymore

Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them.

I go through my days quietlytrying not to make wavesbut one whisper creates ripples in the sleeping seadon't make a sound I saytoo lateit's awake--tsunami

Emotional abuse can leave a victim feeling like a shell of a person, separated from the true essence of who they naturally are. It also leads to a victim feeling tormented and tortured by their own emotions.

Soul Abuse is the destruction of a victim's awareness of the strength within their soul. It stems from the abuser's intention to corrupt another's understanding of their own significance.  

Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls

I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

Stop thirsting for things that are bitter,Go crazy here, here in these arms that are stillWrapped around the absent shape of you,Go crazy with me, thrash about in our bedAnd weep and wail and call me by her name,At least have the courage to let our hearts break together.

Over all this lay Hoppie's dictum: First with the head and then with the heart. Winning was something you worked at intellectually, emotion clouds the mind and is its natural enemy. This made for a loneliness which often let me aching to share an emotion but equally afraid that if I did so I would reveal a weakness which could later be used against me.