Famous quotes containing the words gunshot and/or wounds:
“Open the envelope quickly,
O this is not our sons writing, yet his name is signd,
O a strange hand writes for our dear son, O stricken mothers soul!
All swims before her eyes, flashes with black, she catches the main
words only,
Sentences broken, gunshot wound in the breast, cavalry skirmish, taken to hospital,
At present low, but will soon be better.”
—Walt Whitman (18191892)
“There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of lifes circumstances to a familiarity with the vices he condemns the most vehementlywithout his completely recognizing this vice which, disguised as certain events, touches him and wounds him: strange words, an inexplicable attitude, on a given night, of the person whom he otherwise has so many reasons to love.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)