(280 quotes found)
“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.”
Rose F. Kennedy
“A wounded deer leaps the highest.”
Emily Dickinson
“The optimist already sees the scar over the wound; the pessimist still sees the wound underneath the scar”
Ernst Schroder
“A smile cures the wounding of a frown.”
William Shakespeare
“How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?”
“A knife-wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.”
Turkish Proverb
“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal -- every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open -- this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.”
Washington Irving
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound”
“These words are razors to my wounded heart.”
“A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever”
Jessamyn West
