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Healing8 quotes
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees? — William Shakespeare · 1604We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. — Marcel Proust · 1922But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Time is the great physician. — Benjamin Disraeli · 1837There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in — Leonard Cohen · 1992Sometimes it still hurts. You know how it is, man. It's like, you wake up every day and it hurts a little bit less, and then you wake up one day and it doesn't hurt at all. And the funny thing is, is that, this is kinda weird, but it's like, it's like you almost miss that pain. — Rob · 1996All 8 quotes →Effects of time2 quotes
Time is the great physician. — Benjamin Disraeli · 1837Time has too much credit... It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary. — Ivy Compton-Burnett · 1951Suffering2 quotes
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. — Marcel Proust · 1922But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Broken heart1 quote
Sometimes it still hurts. You know how it is, man. It's like, you wake up every day and it hurts a little bit less, and then you wake up one day and it doesn't hurt at all. And the funny thing is, is that, this is kinda weird, but it's like, it's like you almost miss that pain. — Rob · 1996Emotional scars1 quote
But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Getting over someone1 quote
Sometimes it still hurts. You know how it is, man. It's like, you wake up every day and it hurts a little bit less, and then you wake up one day and it doesn't hurt at all. And the funny thing is, is that, this is kinda weird, but it's like, it's like you almost miss that pain. — Rob · 1996Human frailty1 quote
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in — Leonard Cohen · 1992Impatience1 quote
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees? — William Shakespeare · 1604Patience1 quote
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees? — William Shakespeare · 1604The human condition1 quote
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in — Leonard Cohen · 1992Time1 quote
Time is the great physician. — Benjamin Disraeli · 1837