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Topic·Healing✕clear

Play · Tragedy (play)

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

William Shakespeare

Othello · 1604

★ 6.2

Novel · Modernist literature

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time · 1922

★ 5.5

Novel · Dystopian fiction

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

The Handmaid's Tale · 1985

★ 3.8

Novel

Time is the great physician.

Benjamin Disraeli

Henrietta Temple · 1837

★ 3.7

Song · Folk music

There is a crack, a crack in everything That's how the light gets in

Leonard Cohen

Anthem · 1992

★ 3.7

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Comedy drama

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

Swingers · 1996

★ 3.5

Novel

Time 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

1951

★ 3.5

Poem

Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart Could have recover'd greennesse?

George Herbert

The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations · 1633

★ 1.9

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