“Even when the wound is healed, the scar remains.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 236
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Variant: Even when there is no law, there is conscience.
Source: The Nightingale
“Even when the wound is healed, the scar remains.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 236
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Variant: Even when there is no law, there is conscience.
“Time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open.”
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
A Jew Today (1978)
Adolf Hitler (1889–1945) Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party
Speech in Potsdam (21 March 1933), quoted in The Times (26 September 1939), p. 9
1930s
Mata Amritanandamayi (1953) Hindu spiritual leader and guru
From Amritanandamayi's Speech Against Human Trafficking and Slavery at the Vatican (2014)
“The scar of fire, the dint of steel,
Are easier than Love's wounds to heal.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Canto II
The Troubadour (1825)
“Time wounds all the heals, as we fade out of view.”
Josh Homme (1973) American musician
"I Sat By the Ocean", ...Like Clockwork (2013)
Lyrics, Queens of the Stone Age