“The anguish of loss may be redeemed, but can never be mediated.”
William Barrett (philosopher) book Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
Source: Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958), Chapter Seven, Kierkegard, p. 138
Chester W. Nimitz (1885–1966) United States Navy fleet admiral
As quoted in Historic Ship Exhibits in the United States (1969), by United States Naval History Division, United States Navy, p. 24
“The best and greatest winning is a true friend; and the greatest loss is the loss of time.”
Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher
The Sayings of the Wise (1555)
Come, ye Disconsolate.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Time may heal wounds, but it does not erase the scars.”
Jane Yolen book Briar Rose
Source: Briar Rose (1992), Chapter 12 (p. 72)
“No suffering can be foreign to a Christian, not even the anguish that comes with the loss of God.”
Thomas J. J. Altizer (1927–2018) American radical theologian
The Gospel of Christian Atheism (1966), p. 23
“Sometimes the cost of integrity is the loss of a friend.”
Jack McDevitt (1935) American novelist, Short story writer
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 7 (p. 69)
“Time heals all wounds.”
Diem adimere aegritudinem hominibus.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Truly from Terentius, Heautontimorumenos, Act III, scene i
Misattributed
“Dignitary wounds cannot always be healed with the stroke of a pen.”
Anthony Kennedy (1936) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U. S. ____, (2015), majority opinion.
