“It has been said that time heals all wounds, I don't agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but is never gone.”
Variant: 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.
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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy 6
American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy 1890–1995Related quotes
“Time may heal wounds, but it does not erase the scars.”
Source: Briar Rose (1992), Chapter 12 (p. 72)
“Even when the wound is healed, the scar remains.”
Maxim 236
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Variant: Even when there is no law, there is conscience.
Les défauts de l'âme sont comme les blessures du corps: quelque soin qu'on prenne de les guérir, la cicatrice paraît toujours, et elles sont à tout moment en danger de se rouvrir.
Variant translation: The defects of the mind are like the wounds of the body. Whatever care we take to heal them the scars ever remain, and there is always danger of their reopening.
Maxim 194.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open.”
A Jew Today (1978)
Variant: The mind is a remarcable thing. Just because you can’t see the wound doesn’t mean it isn’t hurting
Source: The Pact
Misattributed
Source: Hearts in Atlantis
“Time heals all wounds.”
Diem adimere aegritudinem hominibus.
Truly from Terentius, Heautontimorumenos, Act III, scene i
Misattributed
“The wounds of the spirit heal and leave no scars.”