
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
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
“The wounds of the spirit heal and leave no scars.”
“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.
24 March 1895, page 337
John of the Mountains, 1938
“Time may heal wounds, but it does not erase the scars.”
Source: Briar Rose (1992), Chapter 12 (p. 72)
“The scar of fire, the dint of steel,
Are easier than Love's wounds to heal.”
Canto II
The Troubadour (1825)
“What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?”
“The rain
Never falls upwards.
When the wound
Stops hurting
What hurts is
The scar.”
"Poems Belonging to a Reader for Those who Live in Cities" [Zum Lesebuch für Städtebewohner gehörige Gedichte] (1926-1927), poem 10, trans. Frank Jones in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 148
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)