“Oblivion cures the old wounds.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

Memory and Oblivion http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21401/Memory_and_Oblivion
From the poems written in English

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Oblivion cures the old wounds." by Dejan Stojanovic?

Dejan Stojanovic 278

poet, writer, and businessman 1959

Related quotes

“241. An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.”

George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest

Jacula Prudentum (1651)

“Heal the Wound, Cure the illness, but let the Dying spirit go”

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer

Source: Earthsea Books, A Wizard of Earthsea (1968), Chapter 5

“I approach these questions unwillingly, as it wounds, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them.”

Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian

Book XXVIII, sec. 27
History of Rome

“And even the renowned king Arthur himself was mortally wounded; and being carried thence to the isle of Avallon to be cured of his wounds, he gave up the crown of Britain to his kinsman Constantine, the son of Cador, duke of Cornwall.”
Set et inclitus ille rex Arturus letaliter vulneratus est qui illuc ad sananda vulnera sua in insulam Avallonis evectus, Constantino cognato suo, et filio Cadoris ducis Cornubie diadema Britannie concessit.

Geoffrey of Monmouth The History of the Kings of Britain

Bk. 11, ch. 2; p. 271.
Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain)

“An old truth asserts that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

Leonid Kuchma (1938) Second president of Ukraine

Speech at the 49th session of the United Nations General Assembly (excerpts) (1994)

“A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“He who would ease the pain of his wound, should pay his doctor well. Isn’t it so, Doctor? And he who would be cured should pay him badly.”

Agnolo Firenzuola (1493–1543) Italian poet and litterateur

Act V., Scene II. — (Cornelio).
Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 274.
I Lucidi (published 1549)

“In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.”

Eve Ensler book The Vagina Monologues

Source: The Vagina Monologues

“But he who does not let his infirmity be known can scarcely expect to receive a cure. Love is an invisible wound within the body, and, since it has its source in nature, it is a long-lasting ill.”

Marie de France Guigemar

Mes ki ne mustre s'enferté
A peine en peot aver santé:
Amur est plaie dedenz cors,
E si ne piert nïent defors.
Ceo est un mal que lunges tient,
Pur ceo que de nature vient.
"Guigemar", line 481; p. 49.
Lais

“2609. Never think that the Things thou wantest will cure thee of thy Discontents; for they will enlarge thy Desires, and make the Wounds wider. The Way to think we have enough, is not to desire to have too much.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)

“Oblivion cures the old wounds.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Dejan Stojanovic 278

Related quotes

Related topics