“Comrades and friends! for ours is strength
Has brooked the test of woes;
O worse-scarred hearts! these wounds at length
The Gods will heal, like those.”

— John Conington

Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 12

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John Conington 85

British classical scholar 1825–1869

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

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For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.”

Nora Roberts book Bed of Roses

Source: Bed of Roses

“What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear
That which disfigures it.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

“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.

“Someone has inflicted the wounds and scars you now possess, but healing is left to you alone.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1979

“Time may heal wounds, but it does not erase the scars.”

Jane Yolen book Briar Rose

Source: Briar Rose (1992), Chapter 12 (p. 72)

“The defects and faults in the mind are like wounds in the body. After all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind.”

François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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)