Quotes About Healing
At the time I thought, Why cry, you should be happy, you got out. But after all that's happened to me since that day, I understand why. You hold it in, whatever it is, until you can make it through the worst part. Then, once you're safe, you can cry all the tears you couldn't waste time crying before.
~ Margaret Atwood
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It's wrong to give so much time over to mourning, she tells herself. Mourning and brooding. There's nothing to be accomplished by it.
~ Margaret Atwood
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Blessed be those that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Nobody said when.
~ Margaret Atwood
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They meet in church basements and offer bandages to those wounded by the shrapnel of exploding families.
~ Margaret Atwood
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Second-hand American was spreading over him in patches, like mange or lichen. He was infested, garbled, and I couldn't help him: it would take such time to heal, unearth him, scrape down to where he was true.
~ Margaret Atwood
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How long were you supposed to mourn, and what did they say? Make your life a tribute to the loved one.
~ Margaret Atwood
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She stood for a long time, breathing in and breathing in, the scent of the trees and dogs and night flowers and water, because this was the best thing, it was what she wanted, to be outside in the night by herself. She wasn't sick any longer.
~ Margaret Atwood
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Pero quién puede recordar el dolor, una vez que éste ha desaparecido? Todo lo que queda de él es una sombra, ni siquiera en la mente ni en la carne. El dolor deja una marca demasiado profunda como para que se vea, una marca que queda fuera del alcance de la vista y de la mente.
~ Margaret Atwood
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Blessed be those that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Nobody said when.
~ Margaret Atwood
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But remember that forgiveness too is a power.
~ Margaret Atwood
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But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.
~ Margaret Atwood
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Why cry, you should be happy, you got out. But after all that's happened to me since that day, I understand why. You hold it in, whatever it is, until you can make it through the worst part. Then, once you're safe, you can cry all the tears you couldn't waste time crying before.
~ Margaret Atwood
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You hold it in, whatever it is, until you can make it through the worst part. Then, once you're safe, you can cry all the tears you couldn't waste time crying before.
~ Margaret Atwood
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For once in their lives, they loved themselves.
~ Margaret Atwood
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quién puede recordar el dolor una vez que éste ha desaparecido? Todo lo que queda de él es una sombra, ni siquiera en la mente o en la carne. El dolor deja una marca demasiado profunda para que se vea, una marca que queda fuera del alcance de la vista y de la mente.
~ Margaret Atwood
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But who can remember pain, once its over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see.
~ Margaret Atwood
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If it hurts and you feel sick and it's making you ugly, take this, from HelthWyzer; if you're ugly and it hurts and you feel sick about it, take that, from AnooYoo.
~ Margaret Atwood
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But unshed tears can turn you rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue.
~ Margaret Atwood
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It's her second baby, she had another child, once, I know that from the Center, when she used to cry about it at night, like the rest of us only more noisily. So she ought to be able to remember this, what it's like, what's coming. But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.
~ Margaret Atwood
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Fallow state, the Gardeners would say. They used that diagnosis for a wide range of conditions, from depression to post-traumatic stress to being permanently stoned. The theory was that while in a Fallow state you were gathering and conserving strength, nourishing yourself through meditation, sending invisible rootlets out into the universe.
~ Margaret Atwood
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Nothing's broken, nevertheless I'm skinless, the gentlest touch would gut me.
~ Margaret Atwood
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Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?
~ Margaret Atwood
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The SanctuCare women went over and welcomed them and said, "You're here now, it's all right," and the Gilead women started to cry. At the time I thought, Why cry, you should be happy, you got out. But after all that's happened to me since that day, I understand why. You hold it in, whatever it is, until you can make it through the worst part. Then, once you're safe, you can cry all the tears you couldn't waste time crying before.
~ Margaret Atwood
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But who can remember pain, once it's over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain
~ Margaret Atwood
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