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Quotes About Healing

Pat told Gately that grim honesty and hopelessness were the only things you need to start recovering from Substance-addiction, but that without these qualities you were totally up the creek.
~ David Foster Wallace
The truth will set you free, but not until it's done with you.' The
~ David Foster Wallace
Here is how to take nonnarcotic muscle relaxants for the back spasms that come from thousands of serves to no one. Here is how to weep in bed trying to remember when your torn blue ankle didn't hurt every minute. This is the whirlpool, a friend.
~ David Foster Wallace
Flesh decays; bone endures. Flesh forgets and forgives ancient injuries; bone heals, but it always remembers: a childhood fall, a barroom brawl; the smash of a pistol butt to the temple, the quick sting of a blade between the ribs. The bones capture such moments, preserve a record of them, and reveal them to anyone with eyes trained to see the rich visual record, to hear the faint whispers rising from the dead.
~ William M. Bass
The Americans have found the healing of God in a variety of things, the most pleasant of which is probably automobile drives.
~ William Saroyan
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
~ William Shakespeare
One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.
~ William Shakespeare
Your tale, sir, would cure deafness.
~ William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? Iago
~ William Shakespeare
It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut.
~ William Shakespeare
One pain is lessened by another's anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.
~ William Shakespeare
The grief that does not speak whispers the o'erfraught heart and bids it break.
~ William Shakespeare
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of the perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? DOCTOR: Therein the patient Must minister to himself.
~ William Shakespeare
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end.
~ William Shakespeare
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven.
~ William Shakespeare
Possiamo chiudere con il passato, ma il passato non chiude con noi.
~ William Shakespeare
Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves.
~ William Shakespeare
This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed; Our doctors say this is no month to bleed.
~ William Shakespeare
A piece of work that will make sick men whole.
~ William Shakespeare
When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again?
~ William Shakespeare
But are not some whole that we must make sick?
~ William Shakespeare
Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.
~ William Shakespeare
Tráigame un cirujano, tengo herido el cerebro.
~ William Shakespeare
A leaner action rend us. What's amiss, May it be gently heard. When we debate Our trivial difference loud, we do commit Murther in healing wounds.
~ William Shakespeare