Meanings
- Synonym of time heals all wounds.
“Time heals all sorrows,” they tell you; but it is a platitude, and not a true one. Sometimes people deceive themselves; they think they have forgotten, and then something brings all back again, and it is worse than before.’
1891, Mary Linskill, Between The Heather And The Northern Sea, London: Richard Bentley and Son, page 1272 more examples
“Time heals all sorrows; and that which, perhaps, appears almost unbearable at the beginning of the year, may be looked upon with calm complacency at the end of it. Time will do that for us which nothing else can; and grateful ought we to be that it is so.”
1844, Anonymous [Eliza Peake], Honour! A Tale, London: Saunders and Otley, page 121By time, I don’t mean that “time heals all sorrows.” That’s a bad cliché— and nothing could be further from the truth. Time will never heal all sorrows. I know because it hasn’t healed mine, and it certainly hasn’t healed the hearts of the people whose stories I listen to every day.
2013, Rita Schulte, Shattered: Finding Hope and Healing Through the Losses of Life, Abilene, Texas: Leafwood Publishers, →ISBN, page 61Synonyms: time heals all wounds
Synonyms & antonyms
proverbSynonym of time heals all wounds.
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