Anne Bishop Quotes

I have some scars... lots of internal ones. But they're all scabbed over.

Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

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

I don't know whether you ever get over things that cause you pain.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.

Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

What I'm most interested in is not necessarily the wound, but the scar. Not how someone is wounded, but what the scar does later.

Physical wounds heal, but those on the soul are difficult to heal.

The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul.

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.

You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.

But when you are being physically and psychologically tortured, it is difficult to remove yourself from the pressingness of the moment at hand. Here's how I dealt with bullying: I cried, I hated myself, I hated my life. I didn't deal with it, I survived it, but I never dealt with it. So here are two tips from someone with lots of experience. 1: It's not about you, it has nothing to do with you, it's about the assholes doing it to you. 2: Your job is not to deal with it, your job is to survive it, which you CAN do because it WILL end. And then yes, it will get better.

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

Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul.

Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.

I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

We all have scars [...] Better by far for them to be worn on the outside.