Ivy Compton-Burnett Quotes

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.

I think that's very sad, that I haven't allowed my heart to be broken. I have broken a few.

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

I was only ever briefly angry with my dad for leaving us. It happened shortly after his death, when things were at their darkest and the grief in me was raw and at its worst.

They say time heals all wounds, but sometimes you wonder.

Time heals all wounds.

Time takes away the grief of men.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

In some ways, I've been left with this great 'idolic' image of my father, but there's a sense of absence, too. You miss his advice and, also, his getting to know the person I have become.

I think every soft child in the world gets damaged. All of of us come into the world and get damaged. It's just a matter of how much.

There's definitely still a lot of hurt from losing my guys or the fact that I got out and I felt like it wasn't my time yet.

It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.

It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.

My heart got broken so many times because I put so much pressure on it. And then... I got blindsided.

I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.

Before the old wound can be healed, there is fresh blood flowing.

Time will heal everything.

I finally got the dad I always wanted and then he left. At 18, 19 years old, I was really upset and had to work through that.

The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.