time heals
Pain diminishes naturally
Time heals expresses the belief that emotional pain diminishes with the passage of time.
Usually appears in the fuller form time heals all wounds, offered as consolation to someone experiencing grief, heartbreak, or disappointment.
The saying acknowledges that recovery requires patience rather than active intervention: Give it a few months—time heals.
- woundsBodily tissue damage
- scarsHealed wound tissue
- emotional scarsLasting harm from trauma
- broken heartEmotional pain from loss
- mendingRestoring damaged items
old wounds · grief · heartbreak · fading · memories · patience · recovery · getting over · passing · sorrow · gradual · closure · distance · forgetting · acceptance · letting · go · ache
- conventional wisdomearly bird, apple a day, opposites attract, nice guys finish last, patience
- proverbsproverbs, sayings, maxims, adages, aphorisms
- time conceptsclock, calendar, hour, minute, second
- time sayingscarpe diem, seize the day, better late than never, tempus fugit, haste makes waste
- Moving Onlet go, move on, closure, acceptance, fresh start
time healsquick fix
Hasty temporary solution
instant gratification · miracle cure · snap out of it · get over it · magic bullet
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