Time heals all wounds
Meaning: Emotional pain fades with the passage of time.
Origin: That grief softens with time is an idea found across classical and medieval writing. Quotation books credit the Greek playwright Menander with calling time the healer of all necessary evils, but the line can't be matched to his surviving fragments. Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde (1380s) has "As tyme hem hurt, a tyme doth hem cure," and the exact wording appears in H. Rider Haggard's novel Morning Star (1910).
Equivalents in French, Spanish, Japanese, and German
- French: Le temps guérit toutes les blessures (literally: Time heals all wounds)
- Spanish: El tiempo todo lo cura (literally: Time cures everything)
- Japanese: 時が全てを癒す (Toki ga subete wo iyasu) (literally: Time heals everything)
- German: Die Zeit heilt alle Wunden (literally: Time heals all wounds)
More proverbs about Wisdom
- Where there is smoke, there is fire — Rumors or signs usually indicate some truth.
- Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day — Teaching someone is more valuable than doing things for them.
- All that glitters is not gold — Appearances can be misleading.
- The best things in life are free — The most valuable experiences don't cost money.
- If it ain't broke, don't fix it — Don't change something that's working well.
- Money doesn't grow on trees — Money is hard to earn and should be spent wisely.