Healing Quotes

We don’t get to pick the things that fix us, Red. Make us whole. Make us feel purpose. My moment of clarity? It came from the strangest of places.

Why does healing have to be the only goal? Why can’t we be as furious as we feel? Don’t we have that right?[to Moira]

Making other people hurt won’t erase your suffering. The only way for you to heal is to face your trauma.

I’ve destroyed so many things. Please, just let me help heal something for once. I’m meant for this.[to Vesemir]

They say time heals all wounds. It’s a nice idea. At least I used to think so. The truth is a little more complicated. Healing is a full-time job, and throughout the process, you’re never quite yourself. All you want is to be better, but that will only come once you pay the price: time. What no one tells you, though, is how much time it’s gonna take. How long until you heal. How long until you feel normal again, until you get your confidence back. You’re not sure you ever will, fully. And it feels like an injustice. But at some point, you have to decide that who you are now, it’s gonna have to be enough.

There is a wound that won’t heal at the center of the galaxy. There is a darkness reaching like rust into everything around us. We let it grow, and now it’s here. It’s here, and it’s not visiting anymore. It wants to stay.

You wish to heal Middle-earth? Heal yourself.[to Sauron]

You can’t heal something unless you’re brave enough to say it out loud.[to Joel]

There will be times when the fact of her absence overwhelms you. And you will weep. But this will happen less and less, I promise. She is dead. You are alive. So live.[to Orpheus, about Eurydice]

There are some wounds magic can’t heal.[to Geralt]

The truth is there is only one way forward. One way to move on. We gotta work through what was.

Perhaps the biggest hole is the one left from betrayal. Deceit, lies, distrust. And this hole that we carry, this deep, deep pain, is one that only we can heal ourselves. Because once the person who deceived us gets away with it, that pain never goes away.