1.
Life and love go on, let the music play.
Johnny Cash
'Let the melody of life and love continue.'
2.
Don't re-open old wounds in order to examine their origins. Leave them healed.
Richard Bandler
3.
Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.
George R. R. Martin
4.
Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed
Iyanla Vanzant
5.
The process of healing also needs to include the pursuit of truth, not for the sake of opening old wounds, but rather as a necessary means of promoting justice, healing and unity.
Pope Francis
6.
Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds may have to be unbound, and old scars pointed to with pride, to prove to ourselves we have been brave and noble.
Eugene O'Neill
7.
The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.
Cesare Pavese
8.
Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.
Marquis de Sade
9.
Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.
Lance Armstrong
10.
You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people. But until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed.
Iyanla Vanzant
11.
Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.
Tony Benn
13.
I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
Bradford Cox