Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt of separation loses its real limits. With time, the desired body will soon disappear, and if the desiring body has already ceased to exist for the other, then what remains is a wound, disembodied.
Interpretation
Time may help alleviate pain, but it doesn't truly heal emotional wounds.
This quote by Chris Marker explores the complex relationship between time and emotional pain. It suggests that while time can soften the edges of hurt caused by separation, it cannot completely heal the wounds associated with deep emotional loss. The passage highlights the idea that the impact of separation lingers within us, unaffected by the passage of time, leading to a disembodied sense of loss and desire that endures even as the pain shifts over time.
In practice
In a speech about coping with loss, one might say, 'As Chris Marker poignantly stated, time heals everything - except wounds.'
I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?
Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.
It is many times with a fraudulent Design that men stick their corrupt Doctrine with the Cloves of other mens Wit.
...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.