Can anybody explain the meaning of the last sentence?

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This is a sentence from the movie Lord of the rings..

How do you pick up threads of an old life?. How do you go on..when in your heart you begin to understand.. there is no going back?..There are some things that time can't mend. Some hurts that go too deep.. that have taken hold..

I am not getting the meaning of the sentence written in bold.

Can anyone explain me in detail?

This is my first question on this site.

BarbaraPA · Accepted Answer

Hi Harry, and welcome.

Some things happen that cause you so much pain (emotional pain) that you will never properly heal. The memories and long-term effects of those wrongs become part of you.

LouiseT · Answer

Hello Harry1999 and welcome to English forums[<:o)]

harry1999Some hurts that go too deep.. that have taken hold..

For me this means that there are some injuries that rest in the person for a long time. A broken heart for example is not a physical injury but it can take a long time to recover. Whilst the pain is not physical it can be felt deeply.

In the Lord of the Rings the characters there saw terrible things that would stay with them for ever and they had suffered the loss of friends or family that would also hurt for a long time.

Harry1999 · Answer

Thanks a lot LouiseT!! I understood. Thanks.... <img class='emoticon' style='Width:19px;Height:19px;' data-delaysrc='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/2.gif' src='https://uat-englishforward-forums-backend.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Emoticons/2.gif' alt='Emotion: big smile'/>

Harry1999 · Answer

Thanks Grammar Geek.. I have understood now. Thanks once again..

Anonymous · Answer

A person's soul or spirit (for want of a better word) can be diminished by a given event which destroys

one of their core beliefs at a fundamental level . In the sense that you now see "reality" more clearly a

trade off for this loss is more wisdom .

Anonymous · Answer

The quest for the Ring is an allegory for World War II. Frodo is a synecdoche for the Allied soldiers who, even though they were victorious, even though they saved their homes, and even though they made it back, were never the same again. There are some traumas from which people can’t move on. There are some chapters in our lives from which we can never turn the page. There are some things that, after they happen, we live under their shadow forever.

Frodo being stabbed by the ring wraiths is a symbol for shrapnel, which itself represents the lingering vestiges of a quest that led a generation of soldiers away from the lives they knew to a war that, even for those who made it onto planes and ships bound for that same place, never quite managed to make it back home.

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