I Have Scars Quotes

#1. I like it better that people aren't throwing stuff at my face and trying to fight me on stage. Like in the '80s, it was just aggravating all the time. I have scars from cigars and cigarettes on me, Bic pens, burns from cigarette lighters, all that.

Henry Rollins

#2. I have scars. No one alive today doesn't. But Alex's scars have to be much deeper than mine.

Susan Beth Pfeffer

#3. I have scars from every film I have made. There is nothing to protect actors. They treat you worse than a dog. You work like a slave, and you know, I like it. That is the way it should be. Every film should be like your last.

Golshifteh Farahani

#4. You're calling Illium a pretty boy?" Elena snorted, glad to focus on something other than the heavy cloud of death that hung over the city. "Have you looked in a mirror lately?"

"I have scars, like any respectable male.

Nalini Singh

#5. I have scars on the backs of my arms from dressers in Paris scraping me with pins as I was taking a shirt or gown off.

Tyra Banks

#6. I have scars on my hands from touching certain people ... Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me.

J.D. Salinger

#7. Scars are a reminder - a history or a memory stamped right onto your skin. I feel like I should have something stamped all over mine. On every single piece of me.

Beckie Stevenson

#8. I shake my head, but I can't change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.

Ann Aguirre

#9. I understood now: how nothing looked more beautiful than that scar of his, that borderline that separated what Jacob could have been had he stayed in that orphanage from who he is.

Justina Chen

#10. I have no real tattoos. I wear my bruises and tons of scars as my tattoos.

Kellan Lutz

#11. Thunderdome will never be boring so I'll have fresh battle scars when I die.

Jenn Cooksey

#12. Each day after class lets out,each morning before it begins, i sit at the school piano and make my hands work. in spite of the pain, in spite of the stiffness and scars. i make my hands play piano.i have practiced my best piece over and over till my arms throb.

Karen Hesse

#13. Priests and nuns have had their chance with me. I'm still wearing the scars to prove it.) And so, during the weekend recess, the Meiers invited Cullivan to eat Sunday dinner with the prisoner in his cell. The opportunity to entertain his friend, play host

Truman Capote

#14. There are some scars we carry that nobody ever sees. I believe that. Do you? We all have them, I'm sure. Sins that can never be forgiven. Hurts that will not heal. Pains that plague us in the dark hours - that mark our souls forever. And scorch our hearts?

Kelly Gardiner

#15. Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.

Cheryl Rainfield

#16. I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to get freaked out about it because people thought it was a pimple. But those are the things I've become really comfortable with as I've gotten older. My scars.

Rosario Dawson

#17. This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.

Lewis Black

#18. In a few breaths' time I will speak some sad words to you. But you must hear them the same way we have agreed to see scars now. Sad words are just another beauty ...

Chris Cleave

#19. I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.

Richard Siken

#20. It's okay to have impossible goals, because if you follow your unreachable star no matter how hopeless or far, your heart will be peaceful when you're dead, even though you might be scorned and covered with scars like I am while you're still alive.

Ruth Ozeki

#21. I have these obsessions that I do not completely understand, with the deep mark, with the ruptured surface, with scars and traces, traces that human beings are leaving on the earth. It is not a comment on the environment ... it is metaphysical.

Sophie Ristelhueber

#22. I can heal the scars on your body, but I can't heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them

Anne Bishop

#23. For me, the most interesting people seem to have the bumpiest pasts. I prefer to connect with someone who has experienced the struggles, battles, and casualties of life's journey. There is beauty, wisdom, and truth to be found in the scars.

Steve Maraboli

#24. No one need punish me for any wrongs, real or imagined. I am very good at doing it all by myself. I have the scars to prove it.

Katharine O'Shea

#25. Does anybody know how I feel?
Sometimes I'm numb ...
Sometimes I'm overcome ...
Does anybody care what's going on?
Do I have to wear my scars
Like a badge on my arm?
For you to see me
I need to release

ZOEgirl

#26. I'm basically a sexless geek. Look at me, I have pasty-white skin, I have acne scars and I'm five-foot-nothing. Does that sound like a real sexual dynamo to you?

Mike Myers

#27. I bear many scars. But I also carry with me moments that would not have happened if I had not gone beyond my limits.

Paulo Coelho

#28. I'm not as hard on myself anymore. I'm comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me until I was 34 years old! I still have things I'm really insecure about, but I've changed by loving me - C-section scars, stretch marks, and all.

Jenny McCarthy

#29. Thus far we have been able to protect [our children] from the deep and enduring traumas that scar the minds and selves of so many of the patients I see. How - how? - can I make it always so?

Christine Montross

#30. I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life.

Paulo Coelho

#31. I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

Angela Carter

#32. I hope you aren't too ugly. What a collection of scars you have. Be grateful. Our scars have the ability to give us the reality that our past is real. - Red Dragon

Anonymous

#33. The door slams in response, and I laugh. I'm glad she can laugh. It means she really is coping. I know she's internalizing a lot, though. Putting on a show for me. She'll have new scars on her wrists soon.

Jasinda Wilder

#34. Home is part of us. It's in the scars we have on our knees and elbows, in the memories that surface when we sleep. I don't think you can ever really leave.

Kristin Hannah

#35. Sometimes I get mail for people who lived in my home before I did, and sometimes my own body seems like a home through which successive people have passed like tenants, leaving behind memories, habits, scars, skills, and other souvenirs.

Rebecca Solnit

#36. My body was heading into a flare. I paced a bit, tried to remember how to breathe right, how to calm my skin. But it blared at me. Sometimes my scars have a mind of their own.

Gillian Flynn

#37. My heart, soul, body, and mind all have scars that will never properly heal. Still I survived.

Damien Echols

#38. I have actual acting scars.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#39. I don't find you ugly, Hunter. No one who knew you could." Her voice was achingly soft. "If anything, I'm grateful that you have these scars, because they saved you for me - for this moment in time. And that's a little selfish of me, isn't it? And yet I can't help but feel that way.

Jessica Clare

#40. It's never come easy for me. I don't think my mind allows me to rest ever. I have, I think, a chip on my shoulder, and some deep scars that I don't think were healed.

Tom Brady

#41. A lot of my wounds have healed. They have left scars, and I can either hide my scars, put a long sleeve shirt on, and cover them up. Or, I can show them off and say, "Yeah, it happened."

LeCrae

#42. What you have to understand is that my thing is not glamour. I love stretch marks and C-section scars and all of that. I'm a grown man. You don't gotta put on no makeup with me.

Tracy Morgan

#43. So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

Rich Mullins

#44. I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.

Natalie Cole

#45. I have seven scars from having moles removed. One was a melanoma, six were precancerous. Get your moles checked!

Jennifer Morrison

#46. I got a body covered in scars, but then who doesn't? If you don't have a few scars, you haven't really lived.

Lexi Blake

#47. If you do as I tell you, you'll have nothing but smooth silver scars to show the ladies how brave you are.

Patrick Rothfuss

#48. I have a lot of mental scars from being brought up Catholic and being sent to Catholic school for 13 years!

Mat McNerney

#49. Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and be missing one eye.

Max Barry

#50. My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out.

Brett Hull

#51. I don't have a weapon in my hand, and I don't have a uniform on my body, but my uniform now is my scars and weapon is my words, so I'm still serving.

J. R. Martinez

#52. In return, Giovanni told me that empathizing Italians say L'ho provato sulla mia pelle, which means 'I have experienced that on my own skin.' Meaning, I have also been burned or scarred in this way, and I know exactly what you're going through.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#53. You really need stitches," she tells me."Or you're going to have a scar." I try not to laugh. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broken with me is on the inside. "I can handle scars, especially one's on the outside.

Jessica Sorensen

#54. I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you.

Nick Nolte

#55. We have our agreement about scars, I know, but this time I looked away because sometime you can see too much beauty.

Chris Cleave

#56. Don't fret none, darlin'. I got your back."
"You said that in Budapest. I still have the scars, too.

Shelly Laurenston

#57. Over the years, I've had about 80 stitches in my head and face from football incidents and bar incidents, so I have lots of scars. I don't think I look intimidating, but I'm sure other people have their opinions.

Vinnie Jones

#58. Just because my scars aren't visible doesn't mean I don't have them.

Michelle Watson

#59. I think you should leave [the scar]. [...] It's not as bad as you think. It will look better once it is healed. And besides, you already have a classical beauty. This gives you a romantic beauty as well.

April Adams

#60. I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I'm so fair.

Dolly Parton

#61. The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, "Of course, just show us your scars." The man says, "I have no scars". St. Peter says, "What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for"?

Martin Sheen

#62. I'm sorry. (Valerius) It's okay. We all have scars. I'm just lucky most of mine are on the outside. (Tabitha)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#63. We all have scars and ghosts of our own. Some drove us to the Scarlet Guard, and some were because of it. I know the sting of both.

Victoria Aveyard

#64. Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.

J.K. Rowling

#65. I was sexually abused by my step father for years and years, and that caused scars you can't see. And we know many people have the kind of scars you can't see.

Bonnie St. John

#66. By the light," he said, when he had mastered himself. "I think that beats singing a lullaby to a stormdog for simplicity and economy, Maerad. But I wish I had known that you simply had to blow at Hulls to get rid of them. It would have saved me a few scars.

Alison Croggon

#67. You keep distracting from the main point, Vaida. I did not come to Harare to study other people's scars. I have my own to worry about. They make me sick. I will never recover from the events that carved them into my body. You should focus on healing yours instead of creating new ones.

Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

#68. I carry with me many scars, but I also carry with me moments that would not have happened if I had not dared to go beyond my limits

Paulo Coelho

#69. I don't want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that no one will love you if you aren't perfect, it leaves scars.

Jane Fonda

#70. No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.

C.S. Lewis

#71. I still have the scars from when they captured me and beat me in the middle of the street."
"You don't get scars."
"Emotional scars then.

Amy Tintera

#72. You Are My Drunkenness
You are my drunkenness ...
I did not sober up, as if I can do that;
I don't want to anyway.
I have a headache, my knees are full of scars
I am in mud all around
I struggle to walk towards your hesitant light.

Nazim Hikmet

#73. I have some scars ... lots of internal ones. But they're all scabbed over.

Chaka Khan

#74. It was a light that shone over our faces, our wounds and scars. It was a light so brilliant and white it could have been beamed from heaven, and Brian and I could have been angels, basking in it. But it wasn't, and we weren't.

Scott Heim

#75. But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be
one big scar of a love gone wrong.

Amanda Grace

#76. I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for all kinds of scars.

Carly Simon

#77. To me, he is art, poetry for the eyes and heart. He is the most terrifyingly beautiful guy I have ever seen. And his scars have to tell a story ...

Jessica Sorensen

#78. He touched you-Noah. He saw your scars, didn't flinch, and then he touched them."
"I'm going to sound like a real dick, but i wouldn't have been able to do that. Touch them or pretend they weren't there. I thought i could, but ...

Katie McGarry

#79. If I could have taken Ari's pain, I would. Pain and scars, however, were the two things everyone carried themselves.

J.C. Nelson

#80. I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique

Catherine Fisher

#81. But I keep thinking love should be like a tree. You look at trees and they've got bumps and scars from tumors, infestations, what have you, but they're still growing. Despite the bumps and bruises, they're--straight.

Lorrie Moore