Top 100 Life Scars Quotes
#1. Life scars the writer but he is not without weapons of vengeance. The art of fiction is a prism that he can use to refract human experience. That one can write about something gives him courage to endure it; that he has written about it brings him, if not deeper understanding, some kind of peace.
Kerima Polotan
#2. Youth is no protection; in the end, life scars us all.
C.W. Gortner
#3. Ranger was not husband material. He was a heart-stopping handsome Latino, dark-skinned and dark-eyed. He was strong inside and out, an enigma who kept his life scars pretty much hidden.
Janet Evanovich
#4. Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.
Joan D. Vinge
#5. My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.
Steve Maraboli
#6. Scars are badges of honors. They tell people you've lived a full life
Lizzy Ford
#7. Hide the scars, let us pretend. If you burry deep enough, no one can find them.
S.L. Northey
#8. Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.
Suzy Kassem
#9. A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
Stephen King
#10. Rowan knew it was now possible to look directly at Zandra, Zandra the Princess of Jupiter, the one he had loved all his life. He reached out to take her hand. True, he was covered all over with scars and scratches and stitches, but then, in a way, so was she. The end.
Phoebe Stone
#11. Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#12. Success demands a price that only a few are willing to pay ... blood, flesh, time, money, pride, heartbreak and energy. Anyone who has ever succeeded has the battle scars to prove the sacrifices they've made.
Toni Sorenson
#13. My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.
Simone De Beauvoir
#14. I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up.
He called it his second smile.
Holly Black
#15. You are afraid to let anyone in, but you still leave the door open, hoping someone good will shut the door behind him and throw away the keys.
Jenim Dibie
#16. Maybe your past isn't perfect. Maybe it was brutal. Maybe you were brutal. Maybe you've got more scars than you thought one skin could hold. You can't linger on those thoughts. You will drown in them. After all, it's only an interesting backstory if you can get past it.
Jessica Hagy
#17. Life leaves scars. Sometimes you don't see them until later. Sometimes you don't know where they've come from. Sometimes they fade before your eyes. But the world leaves its mark on us.
Karina Halle
#18. Scars remind us we can live life without fear because no matter what happens, we'll heal. We'll get better.
Lindsey Fairleigh
#19. Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.
Bell Hooks
#20. 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
#21. Life does pack a punch. But it's the scars that make us who we are, that tell the story of the life we lived.
Adriana Locke
#22. It took me one look to fall in love with her. One look to want to know everything and anything about her. One look to feel protective of her, like my life depended on it. One look to want to kill whoever gave her those scars.
Sarah Brianne
#23. It was the first time in her life that she considered clothing as a method of camoflaging our scars, the traumas of our lives.
Nickolas Butler
#24. Life goes on but the scars remain.
Lil' Wayne
#25. If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand - always.
Storm Constantine
#26. Loving you is kissing the night, exposing the scars, words in flames, for every drop and for every life.
Gwen Calvo
#28. You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.
Jodi Picoult
#29. Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.'
'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory in the next.
Regina Doman
#30. Master of Life is the person who is best at keeping the brutal scars of life to a minimum!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#31. Everybody breaks sooner or later, Bob. Anyone can drown. Sometimes you see it. Most often, you
don't because the body protects and the skin hides, so drowning doesn't look like drowning and some
people scar so nicely. Take it from an expert.
Ilsa J. Bick
#32. It's our scars that define us, Sara. Diego has to live life to appreciate life." "Yes." A knot forms in my stomach at the idea that I still don't know how deeply Chris's scars define him.
Lisa Renee Jones
#33. You dig deep beyond those scars and find that soft tissue again, and you massage and nurture it and bring it to life, little by little, through serving yourself well. I did it through hikes and vitamins and therapy and prayer and good friends.
Katy Perry
#35. It's called an inner voice for a reason. It's the gnawing feeling inside your stomach telling you yes or no. It's the one voice in your life that isn't tampered by other's biased opinions, scars, feelings or thoughts. Go with it, you know yourself better than anyone ever does.
Hope Alcocer
#36. Who has not raised a tombstone, here and there, over buried hopes and dead joys, on the road of life? Like the scars of the heart, they are not to be obliterated.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#38. I yearn to make these scars disappear
And to forget about the past.
To throw away all of my fears
And to be happy at last.
Atarah L. Poling
#39. Many people feel like they were born into the wrong family. Nevertheless, adults must take responsiblity for the pain of the past and create a productive life in the present.
James P. Krehbiel
#40. From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."
Craig Scott
#42. The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."
pg 337
Veronica Roth
#43. Life for all its gains
pierces in ways that leave scars,
where I've bled, I've lived
Jim Ross
#44. All parents make mistakes. They're only human, so all of us grow up with at least a few invisible scars. But maybe that's okay, because the hard times are what make us strong enough to survive all the crap life throws at us down the road.
Alexa Land
#45. Don't be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear.
Ashly Lorenzana
#46. Hate isn't the opposite of love, apathy is. Hating doesn't free you from feeling anything. You have to carry it around, using every scar, every little memory like a building block. Like a stone in a wall, until you've created a new person, a new life that you can live with.
Rasmenia Massoud
#47. All these scars. The road map of my life. My armor.
Richard Kadrey
#48. Fiction is risky for writers also in that the process of making certain books, of shaping certain narratives, leaves scars and marks on your inner life.
Chris Abani
#49. That is how I came to think that heavy and hard was the beginning of living, real living; and though I might not end up with a mark on my cheek, I had no doubt that I would end up with a mark somewhere.
Jamaica Kincaid
#50. We are all of life
who stepped from the sea
trading weightless journeys of the currents
We are all of life
who build and tear down and build again
to find gold and silver
to find scars that weep and bleed
to step from the sea
to stay with the sea
Tamara Rendell
#51. You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.
Chris Fabry
#52. Give it air & let the scar on your soul reveal itself, because, like the body, it too was made to heal itself.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#53. People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.
Bear Grylls
#54. Acheron always says that our scars are there to remind us of out pasts, of where we've been and what we've gone through. But that pain doesn't have to drive or determine our future. We can rise about it if we let ourselves. It's not easy, but nothing in life ever is. -Sundown
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#55. A mature soul filled with scars of life experiences.
Toba Beta
#56. Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations.
Joe Bageant
#57. Some of the imperfections will be visible, but this house has been here a long time. I see no reason to cover up the dings and scars. We've all got 'em.
Chris Coppernoll
#58. They're battle scars of a life lived and tangible evidence of her strength. She made another human being. The weight of that knowledge is heavy.
Eliza Lentzski
#59. 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
#60. How can you make light of it? I says.
What should I do? She says. Cry fer the rest of my life? Molly of the Many Sorrows? ... You got battle scars. This is mine, she says. You know what it tells me? I'm a survivor.
Moira Young
#61. You could spend the rest of your life trying to outlive the scars that are left by what you go through in your formative years.
Todd Edwards
#62. Cut away the nonsense, the drama, the regret, the scars of the past, and make a decision to no longer let them govern your happiness and freedom.
Steve Maraboli
#63. Scars prove that you're still here. That you can move on. Maybe missing a chunk of yourself, but here, goddamn it, surviving.
Ash Parsons
#64. I got shot saving you. That should speak very clearly about my feelings. After all, I'll bear the scars of loving you for the rest of my life.
Shayla Black
#65. I am so far from being a pessimist ... on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.
Eugene O'Neill
#66. Stuff happens when you are a kid; it scars you inside for life.
Corey Haim
#67. I spent my childhood being cut down to fit a space where I never belonged in the first place. I spent the rest of my life searching for someone to tell me what to do with the scars.
Marta Maranda
#68. 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
#69. How had she ever been so ignorant? How right that the body changed over time, becoming a gallery of scars, a canvas of experience, a testament to life and one's capacity to endure it
Janet Fitch
#70. I'd fix it all for you if I could. You know that, right?" He whispers. I wonder if he's talking about my scars or the last four years of my life. "Yes," is all I say. Yes to all of it.
K.A. Tucker
#71. I will not play it safe!
I want to experience the length, depth, and breadth of life.
I'm not just here for the victories... I'm here for the scars.
Steve Maraboli
#73. No one is without troubles, without personal hardships and genuine challenges. That fact may not be obvious because most people don't advertise their woes and heartaches. But nobody, not even the purest heart, escapes life without suffering battle scars.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#74. Our scars are like the rings in a tree trunk, showing its progress through life. How we heal and move forward through adversity . . . that is what makes the difference.
Morgan Rhodes
#75. Don't unzip your chest to show all your scars,
hold it tight with love and let them bloom like flowers.
Debasish Mridha
#76. 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
#77. You reveal me. Then you heal me Of all the scars and strife. And when my life was spinning downward, You caught me. I'd forgotten how to smile, but You re-taught me.
Christine Feehan
#79. Bruises go away, Tyler. Scars stick around to prove you showed up for life. That you lived. That you fought. That you loved.
Adriana Locke
#80. Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite.
Umair Haque
#81. If love is a battlefield and we all get scars ... These were my reminders ... my necessary thorns.
Sabrina Childress
#82. We all have scars, my beautiful one. They make us who we are, and if we let them, they bring us together.
Jocelyn Green
#83. He'd almost died and seeing the proof of his knife wounds, hearing him describe the incident that had almost taken his life, rattled her so much.
With him still holding her wrist, she bent awkwardly and pressed her lips against the worst of his scars.
Virna DePaul
#84. This life requires scars. Some are more obvious than others, and some are only on the inside. What matters is how you spend your time during the good parts.
T.S. Joyce
#85. No one escapes this life without scars ... not even God.
Michelle Griep
#86. Celebrate every success but don't forget to enjoy those scars of failures.
Debasish Mridha
#87. Scars are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be learned from ... evidence of wounds ... wounds inflicted of mistakes ... wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mistakes again.
Marcia Lynn McClure
#88. Scars heal, glory fades, and all we're left with are the memories made. pain hurts, but only for a minute. life is short, so go on and live it.
Chris Cagle
#89. They say the face tells all there is to know about a life, but I personally believe much can be deduced from the hands. There are lines and scars, bumps and calluses; indeed, the hands are both the sketch and the final work of art.
Jacqueline Winspear
#90. I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scars.
Alex Garland
#91. To me, I see scars of courage. Inflicting them gave him the strength to survive the pain that's plagued him all his life. I'm grateful to every one of them because he's still here, with me.
Nicola Haken
#92. 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
#94. Life's not easy for anyone. Everyone has scars they're afraid to show and we all get slammed headfirst into a proverbial locker from time to time by someone bigger and badder.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#95. Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.
Jon Foreman
#96. I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life's dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#97. Things have their way of staying with you forever, haunting your sleep and giving you false hope.
Diyar Harraz
#98. Alan had never been stabbed or shot or punctured or broken. Were scars the best evidence of living? If we have not survived something, and thus were certain that we'd lived, we could scar ourselves, couldn't we?
Dave Eggers
#99. 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
#100. The more challenges life deals us, the more scars experiences give us, the higher we go, the better we get.
Vinita Kinra
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