Past Scars Quotes

#1. I do still get shocked every once in a while when I catch my reflection when I'm walking past a glass building, but it's in my mind about getting older and finding out what I'm going to look like as it unfolds - or as it folds, depending on where the marks and scars land.

Dave Matthews

#2. Funny how internal scars never healed. They were the souvenirs of the past.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#3. Our past is what shapes us, the scars it leaves behind mold us, and what we do with the shit that's left over is what defines us.

Gail McHugh

#4. Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far, did you lose yourself somewhere out there, did you get to be a star, and don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are?

John Rzeznik

#5. The scars are a way of reminding me that the past is real. They are honorable.

Patrick Califia

#6. There are people out there that will be able to see past your scars to the girl inside.

Kelly Oram

#7. 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

#8. Time heals the wounds of the past,
Apology, forgiveness, and acceptance
does lighten the scars.

Rhoendyl RCruz

#9. Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were around growing up

Quetzal

#10. Your past was the same as your skin: with you for life, both the proverbial beauty marks . . . and the scars.

J.R. Ward

#11. Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Cormac McCarthy

#12. Count your salted wounds then name them
like the stars of a bright constellation
Count your scars and bruises then give them
the wings of forgiveness to fly

Malak El Halabi

#13. Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower of tree the hermit tatters of old bark split down and strip to end the season; and can be quiet and not look for reasons past the edge of reason.

Judith Wright

#14. And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.

Hannibal

#15. Some part of him had hoped that a woman might one day see beyond his scars to the man he was inside. But Megan was doing more than just ignoring his ugliness. She was _accepting_ it with a woman's gentleness, her touch soothing memories of savage pain, grief, loneliness.

Pamela Clare

#16. Our scars make us know that our past was for real

Jane Austen

#17. I tear my heart open, I sew myself shut
My weakness is that I care too much
And my scars remind me that the past is real
I tear my heart open just to feel

Papa Roach

#18. Though Roose had been in battles, he bore no scars. Though well past forty, he was as yet unwrinkled, with scarce a line to tell of the passage of time.

George R R Martin

#19. Why the war paint, Pix?
Because I can't stand the girl underneath....
"Why the tattoos ?"
Because I can't bear seeing the scars of my past.

Tillie Cole

#20. Being around him felt like being around someone who saw your scars and called them beautiful when you only saw your past mistakes.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#21. Sometimes it's the scars that remind you that you survived. Sometimes the scars tell you that you have healed.

Ashley D. Wallis

#22. 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

#23. When some people in the crowd act shocked or repulsed, Diamond calmly tells them her scars are part of her past, part of what made her who she is.

Cheryl Rainfield

#24. It's easier to forget the past if nothing ever reminds you of those leathery old scars that can never again feel any loss or pain; the old wounds must be kept open if you are going to remember their cause and regret their occurrence.

Peter Robinson

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. The wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ...

John Geddes

#28. Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

China Mieville

#29. To people who think I'm happy, just look again; the scars of my past will lead you to a place no one knows, a place no other person can imagine, a place that echoes with the desolate cries of a lonely heart, a place where I'm being stabbed to death hundreds of times.

Manoj Kumar Duppala

#30. The terror takes you. The cage is locked and the curtain drawn. Fingers dance along as blades, carving memories into your flesh that will leave scars long past being healed.

Amanda Steele

#31. Only a few hairline fractures around his eyes and lips spoke of the torment he'd been through. I wanted to smooth those lines away, and wished it was that easy to erase the scars of our past." ~ Muse, Drowning In The Dark #4 The Veil Series.

Pippa DaCosta

#32. 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