Quotes About Scars

#1. Well, I worked in a sheet metal factory once and scarred my wrist from the cuts. I found a sympathetic psychiatrist who told the draft board I was insane. We used the scars as proof of a suicide attempt.

Tom Verlaine

#2. I'm a grown woman. I've earned my experiences, my scars.

Tori Amos

#3. 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

#4. No one escapes this life without scars ... not even God.

Michelle Griep

#5. Sometimes even doing the right thing will leave you with scars. But beauty comes from ashes, too. And I know that to be true.

Natalie Lloyd

#6. Celebrate every success but don't forget to enjoy those scars of failures.

Debasish Mridha

#7. That was the goth stage, where I decided I'd never get the girl of my dreams because of my scars. Not to mention my hairstyle. (pause) But then she slammed a door handle into my gut. And when a girl does that to a boy, it means she likes him.

Lisa McMann

#8. The scars of others should teach us caution.

St. Jerome

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

Hannibal

#10. Guileless and without vanity,we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our own skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.

Toni Morrison

#11. 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

#12. The marks we leave are too often scars.

John Green

#13. When I walk the streets I want to call to the spirits that are mine and know they will love me not only for my scars.

Luisa A. Igloria

#14. Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

Pamela Hansford Johnson

#15. 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

#16. The love of the family, the love of one person, can heal. It heals the scars left by society. A massive, powerful society.

Maya Angelou

#17. You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth.

Jane Fonda

#18. Time only changes the outside of things. It scars the rocks and snarls the trees, but the heart inside remains the same." - Charles M. Russell

Russell Rowland

#19. Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments. Only later do they make themselves known, from their scars. - Chris Marker

Zeina Abirached

#20. I am still trying to glue together the broken pieces of this person I love. He manages his tortured side with remarkable skill, but even Chris, with his endless supply of strength and clarity, could not survive all that he did without scars.

Jessica Park

#21. Boiling anger burns. Sticks to people like hot melted sugar. Scars and blisters.

Thomas Wymark

#22. But while Sam may not know what happened, he's witnessed the scars. Not the physical scar, but the emotional ones. And those are far deeper. ****

Danielle Pearl

#23. They said the doctors could tell from the scars."
"Stop."
"Scars can tell you how old the wound is."
"Stop."
"When I stopped going to school, they came and found me. They found me in the closet."
"Sarah.

Amy Reed

#24. Painful experiences are like scars in our minds. Some have healed and been forgotten. Others are there as a reminder of what we have been through ...

James A. Murphy

#25. He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.

David Finkel

#26. we're all veterans of a fucked-up world. No one gets out without their scars. Some of us just hide them better than others." She

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#27. Secrets are like scars. The cut may no longer be there, but the scar's white line tells a story. Unless you share it, it's like you're hiding a part of yourself the whole world can already see. They may not know the how or the why, but they see it just the same.

Robin M. King

#28. Could scars be beautiful? Because Shane's were.

Dez Burke

#29. The old creation lives by pride and retribution: I stand up for myself, and if someone gets in my way I try to get even. We've been there, done that, and got the scars to prove it.

N. T. Wright

#30. Come, drink the mystic wine of Night, Brimming with silence and the stars; While earth, bathed in this holy light, Is seen without its scars.

Louis Untermeyer

#31. When I said you're mine, I meant it. Remember? I saw what I mean. I chose scars and all.

J.J. McAvoy

#32. I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar.

Danilo Kis

#33. It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut.

William Shakespeare

#34. A broken heart can never be perfectly mended, there are always scars.

Elisabeth Zguta

#35. 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

#36. You might be adding a new scar to your collection, but it kind of matches the one on this side of your mouth, so at least they'll be symmetrical."
"I don't mind the scars." He shrugged, his eyes taking on a mischievous spark. "They hold better memories now than they used to.

Marissa Meyer

#37. Once your heart has been broken, it's never really heals. The wounds may heal, but the scars remain there forever. That delicate tissue must be guarded and protected at all cost.

K. Langston

#38. Please don't trouble yourself with my scars. At least not right now, OK?

Alex Rosa

#39. Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast an eye not on the marred exterior, but to be fixed on the glorious interior.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#40. One can grow accustomed to carrying unseeable scars, as if the tattoo one wears is inked in flesh tone over flesh tone; but nevertheless one is still covered in secret, painted with secret, stained by it.

Lyndsay Faye

#41. Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

Jodi Picoult

#42. I think maybe that is what love is. Seeing beyond the scars, to the person below the surface.

Cathy Maxwell

#43. They each had scars to deal with. Scars of a different kind, but scars nonetheless. If he could say something--anything--to make a difference, he'd do it, but there simply wasn't anything left to say. The reality of that made him downright sad.

Emily March

#44. Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief.

Jesmyn Ward

#45. All your mistakes, all your scars, everything you've done wrong, that's what makes us who we are.

Christopher Herz

#46. Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?

Jodi Picoult

#47. Everyone deserved a person who could look into their eyes and say, You're enough. You're perfect, scars and all.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#48. To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again.

Dean Koontz

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

Jenn Cooksey

#50. Some of us can begin to heal the damage people have done to us by escaping the situation, but some of us need more than that. Tattoos make statements that need to be made. Or hide things that are no one's business. Your scars are battle wounds, but you don't see them that way. Yet.

Tammara Webber

#51. We're not wounded, Liis. We're matching scars.

Jamie McGuire

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

Kellan Lutz

#53. The Scars You Love There are a million ways to bleed. But you are by far my favourite.

Pleasefindthis

#54. Yeah, why tell the public the truth? said Harry, clenching his knife so tightly that the faint scars on the back of his right hand stood out, white against his skin: I must not tell lies.

J.K. Rowling

#55. But even things that heal leave scars.

Diana Gabaldon

#56. 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

#57. With Damien's back bared before him, he could now see the subtle stamp of scars under the kirin, a lifetime of pain drowned beneath ink and determination.

Rhys Ford

#58. 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

#59. As long as we bear these scars we will always be reminded.

S.A. Rolls

#60. Those scars are not your fault. You have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. Your mom definitely does and possibly your dad, but you? Nothing ...

Katie McGarry

#61. You want to know how I got these scars. I swallowed my pride and then it crawled its way out of my mouth.

Rudy Francisco

#62. 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

#63. To show you all my scars, is not to tell you that this Dunya would always leave you wounded, and bruised, and on knees, but to show you that see, healing is always possible. Healing is easy. Healing is beautiful.

Khadija Rupa

#64. 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

#65. No matter how long it takes to heal ... we share the same scars ...

Daniel Yanez

#66. by opening our hearts, revealing our scars, we are made human and flawed and whole." He

Mark T. Sullivan

#67. The only thing that can last longer than the scars we all carry, is the love that makes it bearable. Beautiful and broken, we are beloved.

Perci T. Brooks

#68. The craggy lines that made up the character in his face now seemed like scars of defeat, inflicted on him over time.

R.D. Ronald

#69. 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

#70. I saw darkness in her beauty, and she saw beauty in my darkness. Yin and yang. Black and white. Beauty and scars; fury and forgiveness. She should've been my nemesis, but in her, I found something I didn't know I was looking for.

Keri Lake

#71. 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

#72. Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#73. The shop was a monument to uninhibited human depravity, the kind that scars souls with permanent shadows. I

Bobby Adair

#74. My real interest is traveling the world's tormented places and revealing the scars and the traces on the ground. I am dedicated to the earth.

Sophie Ristelhueber

#75. Scars are not shameful, not unless you let them be. If you do not wear them, they will wear you.

V.E Schwab

#76. 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

#77. Because his memory is so selective, he has no scars from prior experience, said Vinny.

Michael Lewis

#78. Touch all of your scars and remember their birthdays, remind yourself how far you've come.

Key Ballah

#79. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations ...

Toni Morrison

#80. And what about you-the rest of you-did you notice the scars you left behind? No. Probably not. Because most of them can't be seen with the naked eye.

Jay Asher

#81. 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

#82. 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

#83. Tracy's words had pierced through her daughter's skin like a sharp razor blade with scars that would remain with her for years to come.

Valenciya Lyons

#84. Tell Youth to play with Wine and Love and never bear away the scars! I may as well tilt up the sky and yet try not to spill the stars.

Ridgely Torrence

#85. I saw his scars - the visible ones-and saw how breaking him had not made him any less beautiful. If anything, he stood stronger, because he'd survived.

David Levithan

#86. Christ's resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now.

Timothy Keller

#87. Scars might heal and we might forget about them in time, but they're permanent. Not even Jesus lost his scars.

Sylvain Reynard

#88. 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

#89. I am more than my scars.

Andrew Davidson

#90. For you can grieve your heart out and in the end you are still where you were. All your grief hasn't changed a thing. What you have lost will not be returned to you. It will always be lost. You're only left with your scars to mark the void. All you can choose to do is go on or not.

Charles Frazier

#91. I was covered in scars from the beatings, and she used to say it was a hockey ... She'd apologize. She was on pain. I understand that now, but you don't when you are three and four and you're being beaten to death with a hoover.

Brenda Fricker

#92. We mistakenly measure strength by comparing battle scars, when the truly strong among us are those who know the battle is never really over.

Esther Mitchell

#93. 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

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

Cormac McCarthy

#95. One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

Miguel De Cervantes

#96. 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

#97. Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.

Erin McCarthy

#98. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

Angelina Jolie

#99. He'd been raised to give women what they wanted. 'You can fight,' his father told him. 'You can bitch. If you're a real prick, you can overpower. But the pain over the long haul ... just not worth it, son. Surrender young and happily with fewer scars.' The old man was right about that.

Lisa Unger

#100. I think that facing your own ugliness ... and trying to change yourself
turning your scars into strengths ... is very strong and beautiful.

Minari Endou