Top 52 Scab Quotes
#1. Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly.
Janet Malcolm
#2. My grief had become a thick scab; I picked at it from time to time, but mostly I left it alone. I didn't want to know what was underneath.
Marshall Thornton
#3. I was betrayed, one more day, of my short life.
You were carried away, had no shame, to suffocate my being.
I was me, but you weren't you.
You were sticking to me like a scab.
So, I peeled you away...
Bled for days...
And stepped out of myself.
Pantera
#4. The rhythm of researching and querying holds all the fascination, endorphins, and residual scarring of picking a scab. It's a habit I easily fall into but without more than surface level ambition driving it can turn into a haphazard, oozing mess.
S. Kelley Harrell
#5. It occurs to me if we kissed now, we'd be like a folded map of America. My Pennsylvania scab next to her New Jersey black eye. I wonder, then, how many other kids could join in. Where are the Montanas and the Colorados? Where is the Vermont? Florida? How many maps would we make?
A.S. King
#6. Why do I do it, when it always hurts me? Why must we test the pain? Tongue the ulcer, rub the blister, pick the scab?
Joe Abercrombie
#7. It was, for the most part, your typical large city: a scab of nobles, wealthy merchants, and shipping tycoons crusted over a great messy wound of laborers and peons.
Edward W. Robertson
#8. It doesn't get better," I said. "The pain. The wounds scab over and you don't always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you'll never be the same.
Katie McGarry
#9. My youth is like a scab: under it there is a wound that every day leaks blood. It disfigures me.
Gottfried Benn
#10. I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over."
I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?"
That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it.
Charlaine Harris
#11. The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country - a border culture.
Gloria E. Anzaldua
#12. Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In men, it seldom heals and often grows septic.
Michael Ayrton
#13. One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession.
Michael Parenti
#15. Forgiving yourself can prove as difficult as licking a scab off your elbow.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#16. I think now that if all eight billion of us had just shut off the lights and gone to bed that night and left it alone we'd have all slept and the chalice would have passed us by. But let's be real. Whoever leaves anything alone? Life's a scab, and it's our nature to pick at it until it bleeds.
Adrian Barnes
#17. Planted in apple orchards they are of benefit in preventing apple scab,
Louise Riotte
#18. He referred to Pope Paul III as "His Hellishness." Were not the pope and his associates at least members of the church? Yes, as much as spit, snot, pus, feces, urine, stench, scab, smallpox, ulcers, and syphilis are members of the body. Luther was never one to mince words.
Timothy George
#19. I dropped back onto Dad's stool with my mouth open. Gerald Whipplethorn? I wanted to babysit, but Gerald wasn't worth it. The kid annoyed me like an itchy scab you couldn't pick off. He was the worst. The absolute worst. I
A.W. Hartoin
#20. It was a flaking scab on a fleshy field of neglect.
Hunter Shea
#22. If you keep picking at that scab on your heart, it won't heal.
Antonia Perdu
#23. The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.
Peter Beard
#24. I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee.
Carol Burnett
#25. Time heals all wounds, or at least it causes them to scab.
Karina Halle
#26. Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit ridden, I let it reform.
Cyril Connolly
#27. The memory was so vivid that, like a fresh scab, he was sure he would start to bleed if he picked at it.
Miyuki Miyabe
#28. I loved the hole in his jeans and the dirt on his bare feet and the scab on his elbow and the scar that laced through one eyebrow.
E. Lockhart
#29. The physical healed quickly, but those of the spirit ran deep, and in most cases, could only be concealed. Wounds of the spirit may scab over, but they never fully heal.
J.K. Swift
#30. In the space beyond was Hedra Ka. A cracking scab of a planet, choked with storms and veins of lava. A mist of rocks floated in orbit, a reminder of its recent formation. It was a young world, unwelcoming, resentful of its existence. 'That is the angriest looking thing I've ever seen,' Ashby said.
Becky Chambers
#31. I had started trying - it for the first time, really - it to remember what had happened in that wood. I prodded tentatively around the edges of it, barely acknowledging even to myself what I was doing, like a kid picking at a scab but afraid to look.
Tana French
#32. My poems covered the bare places in my childhood like the fine, new skin under a scab that hasn't yet fallen off completely.
Tove Ditlevsen
#33. I've decided to trust him, but like somebody once said, you can't force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it. My problem is that buried box is like a scab I can't stop picking at.
Rick Yancey
#34. She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.
Kristin Hannah
#35. I attribute a scab to the present state of society. The way the scab looks in its worst state is gross and chaotic and horrible, that's now, but when it breaks away, there's a brand new piece of skin that's stronger than before. It's like creation out of chaos.
Brandon Boyd
#36. But even more than I wanted to check out and give my emotional wounds time to scab over, I wanted to live.
Mike Mullin
#37. Time was supposed to heal all wounds, but how could it when Jude kept picking the scab?
Michelle Hodkin
#38. To know a man properly, you must know the shape of his hurt - the specific wound around which his person has been formed like a scab.
Kei Miller
#39. ed. now. picking at the scab that was starting to heal over. why did guys do that? too little too late?
Elizabeth Noble
#40. Art is the blood that comes from a wound. You can't let it scab; let it keep bleeding. Let it bleed until you have enough blood to paint with.
Tarryn Fisher
#41. She was the scab he couldn't stop picking, the split lip he couldn't stop biting at, the loose thread he couldn't stop tugging
Joe Abercrombie
#42. There are few things more pleasurable than a cracking version of Hansel and Gretel and a good scab.
Lyn Gardner
#43. I think we're all wounded, but some of us, when we experience the healing of those wounds, that they scar and scab over.
LeCrae
#44. WHEN IT IS DONE, WE WILL FLY FAR FROM HERE. FAR FROM THIS SCAB AND ITS POISONED SKY.
WE WILL DANCE IN THE STORMS, YOU AND I.
Jay Kristoff
#45. If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the past up, it will never heal.
Leon Brown
#46. Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of that very old pain, if you'll just let it happen. (Marianne)
Laurell K. Hamilton
#47. Most women like to fuss around a wound of your past, pick at the thin scab, comfort you after they'd made it sting. Not Nell.
Lily King
#48. The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.
Jack London
#49. The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church.
Henry Wotton
#50. She had been tied to an incubus, the memory of a love that had been rejected and had had nowhere to go; she had been locked into a dead relationship and now the last dried skin of it had fallen away, like the scab on a wound, and she was free.
Alexander McCall Smith
#51. You broke my wrist, you bitch."
"She's not the one crying on the ground, son. So who's the bitch?
Ellis Leigh
#52. But time heals. Or at least it forms scabs.
Neil Gaiman
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