Scar Quotes

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. (Wallace Stegner)
If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third One near one is too far. View quote
Robert Browning
It has been said that time heals all wounds, I don't agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but is never gone. View quote
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. View quote
Henry Rollins
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. View quote
Rosa Parks
My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets. View quote
Bill O'Reilly
A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. View quote
Harry Crews
We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness, wiped out. View quote
William James
Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair. View quote
George Eliot
You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less. (Haruki Murakami)
Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience. View quote
Hjalmar Schacht
One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place... View quote
Michael Chabon
Even when the wound is healed, the scar remains. View quote
Publilius Syrus
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tracy, the leader of the CDH group, looks at me with eyes that seem to belong to someone three times her age. It's something beyond wisdom, all the way to insanity and back. It's like her eyes are scarred from all the things she's seen. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Thank Artemis, it is you! That little scar on your lip--you tried to eat a stapler when you were two!" ... Hedge nodded like he approved of Jason's taste. "Staplers--excellent source of iron. View quote
Rick Riordan
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others. View quote
Helen Fisher
She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so... I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older. View quote
Hans Selye
When your laboratory explodes, lacing your body with a supercharged elixir, what do you do? You don't just lie there. You crawl out of the rubble, hideously scarred, and swear vengeance on the world. You keep going. You keep trying to take over the world. View quote
Austin Grossman
I didn't want to make the same mistake my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever. View quote
Jenny Han
I had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups. In my anger, I threw one at a concrete wall, and it rebounded back into my head and cut my head open. Stupidest way to get a scar, but it's one that I have. View quote
Antony Starr