Scar Quotes

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."

Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

"Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole."

China Miéville

"Most scars are invisible. Damn transparent knives. Does anything cut deeper than love? I need to get some new body armor."

Jarod Kintz

"Personal branding is crucial in today's society. Just remember to wait until the metal is red hot before pressing it into your flesh."

Jarod Kintz

"For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom."

Ann Aguirre

"[to a mouse he is about to eat] Life's not fair, is it? You see, I... well, I shall never be king. And you... shall never see the light of another day. Adieu."

The Lion King

"Temper, temper. I wouldn't dream of challenging you."

The Lion King

"[digs his claws into Mufasa's paws] Long live the king. [throws Mufasa off the cliff]"

The Lion King

"Run away, Simba. Run. Run away, and never return."

The Lion King

"Mufasa's death was a terrible tragedy. But to lose Simba, who had barely begun to live... For me, it is a deep personal loss. So it is with a heavy heart that I assume the throne. Yet, out of the ashes of this tragedy, we shall rise to greet the dawning of a new era, in which lion and hyena come together in a great and glorious future!"

The Lion King

"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

"Kiss your scars. Fall in love with them. They ought to serve as life-affirming reminders—a lingering trace of hope. The only reason we have these scars is because we survived and are still here."

Kamand Kojouri

"To become a better you, dare to take calculated risks and overcome your limitations. Your scars can make you a star, but you have to decide."

Israelmore Ayivor, Become a Better You

"A warrior is defined by his scars, not his medals."

Matshona Dhliwayo

"Your deepest scars tell the world of your greatest triumphs."

Matshona Dhliwayo

"Every great leader once fell down from a tall ladder. You don't become a star until you get the scar. Take that risk now."

Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder

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

Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

"Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed."

Munia Khan

"Night never needs a shade but it requires to fade into the grin of twinkling stars where light is just a glint of scars"

Munia Khan

"It was wrong to want to touch a scar and call it beautiful."

Marie Rutkoski, The Winner's Crime

"Like a pair of old slippers,I feel comfort andwarmth as I slip into you.No, that is too crude.Like the match to the wick,I ignite when we touch.My counterpart andlife's purpose.Yes, as though I've known you my whole life.Every scar, every failurehas become an affirmationof what should be:You.Yes, as though I've loved you my whole life."

Kamand Kojouri

"Eyes and ears are two.Lungs and kidneys, too.I wonder thenwhy we're born with oneheart that skips a beat when hay is here,and beats quickly when you are near.One heart that cracks when you are far, lie to me and leave a scar.I wonder thenwhy we're born with oneheart that gets broken.Was I supposed to find you then?So your heart would make one plus one is twofor me andtwo for you."

Kamand Kojouri

"What the mind forgetsThe scars keep remembering"

Edith L. Tiempo, Marginal Annotations and Other Poems

"Only the moon's smile can cure the unseen scars of darkness"

Munia Khan

"But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost."

Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection

"If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow."

Veronica Roth

"To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features."

Criss Jami, Killosophy

"Judge not; the workings of his brainAnd of his heart thou canst not see;What looks to thy dim eyes a stain,In God's pure light may only beA scar, brought from some well-won field,Where thou wouldst only faint and yield."

Adelaide Anne Procter

"You are responsible for who you become... Love yourself, Like your speed; Leave your scars; Live your skills!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

"Be grateful for every scar life inflicts on you. Where we’re unhurt is where we are false. Where we are wounded and healed is where our real self gets to show itself. That’s where you get to show who you really are"

Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

"Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread."

Mark W. Boyer

"The counselor says that with more time and more surgeries, I will begin to feel normal again. She says this with a mouth that can still smile. It’s so easy to be reassuring when you have lips."

Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

"Regret is a self-inflicted emotional scar."

Steve Maraboli

"It'll make you look rugged,' Mel says.'Because I woke up this morning,' I say, 'and the one thing I realized I lacked was ruggedness."

Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

"...Use your finger to trace the scar upon my chest- I lied - it wasn't a knife wound, but a scrape from a nail sliding under a fence to see you..."

John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

"Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart"

Orson Scott Card, Earth Unaware

"The taste of moon is like honey to all honeymooners, but after some years does the moon's scar make it bitter?"

Munia Khan

"Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him?"

Shirley Hughes

"Is it bad to like the way the scars look on my skin? Oh, the way they feel under my hands. My body’s protecting itself, saying, “No, this barrier of scar tissue is to keep you out."

Taylor Rhodes, Sixteenth Notes: The Breaking of the Rose-Colored Glasses

"The scar on my chest, the beating of my heart, and the mountains that fostered my appreciation for the cold, hard, natural world—these were the few things that mattered."

Daniel Wallock, Right-Hearted: Finding What's Right With a Wrong-Sided Heart

"Discovery Cancels Emotional Scars"

Sunday Adelaja

"A SCAR SHOULDN’T REMIND YOU OF HOW YOU GOT HURT AND THE PAIN THAT CAME WITH IT…A SCAR SHOULD SIMPLY REMIND YOU THAT YOU SURVIVED"

mihoko shijo

"He stretches languorously under me, and the silvery scar on his abdomen catches the light, that telltale mark from Sister Two when he fought her inside Butterfly Threads just weeks ago. When he almost died to help me and Jeb escape. But I didn’t let him die, because I couldn’t imagine a world without him.I can’t imagine a future without him, either. Not anymore."

A.G. Howard, Ensnared

"The bubble had subsided, leaving only a tiny scar, but the irrational fear of water never quite left her. I never allowed her to forget, not for a moment."

Deepti Menon, Chronicles of Urban Nomads