Scars Quotes

"I don't want to die without any scars."

Chuck Palahniuk

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

Rumi

"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone."

Rose Kennedy

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Kahlil Gibran

"The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars."

Bertolt Brecht

"Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus."

Wallace Stegner

"Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late."

Jonathan Tropper

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

Jarod Kintz

"Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise."

Aaron Ben-Ze'ev

"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

"Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands."

bell hooks

"The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus."

Wallace Stegner

"Faith is about going through hell, coming out with some scars, and becoming a wiser person from the lessons you’ve learned along the way. You must take the scars of your past and appreciate them for what they have taught you. You also have to take the scars, the lessons of your past and not let them control your future…."

James A. Murphy

"You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful."

Criss Jami

"Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles."

Suzy Kassem

"Being the light of the world is about being a broken, exploding, scarred star and shining a light of hope and inspiration to everyone around you."

Ricky Maye

"My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded."

Steve Maraboli

"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, The Whispered Kiss

"Yes, my scars shape meToday, I have learnt to coverit with fabric made of hope, faith, perseverance, and determination. For this, I am grateful to life"

Vijaya Gowrisankar

"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

"Scars, whether physical or emotional, could be not just a representation of survival but also a story of hope."

Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fire In You

"And in the end,she left a scarand I knew that washow she wanted tobe remembered.She wanted to leaveher mark in theworldwithout gettingher heart tooattached to it."

Robert M. Drake, Black Butterfly

"My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was kind of her to say, but he did do harm."

Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

"And I find myself asking again and again.... What was it about such a beautiful man, who was able to leave such ugly scars?"

Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths

"I want your scars, your darkness, your secrets. I want to see the interior of your soul."

Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy

"There comes a moment when we must choose how we’re going to love someone. Some forms of love leave a sweet memory once they’re gone, others leave scars. But there are forms that when stolen, destroy part of who we are—love that transforms us."

Caroline George, The Vestige

"Never again will I justify the scars just because I loved the person holding the knife."

Steve Maraboli

"That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories."

Tom Perrotta, The Leftovers

"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

"Healing is your right, your responsibility and the risk you can't afford not to take."

Thaiia Senquetta, Honey peppered tongue

"You must have thought more times than you realized "it will hurt".You should know it may. Okay. It may hurt immensely to open you up in your safe, dark space, sporadic light and chaotic air hitting you unlike anything you have known. Sometimes it will feel impossible to swallow. Because finding your way back to you involves telling the truth about oneself while pushing through a field of trees that are all whispering different tones of you."

Thaiia Senquetta, Honey peppered tongue

"Don't everallowthe disharmony of otherstobecome your ownamindful practiceof discernment(and the dislike for wearing bullshit)buildsthe eye, heart and spiritual muscles."

Thaiia Senquetta

"For every spirit who is learning: you heal yourself."

Thaiia Senquetta, Honey peppered tongue

"We're only lucky enough to see the wonders of nature's canyons because they're gracious enough to show us the places they've been damaged."

Curtis Tyrone Jones

"...they left a scar that would fade but never vanish."

Jordan Elizabeth Mierek, Runners and Riders

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

Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

"Time heals all wounds. But not this one. Not yet."

Marie Lu, Champion

"Injuries heal, but wrinkles are the scars of time."

Bauvard, The Prince Of Plungers

"I don’t have to let anyone use me. I don’t have to bend the truth. Even if I’m not ready to forgive just yet, I don’t have to be tied to my scars, to the people who wounded me, or to the anger and fear that grew out of it. I can be myself and be honest and not be afraid. Not of getting hurt or of hurting others."

Ryan Galloway, Biome

"For me, the most interesting people seem to have the bumpiest pasts. I prefer to connect with someone who has experienced the struggles, battles, and casualties of life’s journey. There is beauty, wisdom, and truth to be found in the scars."

Steve Maraboli

"I will not play it safe! I want to experience the length, depth, and breadth of life. I'm not just here for the victories... I'm here for the scars."

Steve Maraboli

"I will not play it safe!I want to experience the length, depth, and breadth of life. I'm not just here for the victories... I'm here for the scars."

Steve Maraboli

"I hold you in the safest place I keep. Somewhere between memories and scars."

Nicole Lyons

"Scars mean you fought. Wrinkles mean you lived. Heartache means you loved."

Matshona Dhliwayo

"A city isn’t so unlike a person. They both have the marks to show they have many stories to tell. They see many faces. They tear things down and make new again."

Rasmenia Massoud, Broken Abroad

"But this you must know: the violent murder of a mother- when a boy is at the tender age, when he is just discovering girls- it is a terrible thing. confusingly mixed up with all the things feminine, it leaves a charred residue on the soul, like the black marks found at the bottom of a burned pot. no matter how much you scrub and scrub the pot bottom with steel wool and cleansers, the scars, they are permanent"

Richard C. Morais, The Hundred-Foot Journey

"She wore her battle scars like wings, looking at her you would never know that once upon a time she forgot how to fly"

Nikki Rowe

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

Matshona Dhliwayo

"Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Trials Of A Damsel

"He'd been told that women were sensitive about such things, as if a scar could somehow ruin their beauty, but scars were just stories told in flesh..."

Larry Correia

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