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Quotations about Scars
Wounds heal and become scars. But scars grow with us. ~Stanisław J. Lec, Unkempt Thoughts, translated from the Polish by Jacek Gałązka, 1962
Scars are tattoos with better stories. ~Toyota advertisement, in Sports Illustrated, 2002
Scars remind us where we've been — they don't have to dictate where we're going. ~Criminal Minds, "The Slave of Duty," 2009, written by Jeff Davis, Rick Dunkle, &
Scars are lessons, or victories, memorialized in flesh. ~Terri Guillemets
It is true of most human beings that if they had no physical body, they would still have an identifying scar. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
A scar is a prayer of gratitude for that which remains. ~Terri Guillemets
Most men have more scars on their souls than on their bodies. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882
I just don't want to die without a few scars. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996
A scar is a memory from the scrapbook your body is keeping about you. ~Terri Guillemets
Peter Cooper's body was marked by the falls, mauls, hauls, and scars of burns and explosions. Surely if God does not look us over for medals and diplomas, but for scars, then Peter Cooper fulfilled the requirements. ~Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Business Men, 1909
Nature grows beautiful new life over old scars. ~Terri Guillemets
Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. It's the same with the mind. ~Moses Ralph Kaufman (1900–1977), unverified
Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle. ~Dodinsky
The defects of the soul are like wounds in the body — whatever care one takes to heal, the scar still appears, and they are every moment in danger of reopening. ~François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)
Words make a deeper scar than silence can ever heal. ~Libraries: A Monthly Review of Library Matters and Methods, February 1929
Scar — fossil in flesh,
a hard-earned relic from your life
~Terri Guillemets
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar always means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. ~Harry Crews, Scar Lover, 1992
"Daddy, tell me your best secret." (I have woven
a parachute out of everything broken; my scars
are my shield; and I jump, daylight or dark,
into any country, where as I descend I turn
native and stumble into terribly human speech
and wince recognition.)
~William Stafford, "Any Time," c. 1967
Scars tell us more about the future than the past, about how we can live strong despite any pain we've been through. ~Terri Guillemets
Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you are stronger than whatever tried to hurt you. ~Author unknown
Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever. ~The Replacements, 2000, written by Vince McKewin [Shane Falco
According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scarring than almost anything else... ~J.K. Rowling, "The Second War Begins," Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003
I need to get over the hard times of my past. They've left scars, but scars are just memories. ~Terri Guillemets, "Stitches & seams," 2005
The scars of the body — what are they, compared to the hidden ones of the heart? ~Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon (1635–1719)
A scar is a moment of your life preserved like the imprint of a pressed flower in a scrapbook. ~Terri Guillemets
Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966,
When wounds are healed by love,
The scars are beautiful.
~David Bowles, "Kintsukuroi," Shattering and Bricolage, 2014
Most of our scars are internal. ~Terri Guillemets
The scars you can't see are the hardest to heal. ~Terri Guillemets
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