Scar Quotes - Page 13

• Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or water or sky or hearts.

  John Muir

  Nature, Heart, Sky

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.337, Univ of Wisconsin Press

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was covered in scars from the beatings, and she used to say it was a hockey... She'd apologize. She was on pain. I understand that now, but you don't when you are three and four and you're being beaten to death with a hoover.

  Brenda Fricker

  Pain, Hockey, Abuse

  4 Copy quote

• To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.

  Frederick Buechner

  Forgiveness, Pride, Rights

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jun 21, 2013

  34 Copy quote

  Show source

• When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured.

  Hermann Hesse

  Struggle, Cutting, Years

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.

  Edward Teller

  Science, Discovery, Challenges

  6 Copy quote

• Some of us can begin to heal the damage people have done to us by escaping the situation, but some of us need more than that. Tattoos make statements that need to be made. Or hide things that are no one’s business. Your scars are battle wounds, but you don’t see them that way. Yet.

  Tammara Webber

  Tattoo, Battle Wounds, Escaping

  7 Copy quote

• Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds may have to be unbound, and old scars pointed to with pride, to prove to ourselves we have been brave and noble.

  Eugene O'Neill

  War, Pride, Old Wounds

  Eugene O'Neill (1995). “Three Plays”, Vintage

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand.

  Mat Hoffman

  Tattoo, Cycling, People

  12 Copy quote

• I think people are like that. When you really look at them, you stop seeing a perfect nose or straight teeth. You stop seeing the acne scar or dimple in the chin. Those things start to blur, and suddenly you see them, the colors, the life inside the shell, and beauty takes on a whole new meaning.

  Amy Harmon

  Thinking, Color, Perfect

  85 Copy quote

• I have some scars... lots of internal ones. But they're all scabbed over.

  Chaka Khan

  Internals

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions - but in many ways it left even deeper scars both on the mind and on the map of Europe. The old world never recovered from the shock.

  Edmond Taylor

  War, Europe, Mind

  Edmond Taylor (2015). “The Fall of the Dynasties: The Collapse of the Old Order: 1905-1922”, p.312, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  52 Copy quote

  Show source

• History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  History, Records, Stories

  Gretel Ehrlich (1989). “Heart Mountain”, Vintage

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always thought my jaw line was manly. I have this pockmark on my chin from when I was 9. I used to get freaked out about it because people thought it was a pimple. But those are the things I've become really comfortable with as I've gotten older. My scars.

  Rosario Dawson

  People, Lines, Pimples

  10 Copy quote

• During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still visible, and this year it has provided abundant pasture, more than in any year since we have owned it. But to make it as good as it is now has taken 17 years. If I had been a millionaire or if my family had been starving, it would still have taken 17 years. It can be better than it is now, but that will take longer. For it to live fully in its own responsibility, as it did before bad use ran it down, may take hundreds of years.

  Wendell Berry

  Taken, Responsibility, Years

  4 Copy quote

• Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than...''You are not equal to...'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Forever, Soul, Faces

  14 Copy quote

• People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there." Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.

  Bear Grylls

  Adventure, Cutting, People

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.

  David Fincher

  Ocean, Swimming, Gone

  "David Fincher: All the best connections" by Tim Walker, www.independent.co.uk. October 8, 2010.

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Hands, Suffering, Atmosphere

  15 Copy quote

• Quirky is sexy, like scars or chipped teeth. I also like tattoos they're rebellious.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Tattoo, Sexy, Quirky

  11 Copy quote

• Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.

  Jason Biggs

  Sex, Opposites, Feet

  "Jason Biggs 'American Pie 2'". Interview with Jane Crowther, www.bbc.co.uk.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.

  Willa Cather

  People, World, Ugly

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.91, Courier Corporation

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Scars are just another kind of memory.

  M. L. Stedman

  Memories, Kind

  7 Copy quote

• We are all smiling in the picture, three brothers having a grand old time just playing around in the living room, no agendas, no buried resentments or permanent scars. Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Brother, Growing Up, Rooms

  7 Copy quote

• Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars.The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today.

  Chris Kirubi

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

  52 Copy quote

• Life scars us with its random motion, he thought. Only death is perfect.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Perfect

  4 Copy quote