Scar Quotes

• From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."

  Craig Scott

  Life, Wounds And Scars, Domestic Violence

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  The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, Military, War

  "Duty, Honor, Country: A Pictorial Autobiography".

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  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

  Time, Pain, Get Well

  Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

  Chris Cleave

  Mean, Thinking, Dying

  Chris Cleave (2010). “Little Bee: A Novel”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Harry Crews

  Broken Heart, Beautiful, Hurt

  Harry Crews (1993). “Scar Lover”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned

  Carrie Underwood

  Life Lesson, Grateful, Bridges

  Song: Lessons Learned, Album: Some Hearts, 2005

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• I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

  Demi Lovato

  Strength, Beautiful, Being Strong

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.40, Macmillan

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• When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Life, Healing

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.429, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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  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.

  Rosa Parks

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

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• A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

  Carly Simon

  Strong Women, War, Being A Strong Woman

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• He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Wounds And Scars, Romeo And Juliet Love

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

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• What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.

  Marilyn Manson

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• Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

  Linda Hogan

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Pain

  Linda Hogan (1997). “Solar Storms”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

  Aisha Tyler

  Wounds And Scars, Tough, Human Experience

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• I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might scar or heal, would be a miserable kind of emblem; would anyway be there, on the surface of her body, rather than corroding it from within. Now the thought came to her again, that she might scar herself in some way. It came, like the solution to a problem: I won't be doing it like some hysterical girl. I won't be hoping she'll come catch me at it. It won't be like lying on the sitting-room floor. I'll be doing it for myself, as a secret.

  Sarah Waters

  Girl, Lying, Cutting

  Sarah Waters (2011). “The Night Watch”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

  Carol Burnett

  Life, Inspire

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• Let our scars fall in love.

  Galway Kinnell

  Falling In Love, Fall, Hmm

  Galway Kinnell (1973). “The Book of Nightmares”, p.31, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Taken, Mind, Skins

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• Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

  China Mieville

  Memories, Past, Stitches

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• Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

  Leonard Cohen

  Love, Children, Heart

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “The Favourite Game”, p.10, Emblem Editions

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• I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

  Angela Carter

  Angel, Thinking, Culture

  "The Company of Angela Carter". "Marxism Today" Magazine, January 1985.

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• Want know how I got these scars? My father was a drinker and a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not one bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me, and he says, 'why so serious?' He comes at me with the knife. 'Why so serious?!'. He sticks the blade in my mouth. 'Let's put a smile on that face!' And why so serious?

  Heath Ledger

  Father, Dark, Night

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• God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Motivational, Sad, God

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

  Angelina Jolie

  Hate, Thinking, Flaws

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