Scar Quotes - Page 10

• These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

  Adrienne Rich

  Bears, Destruction, Witness

  Adrienne Rich (2013). “Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972”, p.52, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Battle, Stronger

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Witch of Portobello”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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• If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don't. It's like a human body, you see. A few cuts and bruises here and there don't hurt it. Not even major surgery if it's done properly. Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make.

  Douglas Adams

  Hurt, Cutting, Space

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

  Jodi Picoult

  Love, Inspirational, Pain

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.359, Penguin

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• Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slip cover. It shields and disguises what's beneath. That's why we grow it; we have something to hide.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Character, Wrinkles, Hair

  FaceBook post by Susanna Kaysen from Mar 08, 2016

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• Pain or perspective, that's the choice.' . . . You choose pain - you choose to fight it, deny it, bury it - then yes, the choice is always hard. But you choose perspective - embrace your history, give it credit for the better person it can make you, scars and all - the choice gets easier every time.

  Ted Dekker

  Pain, Fighting, Giving

  Ted Dekker, Erin Healy (2009). “Kiss”, p.321, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• That was the goth stage, where I decided I'd never get the girl of my dreams because of my scars. Not to mention my hairstyle. (pause) But then she slammed a door handle into my gut. And when a girl does that to a boy, it means she likes him.

  Lisa McMann

  Girl, Dream, Mean

  Lisa McMann (2010). “Wake”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the flesh is nothing. The pain you must forget. Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh.

  Amy Tan

  Daughter, Mother, Pain

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• You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Littles, Limits

  Haruki Murakami (1993). “Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Coincidences are the scars of fate.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Fate, Coincidence

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.420, Penguin

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• Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did so, the waves of her consciousness pulsed through my fingertips and into me - a delicate resonance of longing. Probably someone should take this girl in his arms and hold her tight, I thought. Probably someone other than me. Someone qualified to give her something. "Goodbye, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. See you again sometime.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Goodbye, Eye

  "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle". Book by Haruki Murakami, October 10, 2011.

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• His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his cap of sable shine. His right hand, bared of leathern glove, Hangs open like an iron gin, You stoop to see his pulses move, To hear the blood sweep out and in. He looks some king, so solitary In earnest thought he seems to stand, As if across a lonely sea He gazed impatient of the land. Out of the noisy centuries The foolish and the fearful fade; Yet burn unquenched these warrior eyes, Time hath not dimmed, nor death dismayed.

  Walter de La Mare

  Lonely, Kings, Stars

  Walter De la Mare (1920). “Collected Poems, 1901-1918”

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• Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.

  Isabel Allende

  World, Proud, Searching For Love

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• Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,'Aubrey. I will avenge this scar and every scar you have put into my heart. -Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)

  Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

  Heart, Night, Forests

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• Love heals scars love left

  Henry Rollins

  Best Love, Heal, Left

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.160, Villard

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• Scars crossed her welded wrists.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Wrists

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.129, Macmillan

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• To be alive at all is to have scars.

  John Steinbeck

  Alive

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.101, Penguin

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• (...the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don’t! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a few scars on my soul.

  Marlon Brando

  Soul, Knees, Non Conformist

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• I’m never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back, and I’m never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already. When we all know everyone’s life has been hard enough already it’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers with their scars, saying checkmate whenever they get out without a broken heart. Just to be clear I don’t want to get out without a broken heart. I intend to leave this life so shattered there’s gonna have to be a thousand separate heavens for all of my flying parts.

  Andrea Gibson

  Heart, Enough Already, Play Hard

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• Jealous?...Of what? I don't want a foul scar right across my head, thanks. I don't think getting your head cut open makes you that special, myself.

  J. K. Rowling

  Jealous, Cutting, Thinking

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

  Jodi Picoult

  Mean, Stories, May

  Randy Susan Meyers, M. J. Rose, Ronlyn Domingue, Sarah Pekkanen, Jodi Picoult (2013). “Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.

  Nick Hornby

  Missing, Legs, Might

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• I can handle scars, especially ones that are on the outside." I understand his meaning from the depths of my heart.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Heart, Depth, Handle

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• But you're dead," said Harry. "Oh yes," said Dumbledore matter-of-factly. "Then...I'm dead too?" "Ah," said Dumbledore, smiling still more broadly. "That is the question, isn't it? On the whole, dear boy, I think not.” They looked at each other, the old man still beaming. "Not?" repeated Harry. "Not," said Dumbledore. "But…" Harry raised his hand instinctively toward the lightning scar. It did not seem to be there. "But I should have died—I didn't defend myself! I meant to let him kill me!" "And that," said Dumbledore, "will, I think, have made all the difference.

  J. K. Rowling

  Boys, Men, Thinking

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• And what about you-the rest of you-did you notice the scars you left behind? No. Probably not. Because most of them can't be seen with the naked eye.

  Jay Asher

  Eye, Naked, Left Behind

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.68, Penguin

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