Scar Quotes - Page 22

• And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul.

  Richard Selzer

  Soul, Body, Poet

  Richard Selzer (1996). “Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Hurt, Distance, Book

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.

  J. L. B. Smith

  Ciphers, Self Mutilation, Landmines

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• And I know these scars will bleed, but both of our hearts believe all of these stars will guide us home

  Ed Sheeran

  Stars, Believe, Home

  Song: All of the Stars, 2014

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• Unprecedented warnings by officials most closely linked with nuclear arms negotiations and defense strategy indicate that we are running out of time. If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.

  Alan Cranston

  Running, Nuclear Disarmament, Defense

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• Don’t ever sell yourself short. Stand tall. Never be ashamed of who you are. You are beautiful, you are loved. You are needed. You are worth it. Promise me you won’t forget that. Promise me you won’t let your scars define who you are. Let your trials shape you. Let your victories humble you.

  Jennifer Nettles

  Beautiful, Humble, Promise

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• We talk about how we think, believe, suspect Michael Jackson treats children. We don't talk about how WE treat child stars. Child stars are abused by the culture. And what's more treacherous than when the rewards of child stardom issue from the abuse?
  Child stars are performers above all else. Whenever their triumps, they are going to make sure we see everyone of their scars. That's the final price of admission.

  Margo Jefferson

  Stars, Children, Believe

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• Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may be, three weeks after the fighting began. Unreasonable they are not, given the scars scoured into the national psyche by defeat in Southeast Asia. For all the differences between the two conflicts, and there are many, echoes of Vietnam are unavoidable.

  R. W. Apple

  Fighting, Echoes, Two

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• We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

  Mark Lawrence

  Men, Clothes, Degrees

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.110, Penguin

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• The Lord will not wish to count my trophies, but my scars.

  Frank Laubach

  Wish, Trophies, Lord

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• I didn't want to make the same mistake my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever.

  Jenny Han

  Love, Mistake, Parent

  Jenny Han (2011). “It's Not Summer Without You”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Bears, Mines, Happens

  Sarah J. Maas (2012). “The Assassin and the Desert: A Throne of Glass Novella”, p.305, A&C Black

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• I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Writing, Thinking, Secret

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• Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivational, Running, Nice

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (1997). “Words of the Dragon: Interviews, 1958-1973”, p.75, Tuttle Publishing

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• Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no trace of age, no fear to die.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Night, Sky

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.816, Delphi Classics

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• Each of us is the sum of our scars.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Clarity

  Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.740, Del Rey

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• Love is possible. Life is going to decide. Don't lose it, it's a treasure. It's going to be painful; it's going to be an adventure, a roller coaster. Life is a roller coaster and it gets worse when you get old. Contrary to what you think, that it gets better when you know more - no, the more you know the more painful it is. You've been hurt. You arrive with a million scars and your armor is not thick. The more you age, the more you're fragile. But do it anyway. Go for it. Otherwise it means death.

  Carole Bouquet

  Hurt, Mean, Adventure

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• Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.

  Emma Forrest

  Tattoo, Years, Architecture

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Thin Skin”, p.53, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar.

  P. T. Barnum

  Forgiving, Forget, Heal

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• Rather than ennobling the public mind and cementing the social fabric, applied science speedily became the chief weapon of a gross individualism, which was anathema to the frugal and righteous (John Quincy) Adams, the source of enormous fortunes divorced from duty, the instrument of unscrupulous ambition and rapacious materialism. Presently, it came to scar the very of the country which Adams loved, a disfiguring process uninterrupted since his day.

  Russell Kirk

  Country, Ambition, Mind

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.237, Regnery Publishing

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• I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things, too. Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me. A yellow cotton dress I loved because it was too long for her. I still have a lemon-yellow mark on the palm of my right hand. Oh God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

  J. D. Salinger

  Life, Hair, Hands

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• Scars remind us where we've been - they don't have to dictate where we are going.

  Joe Mantegna

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• People say that time heals all wounds, and maybe they're right. But whit if the wounds don't heal correctly, like when cuts leave behind nasty scars, or when broken bones mend together, but aren't as smooth anymore? Does it mean they're really healed? Or is it that the body did what it could to fix what broke.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Mean, Cutting, People

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• Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.

  Louie Giglio

  Stories, World, Witness

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• You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.

  Salman Khurshid

  Government, Hiccups, Body

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