Quotes about scar

China Miéville - The Scar

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

Paulo Coelho - Manuscript Found in Accra

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honour of losing and the joy of winning I am not here to tell you that defeat is a part of life: we all know that. Only the defeated know Love. Because it is in the realm of love that we fight our first battles – and generally lose. I am here to tell you that there are people who have never been defeated. They are the ones who never fought. They managed to avoid scars, humiliations, feelings of helplessness, as well as those moments when even wa

Chuck Palahniuk - Diary

It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.

Curtis Tyrone Jones -

Give it air & let the scar on your soul reveal itself, because, like the body, it too was made to heal itself.

Ann Aguirre - Aftermath

For I need this scar over my heart to remind me. Crazy as it sounds, if I can bear the wound on my body, it lessens what I must carry on my soul. How he knew that about me, I cannot fathom.

Veronica Roth - Four: A Divergent Story Collection

But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

Veronica Roth -

If she's in pain now she doesn't show it; she just closes her eyes and surrenders, and that is worse than her screaming for help, somehow.

Veronica Roth - Four: A Divergent Story Collection

I have a scar-a faint gouge in my knee from when I fell down on the sidewalk as a child. It's always seemed stupid to me that none of the pain I've experienced has left a visible mark; sometimes, without a way to prove it to myself. I began to doubt that I had lied through it at all, with the memories becoming hazy over time. I want to have some kind of reminder that while wounds heal, they don't disappear forever- I carry them everywhere, always, and that is the way of things, the way of scars.

Munia Khan -

Only the moon's smile can cure the unseen scars of darkness

Adelaide Anne Procter -

Judge not; the workings of his brainAnd of his heart thou canst not see;What looks to thy dim eyes a stain,In God's pure light may only beA scar, brought from some well-won field,Where thou wouldst only faint and yield.

Edith L. Tiempo - Marginal Annotations and Other Poems

What the mind forgetsThe scars keep remembering

Munia Khan -

Night never needs a shade but it requires to fade into the grin of twinkling stars where light is just a glint of scars

Marie Rutkoski - The Winner's Crime

It was wrong to want to touch a scar and call it beautiful.

Munia Khan -

Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed.

Jodi Picoult - Lone Wolf

Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.

Steve Maraboli -

Regret is a self-inflicted emotional scar.

Amit Chaudhuri - Afternoon Raag

At the base of her ankle is a deep, ugly scar she got when a car ran over her foot when she was six years old. That was in a small town in Bangladesh. Thus, even today, she hesitates superstitiously before crossing the road, and is painfully shy of walking distances. Her fears make her laughable. The scar is printed on her skin like a radiant star.

Patrick Ness - The Rest of Us Just Live Here

It'll make you look rugged,' Mel says.'Because I woke up this morning,' I say, 'and the one thing I realized I lacked was ruggedness.

Mark W. Boyer -

Nothing leaves a scar upon an Authors heart more than a book they've written with purpose going unread.

Sara Gran - Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

Be grateful for every scar life inflicts on you. Where we’re unhurt is where we are false. Where we are wounded and healed is where our real self gets to show itself. That’s where you get to show who you really are

Wilkie Collins - The Woman in White

If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie’s face, then, and then only, Anne Catherick and she would be the twin-sisters of chance resemblance, the living reflections of one another.

A.G. Howard - Ensnared

He stretches languorously under me, and the silvery scar on his abdomen catches the light, that telltale mark from Sister Two when he fought her inside Butterfly Threads just weeks ago. When he almost died to help me and Jeb escape. But I didn’t let him die, because I couldn’t imagine a world without him.I can’t imagine a future without him, either. Not anymore.

Deepti Menon - Chronicles of Urban Nomads

The bubble had subsided, leaving only a tiny scar, but the irrational fear of water never quite left her. I never allowed her to forget, not for a moment.

mihoko shijo -

A SCAR SHOULDN’T REMIND YOU OF HOW YOU GOT HURT AND THE PAIN THAT CAME WITH IT…A SCAR SHOULD SIMPLY REMIND YOU THAT YOU SURVIVED

Sunday Adelaja -

Discovery Cancels Emotional Scars

Rasmenia Massoud - Human Detritus

The counselor says that with more time and more surgeries, I will begin to feel normal again. She says this with a mouth that can still smile. It’s so easy to be reassuring when you have lips.

Daniel Wallock - Right-Hearted: Finding What's Right With a Wrong-Sided Heart

The scar on my chest, the beating of my heart, and the mountains that fostered my appreciation for the cold, hard, natural world—these were the few things that mattered.

John Geddes - A Familiar Rain

...Use your finger to trace the scar upon my chest- I lied - it wasn't a knife wound, but a scrape from a nail sliding under a fence to see you...

Orson Scott Card - Earth Unaware

Guils is the greatest weapon vecause its cuts rarely heal and it aims for the heart

Taylor Rhodes - Sixteenth Notes: The Breaking of the Rose-Colored Glasses

Is it bad to like the way the scars look on my skin? Oh, the way they feel under my hands. My body’s protecting itself, saying, “No, this barrier of scar tissue is to keep you out.

Shirley Hughes -

Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him?

Munia Khan -

The taste of moon is like honey to all honeymooners, but after some years does the moon's scar make it bitter?