Quotes About Scars

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

Men have scars, women mysteries.

The old wounds never heal.

Los hombres tienen cicatrices, las mujeres, secretos. Cersei Lannister

I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. ... They talk like me, like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!

Decency: the inexplicable: the ground of all ethics. Things we do not do. We do not stare when the soul leaves the body, but veil our eyes with tears or cover them with our hands. We do not stare at scars, which are places where the soul has struggled to leave and been forced back, closed up, sewn in.

Lassiter came in alone, likely because Doc Jane had returned to the Pit. And the angel was naked as a jaybird… and just frickin' fine. No bullet holes, no scars, no contusions. "You keep looking at me like that and you'd better buy me dinner afterward.

Scars, though, left wounds on the inside of you, and as with skin that didn't heal right, you still felt the rough spots from time to time.

the whole clean-break thing had been an illusion. Just because you moved on didn't mean you shed your personal history like a suit of clothes. Your past was the same as your skin: with you for life, both the proverbial beauty marks . . . and the scars. Mostly the scars

Then Rhage kissed each and every scar. She

hurts you.  It is an everlasting pain in you, a wound that does not heal, a knife of flame. 

That's war. It won't let anyone get away unscathed. I'm sorry about Grete."Verner aka 'Jens'in the novel 'the Informer' by Steen Langstrup

No one warrior, no protestor, no member of the silent majority walked away from the Vietnam war unscathed.

Matthew had won this battle—a battle in a war marked no more by yards on an open field, but by scars unseen.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!

Remembered pain tightened his mouth into a grim line. The weeks he'd spent looking for her had left permanent scars on his heart.

Outlines of dead logs I hauled away remained impressed on the damp earth, scarring the ground with their funereal shapes.

Michel. In my dreams, you come and get me. You take me by the hand and you lead me away. This life is too much for me to bear. I look at the key and I long for you and for the past. For the innocent, easy days before the war. I know now my scars will never heal. I hope my son will forgive me. He will never know. No one will ever know.

Are we not forever shaped by our childhood, its scars, its secrets, its hidden pain?

at scars that never felt a wound.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

Moira wished she spoke better Russian so that she could talk to Tekla about her ideas regarding appearance and grooming. The facial scars put her well outside the norms of feminine beauty and she had doubled down by electing to keep the buzz cut. In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, she was, to put it bluntly, kind of hot. Moira hated to say it. But hotness was a part of the human condition and it was pointless to pretend that it did not exist.

She expressed shock at my many injuries and scars. I kissed this little-ass, adorable-ass stripper mothafucka tenderly and said, "I'm not an insane maniac. I'm a poser insane maniac. I'm just dealing with the absurdity of existence by shoving absurdity down existence's throat." She