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Quotes About Scar

...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.
~ Tori Amos
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.
~ John F. Westfall
Algunos casos tienen ese efecto. Un único acontecimiento y todo lo que sucede a continuación se vuelve distino. La mayoría de los delitos se olvidan. Todo el mundo sigue con su vida. El delico cae en el olvido. Pero algunos tocan la fibra sensible de la memoria. Son comp una llaga que no llega a curarse. Dejan una cicatriz.
~ John Katzenbach
Deep-set eyes glittered like mica chips on either side of a scar-bridged gypsy nose, and straightened and smiled as Keith and Eoghan entered.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Whatever he was before, he's but a candle-flicker now. A beautiful one, polished and glossy, all the more perfect for the terrible, disfiguring scar that puckers and knots the right side of his face when he smiles. It doesn't seem to bother the young man's admirers; if anything, the wolf thinks some of them find it erotic. The boy shies away like a startled horse, an animal he will never see when women and men wonderingly brush the raw-lipped pink line.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Time does not heal, It makes a half-stiched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour
~ Elizabeth Jennings
The big issues, the things that scar Scotland - the least of them is whether we should have a border at Gretna Green or not.
~ Johann Lamont
They bear a brand above their brows that mocks our Charter mark - an ugly, moving scar that proclaims their allegiance.' 'Oh good! That should make it --' 'The adept among them can disguise this, of course. Usually as a Charter mark.' Latimer emitted something between a growl and a sigh of exasperation.
~ Garth Nix
People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before the next horrifying event. People forget there is such a thing as memory, and that when a wound heals it leaves a permanent scar that never goes away, but merely fades a little. What really ought to be said after one of these so-called tragedies is, Let the scarring begin.
~ George Carlin
The yellow eyes had fallen from the tired star. Lorq's face erupted about the scar at some antic from the Mouse that Katin had missed. Rage, Katin pondered. Rage. Yes, he is laughing. But how is anyone supposed to distinguish between laughter and rage in that face? But the others were laughing too. Yet some way, somehow, we do.
~ Samuel R. Delany
...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.
~ Nia Vardalos
It should be worth the Courage Scar," said Harold from above, "don't you think so?" "What?" I asked. "Stealing a wench from the House of Saphrar and returning on a stolen tarn." "Undoubtedly," I grumbled. I found myself wondering if the Tuchuks had an Idiocy Scar.
~ John Norman
in every scar there is a story. The salve is the telling itself.
~ Emily Bernard
I had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups. In my anger, I threw one at a concrete wall, and it rebounded back into my head and cut my head open. Stupidest way to get a scar, but it's one that I have.
~ Antony Starr
But I do, like proper cooks, have an oven burn on my arm. I ran it under the tap for a couple of minutes but then the biscuits I'd made were cool enough to eat and I had to make a choice. Tiny scar and full belly it is then.
~ Sarah Millican
Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.
~ Maggie Grace
It rattled me. Not just the look or the question-although those were bad enough-but the realization that he'd simply taken a shortcut through the conversation I'd anticipated having and reached the finish line ahead of me. I'd known he was much smarter than he seemed, but I hadn't appreciated before how quick he was, that his mind was not in any way hobbled by the scar that slowed and distorted his speech. It was so terribly easy to forget that.
~ Sarah Monette
I am listening to what fear teaches. I will never be gone. I am a scar, a report from the frontlines, a talisman, a resurrection, a rough place on the chin of complacency.
~ Audre Lorde
It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.
~ Ayn Rand
Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.
~ Stephen King
People think first love is sweet, and never sweeter than when that first bond snaps. You've heard a thousand pop and country songs that prove the point; some fool got his heart broke. Yet that first broken heart is always the most painful, the slowest to mend, and leaves the most visible scar. What's so sweet about that?
~ Stephen King
My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.' I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.' Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed.
~ Stephen King
That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.
~ Stephen King