Scar Quotes

“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.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

“Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.”
― China Miéville, The Scar

“Scars are just a treasure map for pain you've buried too deep to remember.”
― Jodi Picoult, Lone Wolf

“I told him the story of the day I'd been mending pottery with one of the maids in the kitchen at Keramzin, waiting for him to return from one of the hunting trips that had taken him from home more and more frequently. I'd been fifteen, standing at the counter, vainly trying to glue together the jagged pieces of a blue cup. When I saw him crossing the fields, I ran to the doorway and waved. He caught sight of me and broke into a jog.
I had crossed the yard to him slowly, watching him draw closer, baffled by the way my heart was skittering around in my chest. Then he'd picked me up and swung me in a circle, and I'd clung to him, breathing in his sweet, familiar smell, shocked by how much I'd missed him. Dimly, I'd been aware that I still had a shard of that blue cup in my hand, that it was digging into my palm, but I didn't want to let go.
When he finally set me down and ambled off into the kitchen to find his lunch, I had stood there, my palm dripping in blood, my head still spinning, knowing that everything had changed.
Ana Kuya had scolded me for getting blood on the clean kitchen floor. She'd bandaged my hand and told me it would heal. But I knew it would just go on hurting.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone

“They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us to barricade our doors
and hide our children.
Their aim is to make us fear life itself!
They want us to hate.
They want us to hate 'the other'.
They want us to practice aggression
and perfect antagonism.
Their aim is to divide us all!
They want us to be inhuman.
They want us to throw out our kindness.
They want us to bury our love
and burn our hope.
Their aim is to take all our light!
They think their bricked walls
will separate us.
They think their damned bombs
will defeat us.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that my soul and your soul are old friends.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that when they cut you I bleed.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that we will never be afraid,
we will never hate
and we will never be silent
for life is ours!”
― Kamand Kojouri

“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 warriors doubt the existence of God.’’
Manuscript Found In Accra – Paulo Coelho”
― Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra

“When the sense of «not belonging» is tolling the bell for true happiness, it infuses people into accepting life as a failure, or a scar in the canvas of a vacant environment. The attachment to the little things, though, and the fleeting moments of every day can confer connection and expectation. ("The grass was greener over there")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“When a mood of "not belonging" is haunting our mind and tolling the bell for relief or happiness, life may be like a scar on the canvas of our dreams. Now is the time to wake up and slip back to the basics, in the vein of crawling back to mum's lap. ("The grass was greener over there")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

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

“Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him?”
― Hughes

“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.”
― Ann Aguirre, Aftermath

“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.”
― Rasmenia Massoud, Human Detritus

“He'll have that scar forever."

"Couldn't you do something about it, Dumbledore?"

"Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.”
― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“Give it air & let the scar on your soul reveal itself, because, like the body, it too was made to heal itself.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Is that where—?’ whispered Professor McGonagall.
‘Yes,’ said Dumbledore. ‘He'll have that scar for ever.’
‘Couldn't you do something about it, Dumbledore?’
‘Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in useful. I have one myself above my left knee which is a perfect map of the London underground. Well—give him here, Hagrid—we'd better get this over with.’ Dumbledore took Harry in his arms and turned towards the Dursleys’ house.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“After a moment, she felt Tornac pull her sleeve back down, and he said, "That... is a very impressive scar. You should be proud of it."
Confused, she looked back at him. "Why? It's ugly, and I hate it."
A faint smile played around the corners of his lips. "Because a scar means you survived. It means you're tough and hard to kill. It means you lived. A scar is something to admire.”
― Christopher Paolini, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Eragon

“Studies on the phenomenon indicate that a person with a high tolerance for pain is likely to also have above-average capacity to cope with the stress of a job layoff or a cancer diagnosis, and this same person is more likely as well to have experienced a moderate amount of psychological trauma in his or her past. It would appear that a certain amount of misfortune is needed to toughen the mind against suffering and hardship, but excessive trauma leaves scar tissue.”
― Matt Fitzgerald, How Bad Do You Want It? Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle

“i touched her in the middle of her heart.
i never saw her again.

–– scar”
― Nayyirah Waheed, Salt

“I forgot him like the skin that healed the wound but kept the scar.”
― I.B. Vyache

“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, Elizabeth Jennings: Selected Poems

“A new year is to hide the old scar by hoping to heal the new ones...”
― Munia Khan

“Love is often called ‘a beautiful thing’, yet it leaves ugly scars behind.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very thin scar on his forehead that was shaped like a bolt of lightning.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

“A scar, a slash; will live forever...
Before you catch the chisel! Before engrave!
Think! Think twice; until the death…”
― George Spyrou, Roxanne

“The scars of my heart wore ivory
and the lines on my mind told crimson lies.”
― Laura Chouette

“Scar tissue is strong as hell. When a horse gets a cut the skin that grows back into a hard scar is called proud flesh, that sounds about right to me. I’m proud of how what I’ve been through has made me grow back stronger.”
― Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

“You may continue to stay together after betrayal, and the scar may heal and condense, but will never totally disappear.”
― RJ Intindola – (Gandolfo) – 1981

“Maybe life isn't about avoiding the bruises, maybe it's about collecting the scars to prove that we showed up for it.”
― Hannah Brencher

“Every scar we carry is like a star, shining with the light of our strength and resilience.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya