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Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. -- Henry Rollins
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. -- Thomas Hardy
Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older. -- Hans Selye
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. -- Leonard Cohen
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. -- Harry Crews
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again. -- Rosa Parks
I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place. -- Rupert Murdoch
If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping. -- Hulk Hogan
Let our scars fall in love. -- Galway Kinnell
I don't want to die without a few scars.. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I just don't want to die without a few scars. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill. -- Michael Ignatieff
I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it. -- Carly Simon
A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars. -- Carly Simon
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. -- Edward Bond
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. -- Khalil Gibran
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. -- Douglas MacArthur
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. -- Angela Carter
Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love? -- Fulton J. Sheen
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. -- Rose Kennedy
Since the birth of our Nation, no other right has been more important than having the ability to vote. Unfortunately, as history has shown, the denial of this right to minorities is a scar on our system of democracy. -- Jan Schakowsky
I couldn't believe they were saying I put a horrible fake plastic bosom over scars I was trying to heal and keep it in place with a tight bra, which could stop my blood flow, just so I could fit into my clothes. -- Koo Stark
My teeth have never been touched. Why did I tell you that? Knock on wood. I've got a few scars over the eyes, a couple on the chin, a few on the beak and one across the cheek. But my luck is running out. -- Brett Hull
I was covered in scars from the beatings, and she used to say it was a hockey... She'd apologize. She was on pain. I understand that now, but you don't when you are three and four and you're being beaten to death with a hoover. -- Brenda Fricker
Turn your scars into stars. -- Robert H. Schuller
Events That Haunt The Mind And Scar It With Nightmares Are Never What They Seem... -- P.W. Creighton
Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill. -- Michael Ignatieff
Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole. -- China Mieville
She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slip cover. It shields and disguises what's beneath. That's why we grow it; we have something to hide. -- Susanna Kaysen
Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the pain. Time is neither scalpel nor bandage. It is indifferent. Scar tissue is not a good thing. It is merely the wound's other face. -- Karen Marie Moning
I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you. -- Nick Nolte
Because nobody goes through life without a scar. -- Carol Burnett
My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow. -- Carly Simon
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. -- Wallace Stegner
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection. -- Marina Tsvetaeva
This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars. -- Lewis Black
The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states. -- Burke Marshall
It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone. -- Rose Kennedy
Why do we feel jealousy? Therapists often regard the demon as a scar of childhood trauma or a symptom of a psychological problem. And it's true that people who feel inadequate, insecure, or overly dependent tend to be more jealous than others. -- Helen Fisher
I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it. -- Lauren Bacall
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I did have reconstructive plastic surgery and a tummy tuck. And from hip to hip, there's a very big scar. It looks better than it did... So I say, if you don't like that skin, have it removed. This is my advice: if you're gonna do it - just go for it. -- Carnie Wilson
You always notice a facelift on a woman. It's a tightness around the ears, and the scar is usually inside the ears. If I suspect it's been done, I usually move around until I can see it. But with a man, it actually pulls your beard and your sideburns back, and that's what's so strange. -- Tom Ford
I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I'm looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that's really two scars - half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I'll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them. -- Kris Kristofferson
The thing that you think is imperfect about you is the thing that makes you who you are. It separates you from everybody else. I have a scar on my lip, and for years I hated it. But now its become my thing. It's like, without it, I'm not me. You can't be perfect, so enjoy your imperfections. I can't stress that enough. -- Terry Crews
That's a tumor. It goes across my liver, up through my lungs, all the way around my heart. And when they were done trying to cut it out, nuke it out with radiation and chemotherapy it out, it left so much scar tissue that when I walk outside now in cold weather and take a deep breath, it feels like someone is stabbing me. -- Eric Massa
Never underestimate those who you scar. -- Lauryn Hill
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? -- Lord Byron
Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue. -- George Will
The wounds of conscience always leave a scar. -- Publilius Syrus
I was always interested in films that scar. -- David Fincher
Every scar in my face is worth it. -- Joyce Carol Oates
People think I shave my eyebrow It's a scar -- Charlie Puth
What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar. -- Marilyn Manson
You'll always be the deepest scar on my heart. -- Cassia Leo
When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does. -- Bertolt Brecht
Even when the wound is healed the scar remains. -- Publilius Syrus
Failure is an instruction manual written in scar tissue. -- Chuck Wendig
The best people all have some kind of scar. -- Kiera Cass
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A scar left behind by a woman typically goes forever. -- Kim Ok-gyun
To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar. -- P. T. Barnum
A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor. -- William Shakespeare
I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar. -- John Green
like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone. -- Jennifer Stone
A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. -- Leonard Cohen
I am past scorching; not easily can'st thou scorch a scar. -- Herman Melville
Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar? -- Amy Carmichael
A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor. -- Laurie Halse Anderson
The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well. -- J. K. Rowling
Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth. -- J. L. B. Smith
Life might hurt, might bruise, might forever scar, but it was for living. -- Nalini Singh
A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived. -- Chris Cleave
Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar. -- John Steinbeck
As a scar commemorates what happened, so is memory but itself a scar. -- Carl Phillips
The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. -- Wallace Stegner
Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts. -- William James Mayo
you trace a finger over my scar and uncloak me like a timid star -- John Geddes
The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story -- Jodi Picoult
Every scar has a life of its own and a space in my heart. -- Paulo Coelho
My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife. -- David Lange
Could a scar be like the rings of a tree, reopened with each emotional season? -- Magenta Periwinkle
There. Maybe if you're lucky, you'll get a scar! That's what you want, isn't it? -- J. K. Rowling
Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand. -- Mat Hoffman
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar. -- Bertolt Brecht
I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic. -- Nick Hornby
I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned -- Carrie Underwood
Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime's worth of lessons. -- Wallace Stegner
I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that. -- Maggie Grace
I wear glasses, have a big scar, I sing loud, and I am blond. I'm sorry! -- Anastacia
To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away. -- Maya Rudolph
He who dares to speak with a razor sharp tongue, shall in end, bare the final scar. -- Robert M. Hensel
I touch my scar to remind myself that I am not a coward. I am a Quinn. -- Delores Phillips
I probably carry more scar tissue on my derriÃ¨re than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue. -- Alexander Haig
On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I've had both knees reconstructed. -- Joe Rogan
I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding. -- Robin Hobb
Army wives experience hell from the inside out; a wound you'll never see, a scar that never heals. -- L.M. Fields
You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body. -- Salman Khurshid
...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have. -- Tori Amos
From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived." -- Craig Scott
Forgiving someone isn't just about doing good to another. It's also about healing a scar in your own heart. -- Nouman Ali Khan
One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar. -- Margaret Deland
It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar. -- Kate Morton
My face is so pretty, you don't see a scar, which proves I'm the king of the ring by far. -- Muhammad Ali
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Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed. -- Munia Khan
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it. -- Lord Byron
I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar. -- Danilo Kis
Each wedding picture was less of a memento than a scar. Proof of some horror movie scenario Katherine Kenton has survived. -- Chuck Palahniuk
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it. -- Lord Byron
The scar on my eye is a result of the doctor's sewing up my face. It was 450 stitches and plastic surgery. -- Charlie Puth
Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul. -- Bob Geldof
The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours. -- Alan Hansen
The attempt to prevent our kids from struggling for fear it might scar their permanent records is, instead, scarring them for life. -- Heather Choate Davis
On Harry dug, deeper and deeper into the hard, cold earth, subsuming his grief in sweat, denying the pain in his scar. -- J. K. Rowling

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