scars

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
d829e72	I don't want to die without any scars.	tyler-durden scars	Chuck Palahniuk
416b0de	Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.	time reality past injuries scars memory	Cormac McCarthy
ab3d79d	Scars are just another kind of memory.	inspirational-quotes inspirational scars memory	M.L. Stedman
b40ec48	Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.	pain true true-love love scars	Jonathan Tropper
99acba9	Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.	life-lessons wisdom wounds hurt scars	Wallace Stegner
cde7806	I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.	leave-a-mark van-houten-being-a-douche scars	John Green
f30db8f	Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.	inspirational injury scar healing scars recovery	China Miéville
640a893	Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar. Art consists of the persistence of memory.	persistence hurts stephen-king novels requirements talent misery remember scars writers memory stories	Stephen King
391211f	Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.	scars	Paulo Coelho
6b6f604	Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.	pain suffering love redemption scars	bell hooks
093479f	Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going.	life inspirational scars	David Rossi
f94eb2c	Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.	character maturity scars	Erin McCarthy
8792d4f	"Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease. I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you think, "They'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion. ... We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can't stop pissing on fire hydrants. I know it's silly and useless--epically useless in my current state--but I am an animal like any other. Hazel is different. She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. Hazel knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either. People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm. The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox. ... But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar. ... What else? She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers."	dogs death love fire-hydrant eulogy making-a-difference hurt legacy disease survival choices scars beautiful dying	John Green
3323fa2	The girl wore her scars the way some women wore their finest jewelry.	jewelry pride scars	Sarah J. Maas
1c776b7	The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.	life-lessons wisdom wounds scars	Wallace Stegner
cf4ae74	That's why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too - their dreams and their scars and their stories.	people dreams involved scars stories	Tom Perrotta
2da484e	That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone.	scars ugly	Nicholas Sparks
1986ad3	"The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rockstar and you think, "They'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion."	memories legacy scars	John Green
ba57e7f	That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did.	scars faded-memory monstrous tana-s-mother paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown memory	Holly Black
a865808	Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.	woman life unnerved emotional paralyzing potential humiliation training discipline scars young	R.A. Salvatore
e7978c6	Peter was struck by the scar's essential nature: it was not a disfigurement, it was a miracle. All the scars ever suffered by anyone in the whole of human history were not suffering but triumph: triumph against decay, triumph against death.	scars	Michel Faber
d57fd95	Scars, whether physical or emotional, could be not just a representation of survival but also a story of hope.	scars	Jennifer L. Armentrout
007343e	This is what it means to be human. We are all just canvases for our scars.	life-journey scars	Jodi Picoult
2c839ee	"The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was granite, with a glistening line of sweat just below his hair line. He'd never forget this night, the detective knew, no matter what else happened for the rest of his life. They were all getting scars on their souls, the sort of scars people got in the Dark Ages, when they believed in devils and black magic. ("Speak To Me Of Death")"	fear scars horror devils	Cornell Woolrich
41ec6b0	Beyond all of that, I could see the wall I had seen from inside the train, the wall that runs along the train line. I assumed that there, behind it, was the west, and I was right. I could have been wrong, but I was right.' If she had any future it was over there, and she needed to get to it. I sit in the chair exploring the meaning of dumbstruck, rolling the word around in my mind. I laugh with Miriam as she laughs at herself, and at the boldness of being sixteen. At sixteen you are invulnerable. I laugh with her about rummaging around for a ladder in other people's sheds, and I laugh harder when she finds one. We laugh at the improbability of it, of someone barely more than a child poking around in Beatrix Potter's garden by the Wall, watching out for Mr McGregor and his blunderbuss, and looking for a step-ladder to scale one of the most fortified barriers on earth. We both like the girl she was, and I like the woman she has become. She says suddenly, 'I still have the scars on my hands from climbing the barbed wire, but you can't see them so well now.' She holds out her hands. The soft parts of her palms are crazed with definite white scares, each about a centimeter long. The first fence was wire mesh with a roll of barbed wire along the top.	escape courage freedom captive escape-attempt fence gdr berlin-wall self-belief belief teenager wall scars dark-humor	Anna Funder
129b6fb	Please let him look. I didn't need to hide from someone courting oblivion as ardently as I am.	scars	Gillian Flynn
4f1bac4	When I complain about the bandages she says: 'I promise you that when you take them off you'll be just as you were before.' And it is true. When she takes them off there is not one line, not one wrinkle, not one crease. And five weeks afterwards there I am, with not one line, not one wrinkle, not one crease. And there he is, lying with a ticket tied around his wrist because he died in a hospital. And there I am looking down at him, without one line, without one wrinkle, without one crease...	motherhood grief death birth baby grief-and-loss mother hospital scars	Jean Rhys
67f40fc	In return, Giovanni told me that empathizing Italians say L'ho provato sulla mia pelle, which means 'I have experienced that on my own skin.' Meaning, I have also been burned or scarred in this way, and I know exactly what you're going through.	italian experience scars	Elizabeth Gilbert
6ed78c9	Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.	happy honesty hope life love confess recover rigourous-honesty heal broken-hearted pathetic treatment healing delusion tragic self-hate denial wound scars	Dennis Lehane
593c5d7	Many displayed in their nudity traces of their past: scars of knife thrusts in the belly, starbursts of guns hot wounds, ridges of the razor cuts of love, Caesarean sections sewn up by butchers. Some of them had their young children with them during the day, those unfortunate fruits of youthful defiance or carelessness, and they took off their children's clothes as soon as they were brought in so they would not feel different in that paradise of nudity.	scars	Gabriel García Márquez

I don't want to die without any scars.

Chuck Palahniuk

416b0de

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

time reality past injuries scars memory

Cormac McCarthy

ab3d79d

Scars are just another kind of memory.

inspirational-quotes inspirational scars memory

M.L. Stedman

b40ec48

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.

pain true true-love love scars

Jonathan Tropper

99acba9

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

life-lessons wisdom wounds hurt scars

Wallace Stegner

cde7806

I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.

leave-a-mark van-houten-being-a-douche scars

John Green

f30db8f

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

inspirational injury scar healing scars recovery

China Miéville

640a893

Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar. Art consists of the persistence of memory.

persistence hurts stephen-king novels requirements talent misery remember scars writers memory stories

Stephen King

391211f

Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.

scars

Paulo Coelho

6b6f604

Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.

pain suffering love redemption scars

bell hooks

093479f

Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going.

life inspirational scars

David Rossi

f94eb2c

Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.

character maturity scars

Erin McCarthy

8792d4f

"Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease. I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you think, "They'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion. ... We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can't stop pissing on fire hydrants. I know it's silly and useless--epically useless in my current state--but I am an animal like any other. Hazel is different. She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. Hazel knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either. People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm. The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox. ... But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar. ... What else? She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers."

dogs death love fire-hydrant eulogy making-a-difference hurt legacy disease survival choices scars beautiful dying

John Green

3323fa2

The girl wore her scars the way some women wore their finest jewelry.

jewelry pride scars

Sarah J. Maas

1c776b7

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

life-lessons wisdom wounds scars

Wallace Stegner

cf4ae74

That's why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too - their dreams and their scars and their stories.

people dreams involved scars stories

Tom Perrotta

2da484e

That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone.

scars ugly

Nicholas Sparks

1986ad3

"The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rockstar and you think, "They'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion."

memories legacy scars

John Green

ba57e7f

That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did.

scars faded-memory monstrous tana-s-mother paranormal-romance tana-bach holly-black the-coldest-girl-in-coldtown memory

Holly Black

a865808

Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.

woman life unnerved emotional paralyzing potential humiliation training discipline scars young

R.A. Salvatore

e7978c6

Peter was struck by the scar's essential nature: it was not a disfigurement, it was a miracle. All the scars ever suffered by anyone in the whole of human history were not suffering but triumph: triumph against decay, triumph against death.

scars

Michel Faber

d57fd95

Scars, whether physical or emotional, could be not just a representation of survival but also a story of hope.

scars

Jennifer L. Armentrout

007343e

This is what it means to be human. We are all just canvases for our scars.

life-journey scars

Jodi Picoult

2c839ee

"The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was granite, with a glistening line of sweat just below his hair line. He'd never forget this night, the detective knew, no matter what else happened for the rest of his life. They were all getting scars on their souls, the sort of scars people got in the Dark Ages, when they believed in devils and black magic. ("Speak To Me Of Death")"

fear scars horror devils

Cornell Woolrich

41ec6b0

Beyond all of that, I could see the wall I had seen from inside the train, the wall that runs along the train line. I assumed that there, behind it, was the west, and I was right. I could have been wrong, but I was right.' If she had any future it was over there, and she needed to get to it. I sit in the chair exploring the meaning of dumbstruck, rolling the word around in my mind. I laugh with Miriam as she laughs at herself, and at the boldness of being sixteen. At sixteen you are invulnerable. I laugh with her about rummaging around for a ladder in other people's sheds, and I laugh harder when she finds one. We laugh at the improbability of it, of someone barely more than a child poking around in Beatrix Potter's garden by the Wall, watching out for Mr McGregor and his blunderbuss, and looking for a step-ladder to scale one of the most fortified barriers on earth. We both like the girl she was, and I like the woman she has become. She says suddenly, 'I still have the scars on my hands from climbing the barbed wire, but you can't see them so well now.' She holds out her hands. The soft parts of her palms are crazed with definite white scares, each about a centimeter long. The first fence was wire mesh with a roll of barbed wire along the top.

escape courage freedom captive escape-attempt fence gdr berlin-wall self-belief belief teenager wall scars dark-humor

Anna Funder

129b6fb

Please let him look. I didn't need to hide from someone courting oblivion as ardently as I am.

scars

Gillian Flynn

4f1bac4

When I complain about the bandages she says: 'I promise you that when you take them off you'll be just as you were before.' And it is true. When she takes them off there is not one line, not one wrinkle, not one crease. And five weeks afterwards there I am, with not one line, not one wrinkle, not one crease. And there he is, lying with a ticket tied around his wrist because he died in a hospital. And there I am looking down at him, without one line, without one wrinkle, without one crease...

motherhood grief death birth baby grief-and-loss mother hospital scars

Jean Rhys

67f40fc

In return, Giovanni told me that empathizing Italians say L'ho provato sulla mia pelle, which means 'I have experienced that on my own skin.' Meaning, I have also been burned or scarred in this way, and I know exactly what you're going through.

italian experience scars

Elizabeth Gilbert

6ed78c9

Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest reckoning of the self.

happy honesty hope life love confess recover rigourous-honesty heal broken-hearted pathetic treatment healing delusion tragic self-hate denial wound scars

Dennis Lehane

593c5d7

Many displayed in their nudity traces of their past: scars of knife thrusts in the belly, starbursts of guns hot wounds, ridges of the razor cuts of love, Caesarean sections sewn up by butchers. Some of them had their young children with them during the day, those unfortunate fruits of youthful defiance or carelessness, and they took off their children's clothes as soon as they were brought in so they would not feel different in that paradise of nudity.

scars

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez