Scars Quotes

Our scars are like the rings in a tree trunk, showing its progress through life. How we heal and move forward through adversity . . . that is what makes the difference.

~ Morgan Rhodes

We live with the scars we choose.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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.

~ Nicholas Sparks

We all have scars; both inside and out. Use your experience to support those who are going down the same road of destruction you once went down. Know that your past is worth more than the pain you once carried, because it can now be used to comfort and give strength to another soul who is suffering. Cherish your trials and tribulations as gifts; embrace these opportunities to share the grace you have been given.

~ Katie Maslin

Secrets are like scars. The cut may no longer be there, but the scar’s white line tells a story. Unless you share it, it’s like you’re hiding a part of yourself the whole world can already see. They may not know the how or the why, but they see it just the same.

~ Robin M. King

They each had scars to deal with. Scars of a different kind, but scars nonetheless. If he could say something--anything--to make a difference, he'd do it, but there simply wasn't anything left to say. The reality of that made him downright sad.

~ Emily March

But this you must know: the violent murder of a mother- when a boy is at the tender age, when he is just discovering girls- it is a terrible thing. confusingly mixed up with all the things feminine, it leaves a charred residue on the soul, like the black marks found at the bottom of a burned pot. no matter how much you scrub and scrub the pot bottom with steel wool and cleansers, the scars, they are permanent

~ Richard C. Morais

The body is an organ of memory, holding traces of all our experiences. The land, too, carries the burden of all its changes. To truly see and understand a landscape is to see its depth as well as its smooth surfaces, its beauty and its scars.

~ Kristen Iversen

You are a ghost. Filled with stardust, wearing the bones as the shield and the skin as the cape. Fighting every day and opening up for the new wounds in the hustle of hiding the old scars.

~ Akshay Vasu

He is a true casualty of battle. There's not a physical scar, but look at the man's heart, and his head, and there are scars galore.

~ David Finkel

One cannot fight for so long without the scars building on one's soul.

~ J.a. London

If I could take away his pain… If there was a way to transfer it from his soul onto mine. I would take it. Without hesitation I would take it all. Maybe that’s how you know you love someone. When you actually feel each tear they cry as if they were your own. When you feel each cut, each bruise, each hit as if you’re the one suffering. I bled for him.& in turn, he bled for her.Funny, how life comes full circle

~ Rachel Van Dyken

You don't know how shallow you are, or how narcissistic, until you acquire a facial scar. On the plus side, it's so situated as to make me look tough and worldly. On the downside, I'm never kissing my dog again.

~ Rodney Ulyate

The taste of moon is like honey to all honeymooners, but after some years does the moon's scar make it bitter?

~ Munia Khan

The scar on my chest, the beating of my heart, and the mountains that fostered my appreciation for the cold, hard, natural world—these were the few things that mattered.

~ Daniel Wallock

You don't deserve the anger you're turning on yourself. Your abuser's the one who does.

~ Cheryl Rainfield

I'm not talking about the scars that separate your skin, Parker. I'm not blind, I can see those. I'm talking about the scars much deeper than that. The scars that exist within you. The ones you actually try to hide.

~ Whitney Barbetti

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

~ Mark Lawrence

And scars will lighten, they'll pale unless you keep rubbing at them...wait long enough, they'll fade.

~ C.f. Joyce

THE LINCOLN HAS ITS SCARS ALSO. MY FINGERPRINTS ACROSS ITS THROAT.

~ Amie Kaufman

But, standing in the fading golden sunlight now, I can feel some of the scars of the summer stabbing over. I can feel the promise of a new beginning.

~ Aimee Friedman

Time heals. Crushes let up. Splinters work their way out. Doesn't mean they don't leave scars that itch.

~ Lauren Beukes

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

~ Leonard Cohen

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

~ Edward Bond

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

~ John Lewis