Scar Quotes · Page 20

Battle scars just remind us that we survived.

— Shelly Crane

I am past scorching; not easily can’st thou scorch a scar.

— Herman Melville

I have a scar on my left thigh, kind of almost near my knee. I essentially fell in the 2002 Olympics and…

— Apolo Ohno

We all have scars [...] Better by far for them to be worn on the outside.

— David Gemmell

If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can,…

— Hulk Hogan

I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on…

— J. D. Salinger

All of the sudden, my right leg caved in. I crumpled to the floor in pain. The doctor weren't sure I'd ever…

— Wilt Chamberlain

He would bear scars because of me, as I carried them for him.

— Ann Aguirre

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…

— Cornell Woolrich

Through the damp fabric of my coverall, bundled in my blanket, I feel naked. Raw. He sees more than I want, more…

— Ann Aguirre

All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

— Alethea Kontis

The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also…

— Burke Marshall

That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved…

— Nicholas Sparks

Now I just have these reddish scars there. I guess I always will, although Goody says they’ll fade over time. I don’t…

— Michael Thomas Ford

I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I…

— Randall Robinson

Scars remind us where we've been - they don't have to dictate where we are going.

— Anonymous

The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and…

— Peter Hook

What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is…

— Anonymous

A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance's White people seem to think the black man ought to be…

— Malcolm X

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

— Rich Mullins

Master of Life is the person who is best at keeping the brutal scars of life to a minimum!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

How I saw in her my own true nature. What was beneath my skin. Inside my bones... Even though I was young,…

— Amy Tan

Is he all scarred now? Magic gets rid of most physical scars, but I like to think I scarred him emotionally.

— Derek Landy

Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.

— J. L. B. Smith