--- title: "3 Scar Quotes By Wallace Stegner" description: "3 Scar quotes by Wallace Stegner. Plus more from Wallace Stegner and more Scar sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59a/wallace-stegner-1352_break_most-things-break-including-hearts-the-l_512372.png" --- > [Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stegner/most-things-break-including-hearts-the-lessons-of-life-amount-not-to/) [Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stegner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59a/wallace-stegner-1352_break_most-things-break-including-hearts-the-l_512372.png) > [“The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stegner/the-lessons-of-life-amount-not-to-wisdom-but-to-scar-tissue-and-callus/) [Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stegner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f0b/wallace-stegner-1352_hurt_the-lessons-of-life-amount-not-to-wisdom_2548628.png) > [Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stegner/be-proud-of-every-scar-on-your-heart-each-one-holds-a-lifetime-s/) [Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stegner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d06/wallace-stegner-1352_be-proud_be-proud-of-every-scar-on-your-heart-eac_2781146.png) ## Other authors on Scar - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-john-green-51499.jpg) John Green 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/scar/john-green/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-paulo-coelho-74345.jpg) Paulo Coelho 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/scar/paulo-coelho/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-chris-cleave-23420.jpg) Chris Cleave 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/scar/chris-cleave/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-sherrilyn-kenyon-84925.jpg) Sherrilyn Kenyon 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/scar/sherrilyn-kenyon/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jodi-picoult-50321.jpg) Jodi Picoult 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/scar/jodi-picoult/) - [J.K. Rowling 7 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/scar/j-k-rowling/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-rollins-41662.jpg) Henry Rollins 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/scar/henry-rollins/) - [Tinsel Korey 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/scar/tinsel-korey/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b018/author-nalini-singh-70008.jpg) Nalini Singh 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/scar/nalini-singh/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-chuck-palahniuk-24118.jpg) Chuck Palahniuk 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/scar/chuck-palahniuk/) ## More by Wallace Stegner > [“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stegner/i-have-to-blame-myself-for-not-finding-any-way-of-reaching-him-but-i/) [Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stegner/) > [No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stegner/no-life-goes-past-so-swiftly-as-an-eventless-one-no-clock-spins-like/) [Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stegner/) > [“within yourself, you became a grave for her as you were a grave for Chet, and you carried your dead unquietly within you. —”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stegner/within-yourself-you-became-a-grave-for-her-as-you-were-a-grave-for/) [Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stegner/) > [Towns are like people. Old ones often have character, the new ones are interchangeable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stegner/towns-are-like-people-old-ones-often-have-character-the-new-ones-are/) [Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stegner/) > [By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stegner/by-his-very-profession-a-serious-fiction-writer-is-a-vendor-of-the/) [Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stegner/) > [“The creative writer is compulsively concrete . . . . His fictional house should be haunted by ideas, not inhabited by them; they should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stegner/the-creative-writer-is-compulsively-concrete-his-fictional-house/) [Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stegner/) > [Hard writing makes easy reading.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stegner/hard-writing-makes-easy-reading/) [Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stegner/) > [You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stegner/you-married-me-but-you-didn-t-marry-what-you-could-make-out-of-me/) [Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stegner/) > [Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stegner/wisdom-is-knowing-what-you-have-to-accept/) [Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stegner/) > [“His mouth is full of ecology, his mind is full of fumes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stegner/his-mouth-is-full-of-ecology-his-mind-is-full-of-fumes/) [Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stegner/) > [I gave my heart to the mountains the minute I stood beside this river with its spray in my face and watched it thunder…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stegner/i-gave-my-heart-to-the-mountains-the-minute-i-stood-beside-this-river/) [Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stegner/) > [“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stegner/poetry-ought-to-be-a-by-product-of-living-and-you-can-t-have-a-by/) [Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stegner/) > [Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stegner/something-will-have-gone-out-of-us-as-a-people-if-we-ever-let-the/) [Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stegner/) > [“Some people, I am told, have memories like computers, nothing to do but punch the button and wait for the print-out. Mine is more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stegner/some-people-i-am-told-have-memories-like-computers-nothing-to-do-but/) [Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stegner/) > [ “\[Y\]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase \[angle of repose\] as descriptive of human as well… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wallace-stegner/y-ou-were-too-alert-to-the-figurative-possibilities-of-words-not-to/) [Wallace Stegner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wallace-stegner/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/scar/wallace-stegner/#itemlist", "name": "3 Scar Quotes By Wallace Stegner", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Most things break, including hearts. 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