Scabs Quotes

22 quotes by 21 authors

If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the past up, it will never… — Leon Brown
Pride is a wound, and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open the wound again and again. In… — Michael Ayrton
A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get seven. Sensitive people are so vulnerable; they're so easily brutalized and hurt just… — Marlon Brando
Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are… — Jesmyn Ward
Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark. — Nia Vardalos
Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach… — Alberto Manguel
The itch of disputation will prove the scab of the Church. — Henry Wotton
Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds.… — Janet Malcolm
Once upon a time there was a woman who was just like all women. And she married a man who was just like all men.… — Elizabeth Smart
The more sensitive you are, the more certain you are to be brutalized, develop scabs, never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything, because you… — Marlon Brando
There was nothing I hated worse than clumps of whispering girls who got quiet when I passed. I started picking scabs off my body and,… — Sue Monk Kidd
I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over." I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But… — Charlaine Harris
The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the… — Frank Peretti
One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me. — Salvador Plascencia
Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress. "Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in… — Suzanne Collins
Beneath this mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivilous: each… — Cyril Connolly
We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping,… — Kelly Corrigan
I wonder if I can write this history, or if on every page there will be some sneaking show of a bitterness I thought long… — Robin Hobb
Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of… — Laurell K. Hamilton
She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt. — Kristin Hannah

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21 authors contributed a total of 22 Scabs Quotes as follows: