Blemish Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien

“Not blemishes. Adornments.”

— Ian McEwan

“There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It struck me soon, however, there would be more sense in endeavouring to repair some of his wrongs than shedding tears over them.”

— Emily Brontë

“This man, who’d rushed in to hold together all the splintering pieces of my world and forced them back together before they were completely…

— A.L. Jackson

“Wounds may heal, but the scars remain.”

— Reyna Pryde

“When all was said, his fate, however ugly it might prove to be, was in his own hands; he was its master.”

— Victor Hugo

“Wishful thinking, that time might heal—it seldom healed anything, only making scars that were often tender to the touch, and ugly.”

— Charles Todd

“What he didn't know was that he always would and that in all those important moments that were yet to come to pass in…

— Dorothea Benton Frank

“Time doesn't heal the wounds; it masks them. It takes them and makes them something else. Some scars always remain. Some wounds always remain…

— Joann Buchanan

“It had occurred, it had happened , and could never in his life be unhappened, never removed, a huge deadly black scar lasting forever.”

— Iris Murdoch

“As men who naturally understand their own condition avoid nothing so much as rest, so there is nothing they leave undone in seeking turmoil.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Character is much easier kept than recovered, and that man, if any such there be, who, from sinister views, or littleness of soul, lends…

— Thomas Paine