Scars Quote by Munro Sickafoose

These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted…

— Victor Hugo

“Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones. The scars of the briar mark me, a calligraphy of…

— Mark Lawrence

“Writing writhed across the surface of the stone, runes that looked a little familiar. Norse, maybe? Some of them looked more like Egyptian. They…

— Jim Butcher

“They went forth to battle, but they always fell; Their eyes were fixed above the sullen shields; Nobly they fought and bravely, but not…

— Shaemus O'Sheel

“The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Embossed letters represent the topography of typography.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The soft throb and glow roused in my breast by the gilt letters of four or five different languages winking at me from scores…

— Ross King

“Despite all the admiration M. Swann might profess for these figures of Giotto, it was a long time before I could find any pleasure…

— Proust Marcel

“Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for…

— Dickens, Charles

“Volumes of history written in the ancient alphabet of G and C, A and T.”

— Sy Montgomery

“We know what happened to those who chanced to meet the Great God Pan, and those who are wise know that all symbols are…

— Arthur Machen

But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed but always…

— Tennessee Williams