Defeated Quote by R.D. Ronald

“Remembered pain tightened his mouth into a grim line. The weeks he’d spent looking for her had left permanent scars on his heart.”

— Tara Janzen

“His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerge charred doves.”

— Marisha Pessl

“He snarled at the image in the mirror, shattered like his soul, scarred like his skin, broken like his heart.”

— Wulf Francú Godgluck

“My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where…

— Steve Maraboli

“What really ruins our character is the fact that none of us looks back over his life.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“I remember scrutinizing his face. I remember drinking his face down to the last drop, trying to elucidate the character, the psychology of such…

— Roberto Bolaño

“The cut under his eye and the split skin on his lower lip only enhanced his profile. He didn’t look defeated. He looked like…

— Lisa Kessler

“He bears wounds only seen with the heart and the scars that have formed over the years still pain him.”

— Regan Walker

“One cannot fight for so long without the scars building on one's soul.”

— J.A. London

“This man was hurt, damaged in some fundamental way. She saw it not in those scars upon his body but in the haunted expression…

— Emily March

“The past became a long, razor-sharp skewer that stabbed right through his heart.”

— Haruki Murakami

“It was the face of a human being who’d been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but wounds. The…

— Ryu Murakami