Chris Cleave Quotes

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.

Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.

All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor.

...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)

The beauty's in the scars.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

All this pain is going to come back and make me stronger.

I found strength in what hurt me. And in my family - that's my strength as well. I'm truly grateful to be hurt as many times as I have, because I'm happy!

If something hurtful enters your body, you create something beautiful to protect yourself from it. That's my philosophy.

Injuries make you stronger.

Scars are a truly beautiful thing. Yes, they can be a little ugly on the outside, but scars show that you're a survivor, that you made it through something, and not only did you make it through, but now you're stronger and wiser and more educated because of that tough time that you went through.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

The one thing all that battle taught me, is that no one walks away without scars. No one. (Bad Moon Rising)

Scars remind me of just how far that I've come.

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

But...as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive. I mean, I know it could have been worse--a lot worse-- but for me, it was all I could have handled at the time. And I learned from it.

my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.