Chris Cleave Quotes

I am past scorching; not easily can’st thou scorch a scar.

This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.

I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.

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

Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.

Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.

Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright, that’s fearless too.

Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of dark corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.

Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.

I'll accept the pain and the suffering, because I know that in that there's a lot of beauty, too.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

Each of us is the sum of our scars.

....he said it was interesting. He used the word 'textured'. He said 'smooth' is boring but 'textured' was interesting, and the scar meant that I was stronger than whatever had tried to hurt me.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

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

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all. But holes are interesting things.

The scars will take me far, they always do.

Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.

Scars are reminders of the obstacles we've overcome. Wear them proudly.

I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a LOT of scars.