Paulo Coelho Quotes

You must hurt, or be hurt.

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

What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.

Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

To be alive at all is to have scars.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

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.

Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up...

Scars crossed her welded wrists.

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

Each of us is the sum of our scars.

Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.

When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.

These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.

Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.

The scars will take me far, they always do.

I don't want to die without scars.