When the wound/ No longer hurts/ The scar does.
...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.
The wounds of conscience always leave a scar.
The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.
Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.
Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.
It's never come easy for me. I don't think my mind allows me to rest ever. I have, I think, a chip on my shoulder, and some deep scars that I don't think were healed.
When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my right eyebrow obviously.
Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far, did you lose yourself somewhere out there, did you get to be a star, and don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are?
A lot of my wounds have healed. They have left scars, and I can either hide my scars, put a long sleeve shirt on, and cover them up. Or, I can show them off and say, "Yeah, it happened."
I healed. Not completely. A scar is never the same as good flesh, but it stops the bleeding.
....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.
That’s an unfortunate place for a birthmark,” I said, more than a little unnerved that it was so similarly positioned to my own scar. Patch casually but noticeably slid his sleeve down over his wrist. “You’d prefer it someplace more private?” “I wouldn’t prefer it anywhere.” I wasn’t sure how this sounded and tried again. “I wouldn’t care if you didn’t have it at all.” I tried a third time. “I don’t care about your birthmark, period.
Never ran away for the sake of scars.
My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.' I know that. It's on your face, son. Like a scar.' Eddie was fascinated by the idea of duty and ka as something that left a mark, something that might look like decoration to one eye and disfigurement to another. Outside, thunder cracked and lightning flashed.
In Olympia, Washington, many of us were writing songs that were the equivalent of bloodletting: This is the sound a wound makes; this is the screech of a scar. But Mary Timony was always more kaleidoscope than microscope, creating magical worlds replete with weaponry or sorcery.
I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a LOT of scars.
A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
You can’t walk away from someone you love, leave them drowning in your desertion. If love has no more meaning than that, you can keep it. I don’t want it now or ever again. Don’t want to hear the word or wear its scars.
I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.
Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.
It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world that they don’t care if that mark is a scar.
The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well.
Once I fell out of a tree and was hit by a motorbike. I still have the scar on my head now.
