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“Never shy away from opportunity and wholehearted living. Never be fearful of putting yourself out there. The courageous may encounter many disappointments, experience profound disillusionment, gather many wounds; but cherish your scars for they are the proud emblems of a truly phenomenal life. The fearful, cautious, cynical and self-repressed do not live at all. And that is simply no way to be in this world.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.”
― Dean Koontz, The Good Guy

“The most beautiful women in the world are the ones that can stand as rivals on the battlefield of love, yet they can still see each other’s pain. They can set down their swords for only just a moment to acknowledge the beauty of the warrior that stands before them—the passion, the fearlessness and the relentless fire that never gives up. It is in this moment that we learn that it is not the man that sees the worth of the hearts torn by battle in his honor; it is the women who have suffered for so long. Two women that can “see�� clearly the worth of the other, even while they grow weary from their wounds is the only kind of beauty that matters. For if there wasn’t two worthy opponents there would be no war in love.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did.”
― Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

“What is there beyond the sky?' I asked my mother.

'Paradise.'

'What does it look like?'

'Like children’s dreams.”
― Refaat Alareer, Gaza Writes Back

“Time heals all wounds. Il tempo guarisce tutti i mali. It’s been said time and time again, but what they don’t talk about are the jagged scars left behind. What they don’t tell you is that sometimes, when ignored, the wounds fester”
― J.M. Darhower, Redemption

“If I could take away his pain�� If there was a way to transfer it from his soul onto mine. I would take it. Without hesitation I would take it all. Maybe that’s how you know you love someone. When you actually feel each tear they cry as if they were your own. When you feel each cut, each bruise, each hit as if you’re the one suffering. I bled for him.& in turn, he bled for her.Funny, how life comes full circle”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic

“All that I can tell you is that nothing can justify it, not even the most sacred ends in the world, not even peace itself, understand me?'

'Yes, Mom. Nothing can justify our scars.”
― Refaat Alareer, Gaza Writes Back

“Blue-Eyed One, never again shall you cover your shoulders. I declare your scars to be medals of gallantry great than any I could bestow, and it is my will that all the Black Land look upon them, and learn the nature of courage.”
― Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Mara, Daughter of the Nile

“Pectoral implants? My God! The man's had a boob job!”
― Jackie Williams, Forever Scarred

“She kisses the shit out of me and I didn't care what I looked like after that.”
― Jackie Williams, Forever Scarred

“Please don't trouble yourself with my scars. At least not right now, OK?”
― Alex Rosa, Emotionally Compromised

“And he came to understand that the burial of the broken wasn't eccentric �� this was what people did every day, stuffing their brokenness down, pushing it down, smoothing the surface over, making the surface look like nothing was broken underneath. Because, if people see that you are broken, they will not want to stand with you. They will migrate away from you the way groups of people walking down the street will move aside when a shambling ranting man approaches. They will look at the ground and look away so that such a person becomes invisible. So if you are such a person or just an everyday person with some broken places, some places really broken, you will pull them back from view so you can mingle with others without being seen as broken. Because if you have the look of a broken thing, if you are pushed aside and turned from, you will never find your footing again in the world.”
― Lindsay Hill, Sea of Hooks

“One cannot fight for so long without the scars building on one's soul.”
― J.A. London, After Daybreak

“Scars are good. Right, Helmud? It's the body's way of making armour.”
― Julianna Baggott, Burn

“If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie’s face, then, and then only, Anne Catherick and she would be the twin-sisters of chance resemblance, the living reflections of one another.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“The scar on my chest, the beating of my heart, and the mountains that fostered my appreciation for the cold, hard, natural world—these were the few things that mattered.”
― Daniel Wallock, Right-Hearted: Finding What's Right With a Wrong-Sided Heart

“Scars are something of a body’s memoir.”
― Chris Nicolaisen, The Life and Death of the Ericsons

“Wounds may heal, but the scars remain.”
― Reyna Pryde, Bound by Sacrifice

“Time does not heal wounds. It's a body's ritual that does. The instinctual cleansing with rain or other waters, the application of salves. Despite the sting. Even neglected, the body begins to take care. To repair itself. Blood clots, tissues regenerate, flesh scars. Soon, the thin white line is the only evidence of the pain. It is the body, not time. Time does nothing except create distance between the body and that which caused it harm.
Recollection of fear can be stronger than the original fear itself. Similarly, bliss is sometimes more vivid when recollected. How else do you explain longing? Longing for what has already passed. That's the real pain.
But you insisted, you pried with your fingers to see. You retuned to me after I turned away. You made me recollect for you, collect again and again for you, interrupting the healing with your curiosity.
Now that I have given you the words, you may long for them. You may miss me. You may try to find the notes to the song again and again and won't be able to find them. Perhaps, the wounds I made will already have begun to scar. Maybe the body will have begun its ritual of forgetting.
I told you not to ask for haunted, not to ask me to recollect. Because recollection is like tearing at closed wounds. Like pealing back the careful tissue put there by the body to make it safe. And because remembered pain is always worse than the original pain, because this time it is expected. This time you already know how much it will hurt.”
― T. Greenwood

“We have our agreement about scars, I know, but this time I looked away because sometime you can see too much beauty.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

“Painful experiences are like scars in our minds. Some have healed and been forgotten. Others are there as a reminder of what we have been through��”
― James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations

“What are you doing?�� she asked.

“Getting naked.��

“What the hells for?��

“So you can be comfortable getting naked, too, so we can get some sleep.��

“How would that make me feel comfortable? In what universe would that make me feel comfortable?��

“You can see my scars.��

“I don’t want to see your scars!”
― G.A. Aiken, A Tale of Two Dragons

“All of my secrets and scars and wishes and dreams can live together in this one body without shame, without blame, and without fear. I am all loved, all accepted, and all in service to God. In his eyes, regardless of what I did or didn’t do today, I am loved. I am His, so I am enough.”
― Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

“Las cicatrices deben quedarse donde el destino las puso.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“Why won’t you look at me?�� she murmurs.
He doesn’t speak, seemingly at a loss for words.
“It’s my scars.�� It comes out as barely a whisper.
Horror spasms across his face. “What? No,�� he says, a bit breathless. “You’re beautiful. All of you.”
― Laura Kreitzer, Burning Falls

“Some of the imperfections will be visible, but this house has been here a long time. I see no reason to cover up the dings and scars. We've all got 'em.”
― Chris Coppernoll, A Beautiful Fall

“I averted my eyes, looked around, and stumbled through all the faces in the room till they finally rested on his. He was standing like a scared bird, waving one wing and using the other to hide his scar. Aya Rabah- Scars”
― Refaat Alareer, Gaza Writes Back

“For grief has always been so dear to you that you would make me writhing in pain in the brothel of your imaginations than to be playing with a bunch of balloons in the yard where I should have been."
"And may be that's why, you'd rather talk to me about this, than to write a story about me where I could live happily.”
― Sanhita Baruah

“Всички носим следи от някакво крушение. Ние сме слепци, които опипват пътя. Аз живеех в пълен мрак и нямах никакъв път.”
― Рангел Игнатов, Сбогом любов