Scar Tissue Quotes

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  It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

  Rose Kennedy

  Time, Pain, Get Well

  Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”

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

  Henry Rollins

  Life, Stay Strong, Moving

  Henry Rollins (1992). “Art to choke hearts ; & Pissing in the gene pool: collected writing 1985-1987”, 2 13 61

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• I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

  Henry Rollins

  Inspirational, Life, Friends

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.283, Villard

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

  Wallace Stegner

  Broken Heart, Encouragement, Inspirational Life

  Wallace Stegner (1990). “The Spectator Bird”, p.21, Penguin

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• And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Memorable, Forever

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.53, Ballantine Books

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• I'm a catalyst for change. You can't be an outsider and be successful over 30 years without leaving a certain amount of scar tissue around the place.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Success, Business, Years

  "Rupert Murdoch: Protector of the printed word" by James Robinson, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2009.

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• It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

  Henry Rollins

  Relationship, Sad, Life And Death

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• I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.

  Henry Rollins

  Believe, Oneself, Reinvention

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.283, Villard

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• I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Art, Thinking, Mind

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• When I do think, ‘Man a f—cking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars worth of narcotics would do me right,’ I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster’s never seen me high.

  Anthony

  Dog, Couple, Men

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• When you start putting pen to paper, you see a side of your personal truth that doesn't otherwise reveal itself in conversation or thought.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Paper, Sides, Conversation

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• Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it.

  Henry Rollins

  Half, Life Is, Dealing With It

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• If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you

  Henry Rollins

  Wall, Writing, Night

  Henry Rollins (1996). “Do I Come Here Often”, 2.13.61 Publications

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• I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

  Henry Rollins

  Pain, Thinking, Feelings

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• Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Blood, Guy, Different

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• We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Balance, Littles, Way

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• Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul.

  Henry Rollins

  Unconditional Love, Soul, Half

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• Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the pain. Time is neither scalpel nor bandage. It is indifferent. Scar tissue is not a good thing. It is merely the wound's other face.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Pain, Coffins, Tissues

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

  Jennifer Stone

  Mother, Tissues, Scar

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• Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

  George Will

  Chicago, Fans, Tissues

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• If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping.

  Hulk Hogan

  Judging, Rope, Tissues

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• Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant; once they've cut you a couple of million times, their edges blunt on your scar tissue, they wear thin. The ones that slice like razors forever are the ghosts of things that never got the chance to happen.

  Tana French

  Couple, Cutting, Forever

  Tana French (2012). “Broken Harbour: Dublin Murder Squad: 4. Winner of the LA Times Book Prize for Best Mystery/Thriller and the Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction Book of the Year”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much again. I'm still a little bent, a little crooked, but all things crooked, I can't complain. After all those years of all kinds of abuse and crashing into trees at eighty miles an hour and jumping off buildings and living through overdoses and liver disease, I feel better now than I did ten years ago. I might have some scar tissue, but that's alright, I'm still making progress.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Feel Better, Jumping, Years

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• If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don't. It's like a human body, you see. A few cuts and bruises here and there don't hurt it. Not even major surgery if it's done properly. Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make.

  Douglas Adams

  Hurt, Cutting, Space

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slip cover. It shields and disguises what's beneath. That's why we grow it; we have something to hide.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Character, Wrinkles, Hair

  FaceBook post by Susanna Kaysen from Mar 08, 2016

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