Scar Quotes - Page 22

• I had six silly tattoos done when I was young and I bitterly regret them. I've thought about laser surgery, but that leaves a scar, so I'm just leaving them.

  Andre Benjamin

  Tattoo, Regret, Silly

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some people read palms to tell your future, but I read hands to tell your past. Each scar makes a story worth telling. Each callused palm, each cracked knuckle is a missed punch or years in a factory.

  Sarah Kay

  Past, Hands, Years

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• I always prefer the big laugh. That is always the objective, especially with a film like Scary Movie 2

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Laughing, Scary, Comedy

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• And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul.

  Richard Selzer

  Soul, Body, Poet

  Richard Selzer (1996). “Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.

  Vincent D'Onofrio

  Hurt, Distance, Book

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Each scar's a cipher rimmed with old barbs and landmines, protecting its truth.

  J. L. B. Smith

  Ciphers, Self Mutilation, Landmines

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• And I know these scars will bleed, but both of our hearts believe all of these stars will guide us home

  Ed Sheeran

  Stars, Believe, Home

  Song: All of the Stars, 2014

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• We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

  Mark Lawrence

  Men, Clothes, Degrees

  Mark Lawrence (2012). “King of Thorns”, p.110, Penguin

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• Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh. -An-mei

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Skins, Flesh

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.48, Penguin

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• I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it.

  Maya Lin

  Pain, Cutting, Loss

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• If two lives join, there is oft a scar. They are one and one, with a shadowy third; One near one is too far.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Two, Thirds

  'By the Fireside' (1855) st. 46

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• Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Beautiful, World, Said

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• I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

  Famke Janssen

  Two, Shining, Scary

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• Even if I could, I wouldn't. Scars can come in handy. I have one myself above my left knee that is a perfect map of the London Underground.

  J. K. Rowling

  Perfect, Maps, Knees

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• What all the ads and whorescopes seemed to imply was that if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, your choice of Scotch in bars - you would meet a beautiful powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever.

  Erica Jong

  Beautiful, Stars, Powerful

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• Most dreams die a slow death. They're conceived in a moment of passion, with the prospect of endless possibility, but often languish and are not pursued with the same heartfelt intensity as when first born. Slowly, subtly, a dream becomes elusive and ephemeral. People who've lost their own dreams become pessimists and cynics. They feel like the time and devotion spent on chasing their dreams were wasted. The emotional scars last forever.

  Dean Karnazes

  Dream, Passion, Emotional

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.78, Atlantic Books

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• My thoughts are messy, my emotions are messy, my body goes in and out at will. The raised white scars on my arms and legs are the only aspect of my being that comes close to minimalism. They came from chaos, but it is hard to carve frustration and unease into the flesh. Only straight lines.

  Emma Forrest

  Frustration, White, Body

  Emma Forrest (2007). “Thin Skin”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you.

  Nick Nolte

  Beautiful, Mother, Men

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• A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were dull with anger disguised as apathy. If she kept on her current path, she'd grow into the type of person who fed her kids Doritos for breakfast and purchased angry bumper stickers with lots of exclamation points. But right now, she was just another in a long line of pissed-off small-town girls with a shitty outlook.

  Dennis Lehane

  Girl, Kids, Eye

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• ...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Grief, Broken, Half

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• ...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.

  Tori Amos

  Healing, Has Beens, Devoted

  Tori Amos, Ann Powers (2008). “Tori Amos: Piece by Piece”, p.154, Crown Archetype

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• There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with beauty. It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different. And there can be a beauty in individualism. If there is a wart or a scar, this can be beautiful, in a sense, when you paint it.

  Jenny Saville

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.

  William Shenstone

  Friendship, Passion, Tree

  William Shenstone (1765). “Essays on men and manners. A description of the Leasowes, the seat of the late William Shenstone, esq., by R. Dodsley. Verses to Mr. Shenstone”, p.142

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• It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here.

  Reggie Jackson

  New York, Boys, Scratches

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its calloused arms and hide from the world in its foliage. Apart from the pleasure of looking down on unsuspecting adults, I could be Robin Hood in a one-tree Sherwood Forest or Johnny Weissmuller in his jungle. I fell out of my friend once while Tarzan-ing. Gashed a large chunk from a leg. Almost 70 years later, there's still a scar.

  Phillip Adams

  Years, Grandpa, Tree

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