Scar Quotes - Page 26

• 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.

  Luke Perry

  Kids, Eyebrows, Machines

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

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• Many of the twisted minds and crippled characters in the world were made by careless parents who kept their children away from knives and fires, but put permanent scars on their souls.

  Gilbert Highet

  Children, Character, Fire

  GILBERT HIGHET (1950). “THE ART OF TEACHING”

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• After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

  Rich Mullins

  Matter, Ends, Ifs

  Concert in a Carpenter's Way Christian Church, Lufkin, Texas, July 19, 1997.

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• Our deepest, most painful wounds not only leave us with scars that we bear forever, but also, if we make our peace with them, leave us wiser, stronger, more sensitive than we otherwise would have been had we not been afflicted with them.

  Renita J. Weems

  Forever, Stronger, Bears

  Renita J. Weems (2000). “Listening For God: A Ministers Journey Through Silence And Doubt”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• The teacher not only shapes the expectations and ambitions of her pupils, but she also influences their attitudes toward their future and themselves. If she is unskilled, she leaves scars on the lives of youth, cuts deeply into their self-esteem, and distorts their image of themselves as human beings. But if she loves her students and has high expectations of them, their self-confidence will grow, their capabilities will develop, and their future will be assured.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Teacher, Attitude, Self Esteem

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• You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

  Chris Fabry

  Memories, Heart, May

  Chris Fabry, Gary D. Chapman (2011). “A Marriage Carol”, p.6, Moody Publishers

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• If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts — but it’s not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it’s any better — but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero.

  Jay-Z

  Hurt, Dad, Real

  "Jay-Z: 'Of course' I'll change baby's diapers". www.today.com. November 14, 2011.

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• We don't help people by showing them our trophies. We help them by showing them our scars.

  Mark Lowry

  People, Trophies, Helping

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• Lothaire:Hate scars. I'm physically flawless--why can't everyone be? Everywhere Lothaire went, people stopped and stared. Of course, then they usually ran.

  Kresley Cole

  Hate, People, Flawless

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• You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.

  Vanessa Kerry

  Halloween, Light, People

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• The deep inequalities that persist are visible reminders of the effects of apartheid and colonialism. Until these scars are healed, the vision of our Constitution will not have been achieved.

  Kate O'Regan

  Vision, Colonialism, Poverty

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• Being unhappy means... Even if you want to love, because of a scar, you can't. Even though you don't want to be alone, because of that scar, you can't help but be alone. Even in bright sunshine, alone, you feel like you are lost in dark darkness.

  Min Sook Lee

  Drama, Mean, Dark

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• I am a boring looking guy with a common face, ugly scars and a toothy smile.

  Farhan Akhtar

  Guy, Ugly, Faces

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• Never kiss a girl whose brothers have knife scars.

  Robert Jordan

  Girl, Brother, Kissing

  "The Fires of Heaven". Book by Robert Jordan, 1993.

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• Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

  Ivan Goncharov

  Pain, Memories, Height

  Ivan Goncharov (2006). “Oblomov: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.214, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.

  Janet Fitch

  Hurt, Way, Just Being

  Janet Fitch (2006). “White Oleander”, p.132, Hachette UK

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• Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic.

  Philip Rieff

  Love, Children, Heart

  Philip Rieff (1979). “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist”, p.164, University of Chicago Press

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• To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.

  Criss Jami

  Knowing, Weakness, Impossible

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.128, Criss Jami

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• You could spend the rest of your life trying to outlive the scars that are left by what you go through in your formative years.

  Todd Edwards

  Years, Trying, Rest Of Your Life

  Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. November 6, 2014.

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• Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.

  Michael Bassey

  Girl, Children, Men

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• As a scar commemorates what happened, so is memory but itself a scar.

  Carl Phillips

  Memories, Happened

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• Each of us is the sum of our scars.

  Matthew Woodring Stover

  Clarity

  Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.740, Del Rey

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• I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Soul, Proud, Intense

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• To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.

  Maya Rudolph

  Mother, Growing Up, Loss

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• Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always loved damaged monuments, in architecture and in humans.

  Emma Forrest

  Tattoo, Years, Architecture

  Emma Forrest (2014). “Thin Skin”, p.53, Bloomsbury Publishing

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