84 Scar Tissue Quotes
Following is our list of scar tissue quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about tissue.
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Famous Scar Tissue Quotes
Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough. — Aisha Tyler
A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. — Leonard Cohen
What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar. — Marilyn Manson
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. — Leonard Cohen
Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing. — Linda Hogan
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. — Harry Crews
A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived. — Chris Cleave
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. — Cormac McCarthy
Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons. — Wallace Stegner
Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars. — Jane Yolen
Scars are beautiful when we see them as glorious reminders that we courageously survived. — Lysa TerKeurst
Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Life goes on but the scars remain. — Lil Wayne
I grow wiser with every scar. — Andrew Tate
From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived." — Craig Scott
Short Scar Tissue Quotes
- I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned — Carrie Underwood
- Bones heal, pain is temporary, and chicks dig scars — Evel Knievel
- Because nobody goes through life without a scar. — Carol Burnett
- Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime. — Mineko Iwasaki
- Be proud of your scars. They remind you that you have the will to live. — Paulo Coelho
- Dura est manus cirurgi, sed sanans. The hand of the surgeon is hard, but healing. — Walter Map
- Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten. — Aesop
- A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars. — Carly Simon
- Bones heal, chicks dig scars, pain is temporary, glory is forever. — Mat Hoffman
- Do not be so quick to judge, just because you can't see the scars does not mean they are not there. — Katrina Mayer
Scar Tissue Image Quotes
Scar Quotes
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. — Kahlil Gibran
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. — Yohji Yamamoto
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
Don’t hide your scars. They make you who you are — Frank Sinatra
On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint. — C. S. Lewis
Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older. — Hans Selye
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. — Douglas Coupland
The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis. — Erich Fromm
I think people are like that. When you really look at them, you stop seeing a perfect nose or straight teeth. You stop seeing the acne scar or dimple in the chin. Those things start to blur, and suddenly you see them, the colors, the life inside the shell, and beauty takes on a whole new meaning. — Amy Harmon
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates. — Angela Carter
Tissue Quotes
The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life. — Michael Behe
We should be sensitive to the thread of silence from which the tissue of speech is woven. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
If surgeons drill out or remove too much tissue, especially the turbinates, the nose can’t effectively filter, humidify, clean, or even sense inhaled air. For this small and unfortunate group of patients, each breath comes in too quickly, a hideous condition called empty nose syndrome. — James Nestor
There's white racist DNA running through the synapses of his or her brain tissue. They will kill their own kind, defend the enemies of their kind or anyone who is perceived to be the enemy of the milky white way of life. — Jeremiah Wright
Deep breathing changes the chemistry of the body by bringing oxygen into the tissue. — Wim Hof
It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you. — Ernest Rutherford
Ovarian aging predicts aging rates in other tissues. Women reaching menopause before 40 are 2x as likely to die early than those reaching it between 50-54. Reversing ovarian aging may help reverse overall aging. In mice we've done it. — David Sinclair
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links. — Ben Hecht
Cold exposure may reduce inflammation in the brain by reprogramming the immune system. Cold promotes the browning of adipose tissue, which creates an energetic trade-off at the expense of T cell activation: a benefit in the context of neuroinflammation. — Rhonda Patrick
Tissue Paper Quotes
I think people should have fun with fashion, should enjoy wearing beautiful clothes--but also not save everything for the best. Fashion is there to be enjoyed, to be indulged--to wow in. Don't save it for Sunday best only. Get it out of the tissue paper and be sensational every day. — John Galliano
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
Our child will not be raised in tissue paper! We don't even want her to hear the word princess. — Juliana of the Netherlands
I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one. — Angela Carter
The dignity of man was everywhere tissue-paper thin. — Dick Francis
Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance. — Tove Jansson
Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp. — Margaret Atwood
The days of my youth, as I look back on them, seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation car. — Vladimir Nabokov
People Writing About Scar Tissue
More Scar Tissue Quotes
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. — Wallace Stegner
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
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
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on. — Henry Rollins
Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts. — William James Mayo
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
It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your life, every once in a while something comes up that plays "gotcha," and for a moment or two the scar tissue separates and the wound is raw again. — Mary Higgins Clark
Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. — Henry Rollins
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
I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived. — Holly Marie Combs
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
I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue. — Alexander Haig
Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue. — Stephen King
My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife. — David Lange
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. — Henry Rollins
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
End-stage liver disease refers to a liver that's failing, and a very high percentage of those livers are what we call cirrhotic, or the patient's liver has become cirrhotic, and what cirrhosis is, is the scarring of the liver tissue. — John Roberts
Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it. — Henry Rollins
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
Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin. — Alane Ferguson
Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue. — George Will
like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone. — Jennifer Stone
Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill. — Michael Ignatieff
That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living. — Margaret Millar
I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. ... They talk like me, like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful! — Willie Pastrano
I had that in Sochi, then this year I got plantar fasciitis in my right foot. That's what has been really bugging me. It's a lot of scar tissue on the bottom of my right foot and (I feel it) every time when I pick for a flip or a Lutz. But mostly when I land on it, I can feel it the most. It's still not healed, it's still bugging me here, but I'm doing what I can. — Gabrielle Daleman
You dig deep beyond those scars and find that soft tissue again, and you massage and nurture it and bring it to life, little by little, through serving yourself well. I did it through hikes and vitamins and therapy and prayer and good friends. — Katy Perry
I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up. That's the magic key! The text comes by itself, and its meaning shakes the soul. You mustn't let scar tissue form on your wounds; you have to keep ripping them open in order to turn your insides into a marvelous instrument that is capable of anything. All this has its price. — Klaus Kinski
We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place. — Michael Chabon
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