45 Quotes About Scars

Scars tell a story all their own, a narrative etched into the skin that speaks of challenges faced and battles fought. Whether the result of a physical encounter or an emotional journey, each scar carries with it a unique tale of resilience and growth. In this blog post, we have gathered a carefully curated collection of 45 powerful quotes about scars. These quotes highlight the beauty and strength found in our imperfections and remind us of the courage it takes to weather life's storms. As you delve into these words, may you find inspiration and a deeper appreciation for the scars that make us who we are.

1. “I don't want to die without any scars.” - Chuck Palahniuk

2. “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

3. “Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.” - R.A. Salvatore

4. “Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.” - China Miéville

5. “Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.” - Cormac McCarthy

6. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” - Rumi

7. “The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.” - Wallace Stegner

8. “The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to understand that he was the kind who didn't like to turn away from another's pain, the kind who couldn't put a pillow over his ears to drown out the cries of strangers. Those scars he had were badges of courage, and Willie knew that there were others hidden beneath his clothes, and still more deep inside, right beneath the skin and down to the soul. No, it was just that whatever goodness was there coexisted with rage and grief and loss.” - John Connolly

9. “Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.” - Linda Hogan

10. “On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.” - Chris Cleave

11. “I first became fascinated with the Sears catalogue because all the people in its pages were perfect. Nearly everybody I knew had something missing, a finger cut off, a toe split, an ear half-chewed away, an eye clouded with blindness from a glancing fence staple. And if they didn't have something missing, they were carrying scars from barbed wire, or knives, or fishhooks. But the people in the catalogue had no such hurts. They were not only whole, had all their arms and legs and eyes on their unscarred bodies, but they were also beautiful.” - Harry Crews

12. “I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.” - Yohji Yamamoto

13. “Scars are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be learned from...evidence of wounds...wounds inflicted of mistakes...wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mistakes again.” - Marcia Lynn McClure

14. “Maybe I should find another doctor; one who realizes the importance of scars.” - Rasmenia Massoud

15. “As I handed her the bag, the old scars on my wrist throbbed with buried memories.” - Maggie Stiefvater

16. “Jealous?...Of what? I don't want a foul scar right across my head, thanks. I don't think getting your head cut open makes you that special, myself.” - J.K. Rowling

17. “Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever.” - Vince McKewin

18. “I have walked a stair of swords,I have worn a coat of scars.I have vowed with hollow words,I have lied my way to the stars-Songs of Sapphique” - Catherine Fisher

19. “Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.” - Wallace Stegner

20. “Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.” - Sherrilyn Kenyon

21. “The marks humans leave are too often scars.” - John Green

22. “I want to leave a mark.But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars.” - John Green

23. “I understood now: how nothing looked more beautiful than that scar of his, that borderline that separated what Jacob could have been had he stayed in that orphanage from who he is.” - Justina Chen Headley

24. “...real childhood scars heal, but not when band-aids replace self-reflection.” - Cameron Conaway

25. “I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.” - Ann Aguirre

26. “The scars weren’t overly red, but faded, some just light lines on my skin. Some of them I could cover with makeup, while others would never truly disappear. I felt like they completed me. A reflection of the way I felt inside."---Lo The Wild Hunt” - Ashley Jeffery

27. “...the wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ...” - John Geddes

28. “Other times, I look at my scars and see something else: a girl who was trying to cope with something horrible that she should never have had to live through at all. My scars show pain and suffering, but they also show my will to survive. They're part of my history that'll always be there.” - Cheryl Rainfield

29. “Scars are just another kind of memory.” - M.L. Stedman

30. “If I don’t wear anything, I’d probably make the food go off, and the children run away screaming. What with all the scars and all. I’m not what one could call particularly pretty.” Unlike you, Vadim, and your goddamned perfection, except for a word cut in blood and flesh.Vadim shook his head, already retreating towards the open door. “'Pretty' is different,” he murmured. “'Pretty' has no scars. You are... Jaw muscles tensed again. “Like the morning sky in Afghanistan. Not ‘pretty’. Word’s ‘breathtaking’.” - Aleksandr Voinov

31. “But not all scars showed, did they?” - Eileen Wilks

32. “The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was granite, with a glistening line of sweat just below his hair line. He'd never forget this night, the detective knew, no matter what else happened for the rest of his life. They were all getting scars on their souls, the sort of scars people got in the Dark Ages, when they believed in devils and black magic. ("Speak To Me Of Death")” - Cornell Woolrich

33. “Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.” - Erin McCarthy

34. “I don't understand women that call themselves a "bitch". It doesn't empower a woman. Rather, it reveals to everyone that you were deeply hurt at one time. Because of the pain your still carrying, you will continue to hurt anyone that reminds you of those moments when you let your guard down and were fooled. Sadly, it sends a clear message to the observant that you are still hurt. If only women would realize that "we all" have moments of stupidity then they would stop comparing themselves to the masses.” - Shannon L. Alder

35. “Some people, like my dad, have invisible scars; others, like Tia, have scars you can see.” - Glenda Millard

36. “You really need stitches," she tells me."Or you're going to have a scar." I try not to laugh. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broken with me is on the inside. "I can handle scars, especially one's on the outside.” - Jessica Sorensen

37. “They're just scars. They're not you.” - Laura Jarratt

38. “I was girly and friendly and my family life was happy but many days I felt like I was on the inside what Chase was on the outside. I always believed I was a happy person with a sad soul. I felt like I had had tragedy in my life when I hadn’t. Somehow, without having experienced what he had, his scars resonated with me.” - Kimberly Novosel

39. “Sometimes it's the scars that remind you that you survived. Sometimes the scars tell you that you have healed.” - Ashley D. Wallis

40. “Injuries heal, but wrinkles are the scars of time.” - Bauvard

41. “...there's the suffering from love and the suffering from grief - either pain permanently scars the soul...” - John Geddes

42. “Scars are an affirmation of living.” - Joshua Wisenbaker

43. “No matter how long it takes to heal...we share the same scars...” - Daniel Yanez

44. “That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times when she felt hideously ugly, as though the scars that had been left behind were visible to everyone.” - Nicholas Sparks

45. “I got a body covered in scars, but then who doesn’t? If you don’t have a few scars, you haven’t really lived.” - Lexi Blake