Scar Tissue Quotes:

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

- Henry Rollins

topic: Half, Life Is, Scar Tissue

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

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

topic: Time, Pain, Get Well, Time Heals All, Time Heals All Wounds

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

- Henry Rollins

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

topic: Life, Stay Strong, Moving, Strength And Wisdom, Scar Tissue

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Friends, Reinvention, Scar Tissue

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

- Wallace Stegner

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

topic: Broken Heart, Encouragement, Inspirational Life, Calluses, Scar Tissue

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

topic: Travel, Memorable, Forever, Scar Tissue

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

topic: Successful, Years, Leaving, Catalyst For Change, Scar Tissue

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

- Henry Rollins

topic: Relationship, Sad, Life And Death, Sympathy Condolences, Lost Friend

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

- Anthony Kiedis

topic: Art, Thinking, Mind, Scar Tissue

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

topic: Dog, Couple, Men, Motels, Scar Tissue

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

topic: Paper, Sides, Conversation, Personal Truth, Scar Tissue

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

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

topic: Wall, Writing, Night, Ink And Paper, Candlelight

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

topic: Pain, Thinking, Feelings, Scar Tissue

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

- Anthony Kiedis

topic: Blood, Guy, Different, Blood Type, Scar Tissue

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

topic: Balance, Littles, Way, Scar Tissue

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

- Henry Rollins

topic: Unconditional Love, Soul, If You Love Someone, Scar Tissue

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

topic: Pain, Way, Faces, Jericho Barrons, Scalpels

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

- Jennifer Stone

topic: Mother, Tissues, Scar, Scar Tissue

Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

- George Will

topic: Chicago, Fans, Tissues, Chicago Cubs, Cubs

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

topic: Judging, Rope, Tissues, Popping, Scar Tissue

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

source: 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

topic: Couple, Cutting, Forever, Scar Tissue

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

topic: Feel Better, Jumping, Years, Jumping Off, Liver Disease

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

source: 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

topic: Hurt, Cutting, Space, Cuts And Bruises, Scar Tissue

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

source: FaceBook post by Susanna Kaysen from Mar 08, 2016

topic: Character, Wrinkles, Hair, Girl Interrupted, Scar Tissue

There are many different causes of the scarring. Viruses are common. Hepatitis B, hepatitis C, what we call autoimmune diseases where the body attacks the liver itself such as primary biliary cirrhosis is an autoimmune disease; sclerosing cholangitis is an autoimmune disease; and so those diseases where the liver is being destroyed by either the virus or an autoimmune disease, it can only scar, and why it doesn't regenerate has to do with the fact that there is this ongoing scar tissue that blocks that regeneration.

- John Roberts

source: Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org

topic: Block, Viruses, Different, Hepatitis, Cirrhosis

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.

- Alexander Haig

topic: Political, Tissues, Politics, Scar Tissue

Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.

- Michael Ignatieff

topic: Book, Tissues, Toxic, Scar Tissue

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

source: "Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski". Book by Klaus Kinski, p. 72-73, 1996.

topic: Letting Go, Order, Keys, Scar Tissue

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

source: Margaret Millar (2017). “Do Evil in Return”, p.73, Soho Press

topic: Years, Design, Together, Scar Tissue

Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.

- William James Mayo

source: William James Mayo (1921). “In the time of Henry Jacob Bigelow”

topic: Teacher, Science, Experience, Scar Tissue

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

topic: Land, Feet, Years, Scar Tissue, Sochi

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

source: Stephen King (2014). “Mr. Mercedes: A Novel”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

topic: Life, Stars, Lying, Only Thing That Matters, Scar Tissue

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

topic: Doctors, Able, Uterus, Grand Canyon, Canyons

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

topic: Beautiful, Eye, Rocks, Scar Tissue