Scarring Quotes:

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Would Be, Redemption, Scarring, Diminish

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

Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

- Linda Hogan

source: Linda Hogan (1997). “Solar Storms”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

topic: Get Well, Healing, People, Time Heals All Wounds, Pain Is Temporary

Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation.

- LeCrae

topic: Hurt, Giving, Temptation, Succumbing, Overlooked

Not everyone is okay with living like an open wound. But the thing about open wounds is that, well, you aren't ignoring it. You're healing; the fresh air can get to it. It's honest. You aren't hiding who you are. You aren't rotting. People can give you advice on how to heal without scarring badly. But on the other hand there are some people who'll feel uncomfortable around you. Some will even point and laugh. But we all have wounds.

- Warsan Shire

topic: Healing, Air, Hands, Scarring

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

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

source: Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org

topic: Tissues, Disease, Patient, Liver Disease, Cirrhosis

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

- Erica Jong

source: Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.165, Penguin

topic: Divorce, Age, Generations, Coming Of Age, Scarring

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

- Kim Stanley Robinson

topic: Mind, Age, Stronger, Scarring, Young Minds

Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

- Ben Stein

topic: Crush, Children, Parenting, Emotional Abuse, Good Parenting

He knew that Dr. Argon would advise him against bottling up his emotions as it would lead to psychological scarring in the long term.

- Eoin Colfer

topic: Long, Drs, Emotion, Scarring

My body Healed quickly. But the wound to my psyche was deep. Wide. First aid, too little, too late, left me hemorrhaging inside, the blood unstaunched by psychological bandage or love's healing magic. Eventually it scabbed over, a thick, ugly welt of memory. I work to conceal it, but no matter how hard I try, once in a while something makes me pick at it until the scarring bleeds. In my arms, Ashante cries, innocence ripped apart by circumstance. Bloodied by inhuman will. Time will prove a tourniquet. But she will always be at risk of infection. (124)

- Ellen Hopkins

source: Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

topic: Memories, Healing, Blood, Scarring

People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before the next "horrifying" event. People forget there is such a thing as memory, and that when a wound "heals" it leaves a permanent scar that never goes away, but merely fades a little. What really ought to be said after one of these so-called tragedies is, "Let the scarring begin.

- George Carlin

source: George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

topic: Memories, Healing, People, Scarring

Making fun of anyone's size, height, scarring, anything like that equals dumb.

- Kristin Chenoweth

topic: Fun, Dumb, Height, Scarring