It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion, there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting.
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.
It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone.
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.
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?
I think we're all wounded, but some of us, when we experience the healing of those wounds, that they scar and scab over.
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.
In every generation, there are horrors that define an age and events that scar the global conscience.
A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.
Blair has called Africa 'a scar on our conscience'. It is more. It is the gaping wound of the world's soul.
Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.
Because I have the scar, people are like, "Who did you play in the film?," and I tell them, "The girl with the scar," and then they're like, "Oh, yeah!" I think most people expect me to have the scar.
I always wanted to do something related to the camera. When you are young, these are dreams you feel embarrassed talking about. You don't want to be made fun of. That would leave a scar on an young mind.
What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.
Wounds sustained for the sake of conscience carry their own balsam with the blow.