Top 44 Scar Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Scar Quotes from famous people such as Hans Selye, Christy Turlington, Jeff Green, Antony Starr, Karin Slaughter, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
Hans Selye
Women are more likely to have a ruptured uterus if they’ve had multiple C-sections because there’s more scar tissue.
Christy Turlington
Every morning waking up and every night going to bed, I look at my scar. And I tell the Lord, ‘Thank you for the blessing that He’s given me to keep living, to keep playing, just to continue to breathe everyday.’
Jeff Green
I had a job when I was 15 working at a supermarket, and I knocked over a stack of plastic coffee cups. In my anger, I threw one at a concrete wall, and it rebounded back into my head and cut my head open. Stupidest way to get a scar, but it’s one that I have.
Antony Starr
I busted my chin open trying to be Evel Knievel on my bike. When it happened, you could see straight through to the bone, I thought my dad was going to pass out. It left a scar that I still have now.
Karin Slaughter
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
Thomas Hardy
I have a big scar in my thigh from a dog bite by my German shepherd. His name was Ripper. He was trying to get in a fight with another dog, and I tried to break it up, and he got me pretty good.
Alex Rodriguez
But I do, like proper cooks, have an oven burn on my arm. I ran it under the tap for a couple of minutes but then the biscuits I’d made were cool enough to eat and I had to make a choice. Tiny scar and full belly it is then.
Sarah Millican
I don’t want to scar people with my baby flab. I have this extra skin that’s hanging. I’m in shape, but my skin, from having a baby, is not cute, hanging off of my baby.
Kendra Wilkinson
This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That’s my big scar story. I really have no major scars.
Lewis Black
I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don’t look it.
Lauren Bacall
I love showing my scar on my tummy – it is shaped like a question mark.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
It’s illegal in the U.S., but I had it done in Mexico. They break the floating rib in the back and push it in, so there’s no scar.
Amanda Lepore
My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.
Carly Simon
Bio-Oil is the best scar and stretchmark prevention/remedy. I swear by the entire range of Vea Oleo – their lip balm is great. I use the one in tubes for my son Otto’s winter skin dryness.
Margherita Missoni
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Wallace Stegner
I have a scar on my forehead. I was three years old, jumping on the bed with my brothers, and I fell off and hit my head on the dresser and cut it open, went to the hospital, got stitches, came home, went back on the bed, jumped with my brothers, fell again, and reopened the stitches.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler
I have a scar on my left thigh, kind of almost near my knee. I essentially fell in the 2002 Olympics and when I hit the wall – because of the impact – my right leg kind of came in at like a knife-type angle and stabbed my leg with my own skate blade.
Apolo Ohno
I got scars on my face that tell some kind of story. I’m looking in the mirror, and I got one scar that’s really two scars – half from a baseball bat and half from playing football in college. I’ll tell you, though, after a while, your face gets so wrinkled up you can hardly see them.
Kris Kristofferson
I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don’t look it.
Lauren Bacall
When I was a kid, I was at a bowling alley and I ran into a soda machine. I still have the scar on my right eyebrow obviously.
Luke Perry
I have scars on my knee from an ACL surgery. I have a scar on my ankle from ankle surgery. I have a scar on my left hand from hand surgery.
Bret Bielema
I’ve a tiny little scar on my chin from when I fell over on stage, bust my chin open and bled everywhere.
Kate Nash
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
Henry Rollins
On my left knee I have a long scar from an ACL operation. I’ve had both knees reconstructed.
Joe Rogan
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Once I fell out of a tree and was hit by a motorbike. I still have the scar on my head now.
Nobu Matsuhisa
I’ve got a scar on my shin from when I got shot in New York when I was 17. I was outside a McDonald’s and somebody shot a gun from a car, and the bullet grazed my leg.
Laila Rouass
‘Scar Tissue’ is the only book I’ve ever written when I’ve felt completely toxic, ill.
Michael Ignatieff
You always notice a facelift on a woman. It’s a tightness around the ears, and the scar is usually inside the ears. If I suspect it’s been done, I usually move around until I can see it. But with a man, it actually pulls your beard and your sideburns back, and that’s what’s so strange.
Tom Ford
I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.
Carly Simon
My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with

My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You’ve been with me on every road I’ve taken. My scar and my protection.
Marina Tsvetaeva
The Joker that Christopher Nolan created in ‘The Dark Knight’ had the scar across his mouth, and the first time you heard his explanation for it, he makes you believe that’s how he got it. But then you get into the film, and every time he talks about his scar, it’s a totally different story.
The Weeknd
I wear glasses, have a big scar, I sing loud, and I am blond. I’m sorry!
Anastacia
You have to trust your government. Don’t let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.
Salman Khurshid
Every actor who has done an action film has a little tiny scar somewhere from that.
Maggie Grace
I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actually beautiful and not something that marred you.
Nick Nolte
It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Funny enough, you know who I used to really like in Lion King? It was Scar.
Burna Boy
No, I don’t want them to remove my scar. Scars are cool.
Natalia Lafourcade
People would say: ‘Look what he has on his face, look at his head. What is this scar? It’s so ugly.’ Wherever I went, people would look at me. And not because I was a good person or because my name is Franck or was a good footballer, but because of the scar.
Franck Ribery
I got a tooth bust by somebody who decided they didn’t like me and I thought the moustache hid a scar on my lip. It’s true that people were told facial hair was not appreciated by the British public, but I just decided to keep the moustache.
Bob Ainsworth
Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people’s conscience.
Hjalmar Schacht
In every generation, there are horrors that define an age and events that scar the global conscience.
Douglas Alexander