Psychological Scars Quotes

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.

The wounds of conscience always leave a scar.

I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.

I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.

For those who need a name, there's a gift basket of medical terms. All I know is cutting made me feel safe. It was proof. Thoughts and words, captured where I could see them and track them. The truth, stinging, on my skin, in a freakish shorthand. Tell me you're going to the doctor, and I'll want to cut worrisome on my arm. Say you've fallen in love and I buzz the outlines of tragic over my breast. I hadn't necessarily wanted to be cured.

Hate builds up from the childhood when your world was a slum, but you haven't got the right to blow it to kingdom come.

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

People always remember the worst day of their lifes. It becomes a part of them forever.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

There are ghosts everywhere," Ser Jorah said softly. "We carry them with us wherever we go.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

Childhood was the germ of all mistrust. You were cruelly joked upon and then you cruelly joked. You lost the remembrance of pain through inflicting it.

The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.

...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]." Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever.

Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.

I'll tell you, when you have wounds that are as deep as were caused by the genocide, the first thing you do is try to create some way to pull the wound together. And it may be artificial until the skin grows back.

All of the sudden, my right leg caved in. I crumpled to the floor in pain. The doctor weren't sure I'd ever be able to play again...and even if I did recover physically, the psychological scars of so traumatic an injury might never heal.

Mental wounds not healing, who and what's to blame. I'm going off the rails on a crazy train.

...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.

Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.

My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.

Your character defects are not where you're bad, but where you're wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it's yours now and you're responsible for it.