Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 31
“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
“The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”
Variant: Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Source: The Spectator Bird
“My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.”
Source: A Dictionary of New Zealand Political Quotations (2000), p. 96.
Young India (1 May 1922)
1920s
Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
“These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.”
Source: Diving Into the Wreck
“The most important civil liberty… is to stay alive and to be free from violence and death…”
Terrorism Summit http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/id-cards-on-table-at-terror-summit/2005/08/05/1123125891748.html?oneclick=true (Friday, 5 August 2005)
“Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.”
Source: The Scar
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Context: 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.
