“What doesn't kill you is gonna leave a scar.”

“As the mist leaves no scar
On the dark green hill
So my body leaves no scar
On you and never will”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

“What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.”

Abraham Polonsky (1910–1999) American politician

“This is something you can never erase. It leaves a scar on you.”

Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist

“And you haven’t been betrayed yet, Nick. You don’t know what that’s like. What it does to you. The scars it leaves that never fade. (Ambrose)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

“Love leaves scars.”

Stephen King book Joyland

“Television leaves no external scars.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Have Space Suit—Will Travel

“It doesn't matter what it is that leaves a hole inside you. It just matters that it’s there.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

“Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

“The wounds of the spirit heal and leave no scars.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher