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George Gordon Byron227
English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788–1824Related quotes
“The scars remain and the wounds are still deep.”
Alex Salmond (1954) Scottish National Party politician and former First Minister of Scotland
Scottish Government's relationship with Europe (July 11, 2007)
Harry Crews (1935–2012) Novelist, short story writer, essayist
Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
Other Lyrics
Source: "The Favorite Game"
Context: Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
“without my wounds, who was i? my scars were my face, my past was my life.”
Janet Fitch book White Oleander
Source: White Oleander
“The rain
Never falls upwards.
When the wound
Stops hurting
What hurts is
The scar.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
"Poems Belonging to a Reader for Those who Live in Cities" [Zum Lesebuch für Städtebewohner gehörige Gedichte] (1926-1927), poem 10, trans. Frank Jones in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 148
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)
“The wounds of the spirit heal and leave no scars.”
John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher
“He jests at scars that never felt a wound.”
William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet
Source: Romeo and Juliet
“Even when the wound is healed, the scar remains.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 236
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Variant: Even when there is no law, there is conscience.
