Variant: Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Source: The Spectator Bird
“Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.”
“Civilization is a scar tissue from a past of violence and destruction.”
Source: Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 31
“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.
Sanctuary http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/wharton/books/snctr10.txt, (1903) part II, ch. IV
Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
“Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime’s worth of lessons.”
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.
