„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.“

—  Wallace Stegner, kniha The Spectator Bird

Varianta: Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to
wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Zdroj: The Spectator Bird

„My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.“

—  David Lange New Zealand politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand 1942 - 2005

Zdroj: A Dictionary of New Zealand Political Quotations (2000), p. 96.

„We have the idea that our hearts, once broken, scar over with an indestructible tissue that prevents their ever breaking again in quite the same place…“

—  Michael Chabon, kniha The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Zdroj: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

„Her life was a tissue of vanity and deceit.“

—  Virginia Woolf, kniha Mrs Dalloway

Zdroj: Mrs. Dalloway

„Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.“

—  Augusten Burroughs American writer 1965

Zdroj: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

„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.“

—  Douglas Adams, kniha Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (1987)
Kontext: 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.

„It has been said that time heals all wounds, I don't agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but is never gone.“

—  Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy 1890 - 1995

Varianta: It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

„I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet-tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.“

—  Erma Bombeck When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and coul… 1927 - 1996

„The capacity for denial is an example of the body's sometimes short-sighted vision. Some of the body's automatic responses hurt over the long run more than they help. The formation of scar tissue, for example, prevents the nerves in the spine from reconnecting after an accident. In many injuries, swelling causes more damage than the original trauma.“

—  Marilyn Ferguson American writer 1938 - 2008

The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Three, Brains Changing, Minds Changing

„To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.“

—  Henri-Frédéric Amiel Swiss philosopher and poet 1821 - 1881

Journal Intime (1882), Journal entries
Kontext: In the conduct of life, habits count for more than maxims, because habit is a living maxim, becomes flesh and instinct. To reform one's maxims is nothing: it is but to change the title of the book. To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits.

„He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.“

—  O. Henry American short story writer 1862 - 1910

Zdroj: Selected Stories

„The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.“

—  Ben Hecht American screenwriter 1894 - 1964

Books

„Soldiering has made a new man of me, regular hours and good plain food have done much to build up my strength and stamina. I feel stronger than ever.“

—  Pat O'Keeffe British boxer 1883 - 1960

The People 9 May 1915.

„Suffering makes up the tissue of the existence, it is the place where the life becomes living, the reality and the phenomenological effectivity of this gradual change.“

—  Michel Henry French writer 1922 - 2002

Originál: (fr) La souffrance forme le tissu de l'existence, elle est le lieu où la vie devient vivante, la réalité et l'effectivité phénoménologique de ce devenir.
Zdroj: Michel Henry, L'Essence de la manifestation, 1963, t. 2, § 70, p. 828
Zdroj: Books on Phenomenology of Life, The Essence of Manifestation (1963)

„I'm still here mon frere I know the cross I bear,
They like, that's why they call you Hov? I'm like yea
I'm like air, little shots go through me, won't tear
One tissue no tears, no tissue not an issue“

—  Jay-Z American rapper, businessman, entrepreneur, record executive, songwriter, record producer and investor 1969

Dig a Hole
Kingdom Come (2006)

„Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.“

—  Edward Abbey American author and essayist 1927 - 1989

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

„Loki, that's me. Loki, the Light-Bringer, the misunderstood, the elusive, the handsome and modest hero of this particular tissue of lies.“

—  Joanne Harris, kniha The Gospel of Loki

Zdroj: The Gospel of Loki

„Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.“

—  Chinua Achebe Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic 1930 - 2013

Zdroj: Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays

„Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is the growth of madness denied.“

—  Norman Mailer, kniha An American Dream

Stephen Rojack, in Ch. 8
An American Dream (1965)