Bruised Quotes:

I was bruised, but I wasn’t broken.

- Sheryl Underwood

topic: Broken, Bruised

... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.

- Amelia Barr

topic: Bruised, Limitation

Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.

- Marvin J. Ashton

topic: Self Esteem, Criticism, Bruised

I wanted to be kicked and hit and bruised up and beaten. It became something that was an absolutely necessary part of every day for me.

- Jon Bernthal

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Wanted, Beaten, Bruised

She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive.

- Nora Roberts

source: J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J.D. Robb The IN DEATH Collection”, p.157, Penguin

topic: Alive, Bleeding, Bruised

The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.

- Ovid

topic: Strength, Break, Bruised

My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place to set it down to rest. Neither the charm of the countryside nor the sweet scents of a garden could soothe it. It found no peace in song or laughter, none in the company of friends at table or in the pleasures of love, none even in books or poetry.... Where could my heart find refuge from itself? Where could I go, yet leave myself behind?

- Wally Lamb

topic: Song, Sweet, Laughter, Bruised

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

- Washington Irving

topic: Change, Comfort, Relief, Stagecoaches, Life Is Changing

I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.

- Richard Marx

topic: Gone, Ribs, Realizing, Bruised

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

- Audre Lorde

topic: Inspirational, Believe, Acceptance, Intersectionality, Bruised

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse.

- Washington Irving

source: 'Tales of a Traveller' (1824) 'To the Reader'

topic: Change, Life Changing, People Changing, Stagecoaches, Life Is Changing

Life is an infiltration course. We all try and get through it. We all try and get through it unscathed - maybe not hurt, not bruised. No bones broken, maybe a few hearts here and there.

- Mickey Rooney

topic: Life, Hurt, Heart, Infiltration, Bruised

The chastisement of our peace was upon Him and with His stripes we are healed.

- Joseph Smith, Jr.

source: Joseph Smith (Jr.) (1959). “The Holy Scriptures: Containing the Old and New Testaments”

topic: Peace, Stripes, Chastisement, Bruised, Healing The Sick

Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.

- Alexander Pope

source: 'Windsor Forest' (1711) l. 11

topic: Confused, Order, Confusion, Bruised

A bruised heart that chooses to beat with a passion for God amid pulsing pain and confusion may just be the most expensive offering placed on the divine altar.

- Beth Moore

topic: Christian, Pain, Passion, Bruised, Altars

Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.

- Marianne Williamson

source: Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

topic: Heart, Effort, Protect, Bruised

When children feel understood, their loneliness and hurt diminish. When children are understood, their love for their parent is deepened. A parent's sympathy serves as emotional first aid for bruised feelings. When we genuinely acknowledge a child's plight and voice her disappointment, she often gathers the strength to face reality.

- Haim Ginott

topic: Hurt, Children, Disappointment, Bruised

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.

- Thomas S. Monson

topic: Self, Discipline, Battle, Effortless, Self Discipline

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.

- John Millington Synge

source: John Millington Synge (1999). “The Aran Islands”, p.25, Northwestern University Press

topic: Men, Islands, High Heels, Bruised

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

- Sargent Shriver

topic: Lying, Men, Roots, Bruised

First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars you bought for preserves. The next morning, birds rustled the fruit trees, and later when I twisted a ripe fig loose from its stem, I found it half eaten, the other side already rotting, or-like another I plucked and split open-being taken from the inside: a swarm of insects hollowing it. I'm too late, again, another space emptied by loss. Tomorrow, the bowl I have yet to fill.

- Natasha Trethewey

source: Natasha Trethewey (2007). “Native Guard”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Morning, Taken, Loss, Swarms, Bruised

'What about stress? Are you using your stress-management techniques when things seem to be getting on top of you?' 'Nothing is getting on top of me.' As I said it, a totally inappropriate picture popped into my mind. 'What are you feeling?' Jake's breath warm against my face, my bruised lips tingling from his kisses. 'Tell me what it feels like with me inside you.'

- Josh Lanyon

topic: Stress, Kissing, Feelings, Stress Management, Bruised

The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

source: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.844, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Flames, Broken, Smoking, Bruised, Flax

I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge-even wisdom. Like art.

- Toni Morrison

source: "No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear" by Toni Morrison, www.thenation.com. March 23, 2015.

topic: Art, Pain, Important, Malevolence, Bruised

Without God we are but bruised reeds, ever threatened by the prospect of being crushed by life’s uncaring millstone. Without God we are nothing, our lives worthless, our days an endless circular tread. Without God we stand condemned, doomed to a life without the precious gift of hope.

- T. Davis Bunn

source: T. Davis Bunn, Isabella Bunn (2004). “The Innocent Libertine (Heirs of Acadia Book #2)”, p.200, Bethany House

topic: Reeds, Uncaring, Precious Gifts, Bruised

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

- John Bunyan

source: John Bunyan (1769). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, Mr. John Bunyan: ... Being several discourses upon various divine subjects. The second edition, with the following additions: I. A preface ... II. Some account of the life and death of the author, ...”, p.506

topic: Sweet, Heart, Scent, Bruised

Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.

- Euripides

topic: Women, Earth, Herbs, Bruised

If you subscribe to the idea that #‎ addiction is a disease, it is startling to see how many of these children - paranoid, anxious, bruised, tremulous, withered, in some cases psychotic - are seriously ill, slowly dying. We'd never allow such a scene if these kids had any other disease. They would be in a hospital, not on the streets.

- David Sheff

source: David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.142, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Children, Kids, Ideas, Bruised

I've reached a point where I'm comfortable in my own skin, and I do what I need to do, to feel good, but I'm built the way I am. The dancer's feet, the bruises on my legs, they're not going to go away. I think real girls have bruises. Tough chicks get bruised. They get dirty. And they have fun.

- Nina Dobrev

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Fun, Real, Bruised, Real Girl

We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope we get to death without being badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams.

- Bob Proctor

topic: Dream, Goal, Way, Complete Life, Tiptoes

The resurrection of Christ is one of the foundation stones of Christianity. It was the seal of the great work that He came on earth to do. It was the crowning proof that the ransom He paid for sinners was accepted, the atonement for sin accomplished, the head of him who had the power of death bruised, and the victory won.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Victory, Foundation, Earth, Bruised

There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.

- Tom Odell

source: "Tom Odell: 'Having your heart broken makes for good songs'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2013.

topic: Writing, Brain, Relax, Bruised, Battered

I followed my wanderlust. It bruised me sometimes, and took me to all kinds of highs. Now that my thirst is slaked, I get to start anew.

- Elisabeth Eaves

source: Elisabeth Eaves (2011). “Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents”, p.373, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Kind, Sometimes, Thirst, Bruised

Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.

- Susannah McCorkle

topic: Bruised

When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.

- Roberto Bolano

topic: Grief, Skulls, Broken, Bruised, Cracked

Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.

- Charles Studd

topic: Loneliness, Heart, Endurance, Worn Out, Bruised

Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?

- William Butler Yeats

source: "Among School Children" l. 57 (1928) See Quarles 1

topic: Wisdom, Oil, Dancing, Chestnuts, Bruised

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know whether you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

- Oriah Dreamer

topic: Children, Grief, Night, Bruised

That's life. We all go through the tractor blades now and then. We all get bruised, and we all get cut. Sometimes the blade cuts deep. The lucky ones come through with a few scratches, a little blood, but even that isn't the most important thing. The most important thing is having someone there to scoop you up, to hold you tight, and to tell you everything is all right.

- Vicki Myron

topic: Cutting, Blood, Important, Tractors, Bruised

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

- W. Somerset Maugham

source: W. Somerset Maugham (2013). “The Essential W. Somerset Maugham Collection”, p.1614, eBookIt.com

topic: Truth, Real, Youth, Lost Youth, Bruised

It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations.

- Paul Brunton

source: Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Perspectives (posthumous)”

topic: Heart, Sacrifice, Broken, Bruised

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.

- Meghan O'Rourke

topic: Grief, Over You, Faces, Bruised, Hieroglyphics

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Alfred Harbage (1977). “The complete works”

topic: Pain, Adversity, Grieving, Bruised, Bereft

It took me a full year of black eyes and a bruised and battered tailbone to learn how to do a crippler in the half-pipe. It was a trick that no one else was really doing, and it was scary! But I stuck with it, and one day, it finally clicked. The crippler has been my signature trick ever since, and it's what helped me be so successful in competition.

- Gretchen Bleiler

topic: Eye, Successful, Years, Bruised, Battered

I want to know if you can get up after a night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and be sweet to the ones you love. I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and truly like the company you keep in the empty moments of your life.

- Jon Blais

topic: Sweet, Grief, Night, Bruised, Company You Keep

I've been beaten, I've been bruised, I was left for dead as well.

- Ronnie Radke

topic: Wells, Beaten, Left, Bruised

When you're working through the [fight] scenes, you're working on such adrenalin. And then, later, you're like, "Oh, god, my back hurts. Where did that come from?" Your entire arm can be bruised up, but you don't even think about it while you're working.

- Kate Bosworth

source: "Kate Bosworth and Danny Huston Interview THE WARRIOR'S WAY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 23, 2010.

topic: Hurt, Fighting, Thinking, Bruised, Back Hurts

It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

source: Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.555, Delphi Classics

topic: New Year, Hope, Light, Bruised

Life is a secret lease from God and we should not allow ourselves to be bruised. Family life is our strength and success.

- Joseph Losey

topic: Secret, Life Is, Should, Bruised, Lease

Writing an opera and premiering in England, you could say I was going right into the eye of the storm and I came out successfully. A little tattered and bruised, but so what, I made it.

- Rufus Wainwright

topic: Writing, Eye, Storm, Bruised, Eye Of The Storm

I am in love with this world. It has been my home. It has been my point of outlook into the universe. I have never bruised myself against it nor tried to use it ignobly.

- John Burroughs

topic: Home, Use, World, Bruised

I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. .I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, . and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout . . . "Yes." .I want to know if you can get up . weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done. .I want to know what sustains you . when all else falls away.

- Oriah Dreamer

topic: Betrayal, Fall, Lakes, Bruised