Broken Bone Quotes:

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

- Jessamyn West

source: Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

topic: Broken Heart, Forever, Bones, Broken Bone

The broken bone, once set together, is stronger than ever.

- John Lyly

source: Euphues

topic: Broken, Together, Stronger, Stronger Than Ever, Broken Bone

I tried to allow my children to take risks, to test themselves. Better broken bones than broken spirit.

- Rose Kennedy

topic: Children, Broken Spirit, Risk, Broken Bone

When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.

- Shia LaBeouf

topic: Wind, Broken, Bones, Broken Bone

Grief never mended no broken bones.

- Charles Dickens

source: 1836-7 Sketches by Boz,'Gin Shops'.

topic: Grief, Broken, Bones, Broken Bone

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.

- Shane Koyczan

topic: Hurt, Cutting, Heartache, Broken Bone, Heartstrings

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

- Rihanna

source: Song: S&M, Album: Loud

topic: Bullying, Dry Bones, Useless Life, Sticks And Stones, Freddy Krueger

The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Gratitude, Strong, Grateful, Purifying, Practical Experience

The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.

- Andy Behrman

topic: Broken, Guilt, Six, Mentally Ill, Broken Bone

Though we may feel we are "like a broken vessel," as the Psalmist says (Psalms 31:12), we must remember, that vessel is in the hands of the divine potter. Broken minds can be healed just the way broken bones and broken hearts are healed. While God is at work making those repairs, the rest of us can help by being merciful, nonjudgmental, and kind.

- Jeffrey R. Holland

topic: Heart, Hands, Broken, Broken Bone

How often we must remember the art of the surgeon, which, in replacing the broken bone, contents itself with releasing the parts from false position; they fly into place by the action of the muscles. On this art of nature all our arts rely.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.379

topic: Art, Nature, Broken, Broken Bone

I think you can love a person too much. You put someone up on a pedestal, and all of a sudden, from that perspective, you notice what's wrong - a hair out of place, a run in a stocking, a broken bone. You spend all your time and energy making it right, and all the while, you are falling apart yourself. You don't even realize what you look like, how far you've deteriorated, because you only have eyes for someone else.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Running, Fall, Eye, Broken Bone

I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, Whats the difference between the teachers and the students? Why are the teachers teachers if they want to be acting? It didnt make sense to me anymore. Its not like you learn how to set a broken bone and you get the stamp of approval.

- Taylor Schilling

topic: Teacher, School, Differences, Grad School, Broken Bone

Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.

- Marlene Dietrich

source: Marlene Dietrich (1962). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC.”

topic: Heart, Blue, Broken, Plasters, Prison Bars

I was just happy the fight was over, I knew my arm was broken in the fight. I definitely wasn't going to quit - I've broken bones before and continued fighting but there was a part of me wondering how I was going to.....what strategy I was going to use, to win this fight with a broken left arm in the second and third rounds

- Rich Franklin

topic: Fighting, Winning, Broken, Broken Bone

People say that time heals all wounds, and maybe they're right. But whit if the wounds don't heal correctly, like when cuts leave behind nasty scars, or when broken bones mend together, but aren't as smooth anymore? Does it mean they're really healed? Or is it that the body did what it could to fix what broke.

- Jessica Sorensen

topic: Mean, Cutting, People, Time Heals All, Time Heals All Wounds

I'm not the only kid who grew up this way, surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones, as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called, and we got called them all. So we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us, that we'd be lonely forever, that we'd never meet someone to make us feel like the sun was something they built for us in their toolshed. So broken heartstrings bled the blues, and we tried to empty ourselves so we'd feel nothing. Don't tell me that hurts less than a broken bone...

- Shane Koyczan

source: "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

topic: Lonely, Hurt, Falling In Love, Sticks And Stones, Broken Bone

In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.

- Yann Martel

topic: Taken, Years, Broken, Broken Bone

As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother's pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, 'In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes'.

- Aprilynne Pike

source: "Illusions". Book by Aprilynne Pike, 2011.

topic: Mom, Mother, Broken, Steep, Armageddon

Now I begin to be a disciple. Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

- Ignatius of Antioch

topic: Jesus, Fire, Long, Invisible Things, Broken Bone

Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace.

- Sherman Alexie

source: FaceBook post by Sherman Alexie from Jun 13, 2016

topic: Dream, Song, Wall, Penicillin, Fireplaces

As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this love is the resetting of a body of broken bones. Even saints cannot live with saints on this earth without some anguish. There are two things which men can do about the pain of disunion with other men. They can love or they can hate.

- Thomas Merton

source: Thomas Merton (2007). “New Seeds of Contemplation”, p.72, New Directions Publishing

topic: Pain, Hate, Love Is, Broken Bone

To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Broken, Viruses, Cost, Susceptibility, Broken Bone

You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.

- Evel Knievel

topic: Hurt, Pain, Eye, Golf Ball, Pain Threshold

Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they expect bacon, meet with broken bones.

- Miguel de Cervantes

topic: Men, Broken, Bones, Broken Bone

Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Book, Reading, Gay, Broken Bone

All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Jobs, Book, Gay, Broken Bone

I don't despise you for what you allowed to happen to me. I despise you because when I was released, you refused to be found and I needed you more than anything in my life. Not to mend my broken bones, Arjuro. I needed my brother to mend my broken spirit.

- Melina Marchetta

topic: Brother, Broken, Spirit, Broken Spirit, Broken Bone

Wayside school is falling down, falling down, falling down, Wayside school is falling down my fair lady. Kids go splat as they hit the ground, hit the ground, hit the ground, Kids go splat as the hit the ground my fair lady . Broken bones and blood and gore, blood and gore, blood and gore, Broken bones and blood and gore my fair lady. We don't have to go to school no more, school no more, school no more, We don't have to go to school no more my fair lady.

- Louis Sachar

topic: Fall, Kids, School, My Fair Lady, Blood And Gore

All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent - which can be withdrawn at any time.

- Simon Winchester

topic: Home, Japan, Broken, Mantras, Calmer

The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.

- Rebecca Wells

source: Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”

topic: Pain, Love Is, Broken, Broken Bone

And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.

- Che Guevara

topic: Wall, Block, Heart, Broken Bone, Shuddering

Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.

- Kristin Hannah

source: Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Family Matters 4-Book Bundle: Angel Falls, Between Sisters, The Things We Do for Love, Magic Hour”, p.1279, Ballantine Books

topic: Girl, Hurt, Weather, Julia, Broken Bone