Quotes About A Bruised Heart

#1. 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

#2. Each day millions of children arrive in American classrooms in search of more than reading and math skills. They are looking for a light in the darkness of their lives, a Good Samaritan who will stop and bandage a bruised heart or ego.

Jim Trelease

#3. The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#4. But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man's best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.

Mark Twain

#5. And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.

Anne Rice

#6. My heart is too bruised and I want to keep the pain as a reminder. I don't want sunlight on it. I don't want it to heal. Because if it does, I might be tempted to use it again.

Nicola Yoon

#7. I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings!

Paul Laurence Dunbar

#8. Problems of the heart always bruised the soul.

Paulo Coelho

#9. Her heart was a little bruised up His had not yet learned to forget When they hugged, there were fragile parts." -MJ ABRAHAM

Claire Contreras

#10. you are ever
the only one

i want to give
all the peaches
in my heart to

the only one
by whom
i want them bruised.

Sanober Khan

#11. You can't go through life without your heart being bruised or broken. Otherwise, you're not truly, fully, a person.

JoBeth Williams

#12. I have perfected the art of the fake smile. Inside your heart may be bruised and black, but outwardly you look bright and happy.

Cindy Vine

#13. That man would have chipped away at your heart bit by bit until there was nothing left. It may have been bruised, but at least it's whole.

Christina Baker Kline

#14. Can you break your heart by accident, I wonder, like you can break your wrist? If so the accident season has me bruised and broken inside and out.

Moira Fowley-Doyle

#15. My heart's been on my sleeve all day, and it's pretty bruised up right now.

Nicola Yoon

#16. Something in me, in my bruised heart, wakes up, and even though I'm terrified, I don't push the feeling away.

Elizabeth Scott

#17. Bruised, beaten, shaken, weakened, tossed, thrown, lost, alone, heard, helped, healed, hope... it still works.

N'Zuri Za Austin

#18. The dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

Azar Nafisi

#19. Your eyes are hallow,
Your heart is bruised,
Your temple has been raided,
Your soul has been shattered,
Was he worth it?

Tanzy Sayadi

#20. Yes, we should pound our fists over persisting ills we see, but unless we also put our hands to work in providing workable solutions to those problems, what are we left with in the end but bruised fists and a bitter heart?

Jack Graham

#21. 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

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

John Bunyan

#23. This is what it felt like to have a broken heart. It felt less like a cracking down the middle and more like she had swallowed it whole and it sat bruised and bleeding in the pit of her stomach.

Wendy Wunder

#24. At the end of your life, go out with a bruised-up, worn out heart that gave too much and loved too strongly and felt too fiercely.

Heidi Priebe

#25. 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

#26. Combat comes before victory. If God has chosen special trials for you to endure, be assured He has kept a very special place in His heart just for you. A badly bruised soul is one who is chosen.

Lettie B. Cowman

#27. The human heart is a wild and bruised beast and often acts accordingly.

N.M. Kelby

#28. I will be girl with claws, heart bared and bruised and wanting. I am soul-shattering wolf-howl. I am lioness and hunt. I am more and enough. I am.

Venetta Octavia

#29. How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes?

Anne Rice

#30. A true artist removes his heart willingly, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back - bruised and aching - as he continues to strive for excellence due to the all-consuming obsession and love for his art.

H.G. Mewis

#31. My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive
I'll find love again.

Paulo Coelho

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

Marianne Williamson

#33. He has a heart so huge, it's kept pumping, kept going long past endurance - even though life has bruised it to a pulp.

Nalini Singh

#34. Scratch marks on the back, sore muscles and bruised hip bones won't get you into a woman's heart or mind ... Gentle whispers and holding her hand will.

Alice Walsh

#35. A true artist willingly removes their heart, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back
bruised and aching
to continue improving due to the all-consuming obsessive love for their art.

H.G. Mewis

#36. Don't worry, Evie; my heart isn't broken, only bruised.
-Sarah to Evie Johnson, p.345

Gillian Shields

#37. My heart! Ohhh my poor heart
Its bruised...its scarred and its full of pain.... But its still in love with you!

Kiran Joshi

#38. 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