Top 100 Quotes About Bruised
#1. Also, the wizard's response to having a skeletal deer leap in front of him and a bruised and whimpering elf fall off its back was to say, "Oh." That
T. Kingfisher
#2. He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.
J.C. Ryle
#3. A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.
Laini Taylor
#4. The meat was bruised, bleeding, and imprisoned in a tight wrapping. And, though I had a six-month respite from thinking about it, so was I.
Susanna Kaysen
#5. 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
#6. When we lay together, she showed me her soul, and I showed her mine, and they were the same. As you can imagine, mine was battered and bruised, tarnished like ancient metal. She scrubbed it clean. I cannot deny my own soul any more than I can deny she held it in her hands for a time.
Carol Oates
#7. Throughout it all, you are still, always, you: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable.
Leila Sales
#8. As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds and bodies, their matted hair and runny noses. Here my life as a painter began in earnest.
Walter Keane
#9. I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
Walter Kirn
#10. The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.
Kate Chopin
#11. Holding her gaze, he closed the final distance between them and went down to his knees, that beautiful bruised face looking up at her.
Nalini Singh
#12. She put up an invincible show, but underneath I knew her to be bruised and vulnerable.
Sue Monk Kidd
#13. The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#14. I am clouded and bruised with the print of minds and faces and things so subtle that they have smell, colour, texture, substance, but no name.
Virginia Woolf
#15. She was not the audience to which he played, but she was the profound intelligence that heard him. She drew him in with her great bruised eyes, and his music she drank, and it was wine to her thirst.
Ellis Peters
#16. I have found that the platonic affection
in friendships and familial
love for children can be relied upon
with certainty to lift the bruised soul
and repair the wounded spirit
Maya Angelou
#17. She feels bruised by her reading and by life too. She wonders, does she always fight her books before yielding to them?
Austin Wright
#18. The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.
John Bunyan
#19. What see you in the horizon's bruised smear
That cannot be blotted out
By your raised hand?
Steven Erikson
#20. And that's when I realised that a mans' ego was like fruit; easily bruised ...
Lauren Kate
#21. Bruised knees cramp my style.
They scream cheap whore,
when I am an expensive one.
Asa Akira
#22. His face was badly bruised and swollen and altogether painful looking, but it really brought out his eyes.
Nicole Castle
#23. He was always so happy when he returned that I wondered why he did it, why he tortured himself by watching a bruised world he couldn't heal.
Chris Struyk-Bonn
#24. 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
#25. A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory. Matthew 12:20
Thomas Watson
#26. I want to be bruised by God.
I want to be strung up in a strong light and singled out.
I want to be stretched, like music wrung from a dropped seed.
I want to be entered and picked clean.
Charles Wright
#27. Bruised but not broken, Dr Robinet told me before I left. I though the was talking about my spirit, but he'd been referring to my ribs.
Gayle Forman
#28. Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.
Neal A. Maxwell
#29. Some time just after one and somewhere in between awake and asleep, Sophie moved beneath him again. Tangled limbs. Entwined fingers. Damp cheeks. Bruised hearts.
Kitty French
#30. Broken locks and bruised knees and borrowed lipgloss and rain on the streets
Rebecca Godfrey
#31. She turned; she bruised under her heel the scaly head of this dark suspicion-as terrifying to her as his guilt was to him. 'O Absalom, my Absalom! Come, come, we will not entertain such a thought. God himself would not urge it upon a mother.
Theodore Dreiser
#32. You bruised my ego, you see, and there's just not enough money in the world to soothe my ego when it gets bruised
Jennifer Estep
#33. She was his. Good or bad, twisted or wrong, she was his, and he closed the last few steps with a hungry groan, buried his bruised hands in her hair, and kissed her.
Kit Rocha
#34. A bruised and wounded soul can forgive and try to forget the pain but the hardest part is to trust again. It takes more time to trust again.
Euginia Herlihy
#35. As he left me in bed, bruised and sore, he had missed the big picture. His promise came too late. He had already hurt me.
Travis Luedke
#36. If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
Mads Mikkelsen
#37. A bruised apple is not all bad. It still has tremendous potential.
Seth Adam Smith
#38. 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
#39. If you take a pit bull approach with another pit bull, you generally end up with a messy scene and lots of bruised feelings and resentment. Luckily, there's another way without all the mess. It's just four simple steps: 1.
Chris Voss
#40. While the financial crisis destroyed careers and reputations, and left many more bruised and battered, it also left the survivors with a genuine sense of invulnerability at having made it back from the brink. Still missing in the current environment is a genuine sense of humility.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
#41. Looking backwards
Has never been my endeavor
Lost passions ... bruised emotions
Never distressed me.
Balroop Singh
#42. Bloody noses had made them friends, but giving sound to the bruised places in their hearts made them brothers.
Gloria Naylor
#43. Better he should be bruised from head to foot by me who love him than that he should come to harm through ignorance,
Rudyard Kipling
#44. Self-confidence is not the temper which God uses for His instruments. He works with 'bruised reeds,' and breathes His strength into them. It is when a man says 'I can do nothing,' that he is fit for God to employ. 'When I am weak, then I am strong.' Moses
Alexander MacLaren
#45. 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
#46. Riley knelt down, clasping the fur at the back of her neck. "You're fucking bruised all down your back. Why the hell didn't you tell me it hurt?"
Because it didn't at the time, genius.
Nalini Singh
#47. 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
#48. I cannot help but find it telling that she successfully felled two grown men in a single day." Mater's eyes slid to Corbin's bruised face. "If I had to guess, I would say she has experience defending herself physically against men. Not a very comforting thought.
Sarah M. Eden
#49. Sugar ain't spoiled, she just a little bruised, is all. Bruises can heal and fade away to nothing.
Bernice L. McFadden
#51. He was the color of a hydrangea before it blooms, wilting like one too, every inch of him sunken and bruised.
Laekan Zea Kemp
#52. Labour is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.
W.B.Yeats
#53. 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
#54. The human heart is a wild and bruised beast and often acts accordingly.
N.M. Kelby
#55. You've gotta believe that the split second that changed your life - the brief moment that took your leg and bruised your melon - can't be the defining moment of your life. It was just an instant, a flash. Just one second out of millions of seconds. It doesn't get to own you.
Jennifer Handford
#56. There seemed to be some...irregularity in your coming here," the priest said delicately. Thus did he characterize her arrival, bruised and battered, in the arms of her betrothed rather than under the decorous escort of her family.
Josie Litton
#57. Once when I felt a little bruised by censorship I sent through Herodotus's account of the battle of Salamis fought between the Greeks and Persians in 480 B.C., and since there were place names involved, albeit classical ones, the Navy censors killed the whole story.
John Steinbeck
#58. Will not break a bruised reed, or quench a smoldering wick (Isa. 423; Matt. 12:20).
Richard J. Foster
#59. Frank took my hand and pressed it to his lips. Considering that my knuckles were bruised from punching him in the face, it should've come with the romantic gesture of the year award. Or a restraining order.
Nicole Castle
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Snow is bruised lilac in half-lite: such pure solace. You speak like an aesthete sometimes, Sonmi. Perhaps those deprived of beauty perceive it most instinctively. So
David Mitchell
#63. Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming ... I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.
Shannon Hale
#64. A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
Anonymous
#65. Wasteland is land which is worthless
for cultivation. Like a child who has been emotionally
bruised in a way that can never heal.
Pankaj Suneja
#66. All the bruised lives, searching hearts ... Everyone wants a love story but few will risk what it takes to live one.
Donna Lynn Hope
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. One father said that what helped him become more sensitive to his son's emotional needs was when he began to equate the boy's bruised, unhappy feelings with physical bruises.
Adele Faber
#70. 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
#71. Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.
Marianne Williamson
#72. Nixon to Clinton: When seeking advice from people who are more experienced than you, tell them what you plan to do first, and then ask for their reaction. Don't ask for their advice, and then ignore it. That way you save on bruised feelings.
Nancy Gibbs
#73. No, not my spirit, just my ego, and my arms, and my chest, and my back, but luckily they are just bruised." Squanto responded, "I fear you may not be so lucky.
Stacy Buck
#74. I am tired of seeing people battered and bruised and bloody, injured and jumped on, along the Jericho Roads of life.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#75. With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the extremity of the heat had so weakened us, as were cause sufficient to have made us as miserable in our native country or any other place in the world
John Smith
#76. That's when she'd learned that male egos and fruit had a lot in common: Both bruised easily.
Jana Oliver
#77. There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place.
Washington Irving
#78. I held hope in my hands every day. I treated hope like it was a precious stone. I clutched it so tightly that I sometimes felt bruised by it.
Pamela Sparkman
#79. it was the kind of moon
that I would want to
send back to my ancestors
and gift to my descendants
so they know that I too,
have been bruised...by beauty.
Sanober Khan
#80. When she was this wild, he was a monster for her. He bruised her, took her blows, and fought to give her the pleasure she made him earn.
Debra Anastasia
#81. I love you like the woman I am now. Not the girl I was. I'm battered and bruised and I'm tougher, but I'm still here. I'm scared to death, but I'm more frightened of a life without you.
Amy Andrews
#82. You are bruised.'
'Am I? I hadn't noticed.'
'Lucrezia says you killed the bastard.'
... Cesare's hands were shaking. Hard, sun-darkened hands made to hold a sword or lance unflinchingly, but they trembled against my pale skin.
Sara Poole
#83. I died on a bitter cold night. Beneath a black sky and a bruised winter moon, I tried to fly, hoping my arms might act as wings.
Jennifer Archer
#84. 20 a bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not quench, until he brings justice to victory; 21 v and in his name the Gentiles will hope.
Anonymous
#85. 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
#86. A three-quarter moon, glowering bone, with a hint of something bruised, battered, scarred. The moon has endured more than anybody can know.
Joyce Carol Oates
#87. It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany's bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered everything. It was like none of it had ever happened.
Kimberly Novosel
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. By the time she'd run to the edge of the crater, Bazine's mentor and once-friend was climbing over the edge, bruised and scratched up but mostly unharmed.
Delilah S. Dawson
#91. Lots of people leave Pennsylvania limping and bruised. The state also has what are reputed to be the meanest rattlesnakes anywhere along the trail,
Bill Bryson
#92. 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
#93. ...he could feel hot tears coming to his eyes as the image of that night, outside the house as the November wind blew black leaves up off the ground and the sky turned colors like bruised flesh.
David Nickle
#94. Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?
Vin Scully
#95. I can't claim that I came out of it the winner. But I felt a lot like a kid who has finally found the guts to stand up to the schoolyard bully and tell him to take his best shot: bruised and bloody and thinking maybe that it hadn't been such a hot idea, but - what do you know? - still standing.
Aaron Elkins
#96. She held his face in her hands and she kissed his jaw and his poor bruised temple, and his lips, and told herself that whatever happened, she would always remember how this felt.
Jojo Moyes
#97. Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul
Lewis Carroll
#98. The song which thrills to heaven, and seeks to emulate seraphic strains, hath human discords in it. The prayer which moves the arm of God is still a bruised and battered prayer
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#99. 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
#100. Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.
Colum McCann
