Top 106 Bruise Quotes & Sayings

Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.

I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.

Hearts don't break, y'all. They bruise and get better.

The TV business is like the produce section of the market. Today everything is fresh and glistening and firm. And tomorrow, when they find a bruise on you, they toss you out.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

Soon the purple dark must bruise Lily and bleeding-heart and rose, And the little Cupid lose Eyes and ears and chin and nose

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

Joe Biden was spotted with a bruise on his face that was apparently caused by his dog. I guess they collided when they both went after the same tennis ball.

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

I've always known I bruise like a peach.

I'd knock people over and bruise their pride, but I never went out to hurt people. That is not acceptable, and I don't want to see it in my team.

You get mad at me, you kick the tire, I don't get a bruise, the tire doesn't care, and you're the only one hurting. How's that working for you, Kip?

I'm very sensitive. Emotionally, I bruise very easily. I'm a Leo, and this is very characteristic of our sign.

A sore ankle, a swollen knee or a bruise makes you feel alive.

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.

I lost my balance, making my body unstable and falling on top of my opponent. At that moment I hit my face against the player leaving a small bruise on my cheek and a strong pain in my teeth.

don't make me regret this" I said, breathless. " You haven't regretted me once". He kissed me, and I answered so hungrily I thought my lips would bruise. Patch&Nora ( p. 180)

A bone heals, a bruise fades, but art is forever

If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.

I remember my first Arsenal training session and Sol Campbell going straight through me. I had a bit of a bruise, but I got straight back up and carried on. I didn't want to show them that it hurt.

I bruise easily so be gentle when you handle me.

Failure is a bruise, not a tattoo.

Let her arm go and pray she has no bruise,” a familiar voice said in a low angry tone. I shuddered from relief at the sound of his voice. Trey released my arm and shrugged, grinning. “I just wanted an oyster, and she wouldn’t serve me.” I opened my mouth to protest when the warm fingers holding my arm softly squeezed me for reassurance. So, I stayed quiet. “Jason, please escort your friend to the door. I have no other reason to speak with him unless Sadie has a bruise or any lasting marks from his hands, and then he will see me again.

But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine.

I'm the most uncoordinated clumsy, klutzy person. I always had a bruise, I always tripped and fell.

A flower, if you bruise it under your feet, rewards you by giving you its perfume.

Men have feelings too, you know. You bruise the petals of my manflower.

Now it is autumn and the falling fruit and the long journey towards oblivion. The apples falling like great drops of dew to bruise themselves an exit from themselves.

For some reason, I bruise like a peach. I don't have enough vitamin C, I think.

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.

Ribs are a real tricky thing: you don't really know when they're going to heal, especially when mine weren't broken. I don't know what it was, exactly - either a deep bruise or cartilage.

Do you ever see a right-wing kid violently jumping lefty speakers? On campus, you either have silent appeasement or a bruise.

I have to admit, that's a remarkable bruise. You should be proud; it's quite a feat to get injured in the manner you did and in that...particular...place.

A pregnant woman is like a beautiful flowering tree, but take care when it comes time for the harvest that you do not shake or bruise the tree, for in doing so, you may harm both the tree and its fruit.

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

But because two can play at this game, I stand on tiptoe and kiss his cheek. Right on his bruise.

Because I'm no longer a pop star 24 hours a day, I'm no longer bogged down by the stupid stuff that used to cripple me. I don't bruise easily any more.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.

Hey, does my stupidity give you the right to bruise a tender heart?" "Yeah, yeah. I'm bruising a heart made of Play-Doh.

With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it.

If I take a bump or bruise along the way, that's nothing compared to the sacrifices that the women whose shoulders I stand upon made along the way.

Don't bruise the Foo!

I bruise like a grape.

Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.

The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

Arnica is great. I got kicked in the stomach by a horse once, and some adult slapped arnica all over it, and I had no bruise at all to show for my pain.

When I had my tryout, just from two days being in the ring, learning to bump, hit the ropes, and things like that, I came home, and my back was just one huge bruise.

Hey I bruise," Hale said. "Also, you are freakishly strong.

The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago.

And while some healing does happen, it isn't a healing of redemption or epiphany. It's more like the slow absorption of a bruise.

I hated to bat against Drysdale. After he hit you he'd come around, look at the bruise on your arm and say, 'Do you want me to sign it?'

I was born with a black eye. When they pulled me out with the forceps, they clamped them round my face, so I had a big bruise from that.

Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run.

I think I got a bruise from landing on you. I hear bacon is real good for healing a bruise.

The apple is perfect because of the bruise that runs through it.

It doesn't take a bruise or a broken bone for a child to be a victim of domestic violence. Kids who witness domestic violence are victims, too.

The hardest thing to accept as a parent is that you cannot apply the bandage before the bruise.

Life might hurt, might bruise, might forever scar, but it was for living.