Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. - Anne Bradstreet
A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Failure is a bruise. Not a tattoo. - Jon Sinclair
Already she knew that an idea could pain him like a bruise. He had grey eyes that showed every thought, and sometimes Charlotte worried that he might be hurt in some way that she would not be able to prevent. - Lauren Owen
Words cannot explain the bruise that festers into a river that runs deep filled with pain n sorrows which only the visible can cure - A.N. Knight
Bad news should always come after lunch.. first thing in the morning everything left a bruise. - Stephen King
I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself against the floor, the walls; I strain and sob and exhaust myself, and begin again, and exhaust myself again; but do I feel pain? Never. How can I feel pain? There is no place for it. - Harry Houdini
...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed... - John Geddes
I bruise easily and sometimes I can’t stop bleeding. - Jennifer Elisabeth
Sadness is a bruise on the skin of memory. - John Mark Green
I pulled the blanket around my shoulders. The sky was dark and vast and empty and not even a plane disturbed that sullen stillness, not even a star. The emptiness above was now mine within. It was a part of me, like a freckle, like a bruise. Like a middle name now one acknowledged. - Sarah Winman
With a strong spirit , you heal every bruise. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Once in a while i am struckall over again... by just how blue the sky appears .. on wind-played autumn mornings, blue enoughto bruise a heart. - Sanober Khan