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Bruised Quotes

Getting knocked, and getting back up.

These bruised quotes range from a literal stagecoach jolt to the sting of feeling unwelcome at a prestigious school. What ties them together is a kind of stubborn recovery, the sense that bruising is rarely the end of the story. See related lines in Pain quotes.

I go home at the end of the day and I rarely talk about what I did that day. So my wife's experience is just like that of anybody else whose husband goes away to a blue collar job and...

Quotes by Adam Savage

I've had problems with my throat over the years, playing with loud bands for years, and I've had bruised vocal chords and nodules.

Quotes by Aaron Neville

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new...

Quotes by Washington Irving

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.

Quotes by Walter Kirn

Emotion Quotes

I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge of a drum.

Quotes by Tommy Lee

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...

Quotes by Tom Odell

Our job... as we take forward this mantle of leadership as a new generation is to ensure that we not only bring our party back together, which has been bruised and battered this week, but that... we bring the parliament...

Quotes by Scott Morrison

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

Quotes by Sargent Shriver

I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.

Quotes by Richard Marx

Hurt Quotes

I had a snowboarding accident. I fell off a horse. I've had a concussion, a fractured rib... I walk into walls. I'm always bruised up.

Quotes by Mila Kunis

If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

Quotes by Mads Mikkelsen

When I speak to a victim or their family, people who were left bruised and battered by someone, and can give them some small relief, I know I'm winning in some small way, and I'm part of a process that...

Quotes by Loretta Lynch

The Smurfs - and they're this way in Peyo's comics as well - do have a rubbery indestructibility about them. They can get bruised & battered. But they then just sort of bounce back very quickly, like those classic cartoon...

Quotes by Kelly Asbury

During National Playground Safety Week, I'll celebrate common-sense safety. I'll also celebrate skinned knees and bruised elbows. I'll celebrate so-called 'dangerous' playgrounds - playgrounds with see-saws, zip lines and towering slides.

Quotes by Darell Hammond

Pain Quotes

When Cody won the Ring of Honor title, I rushed out of my seats, tripped on the steps, and bruised my leg in front of a couple fans. I just didn't want to miss a moment with him. That is...

Quotes by Brandi Rhodes

When I first started to learn to run the ropes, that was really painful for me: it's just cable wire wrapped in tape. It bruised my ribs so bad, it hurt to be hugged; it hurt to lay down.

Quotes by Bayley

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

Quotes by Audre Lorde

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these bruised quotes talk about?
Getting knocked down and recovering - a rough stagecoach ride, feeling out of place at a prestigious school, a cartoon character's rubbery resilience, and everyday physical injuries from drumming.
Why would someone search for quotes about feeling bruised emotionally?
One entry describes coming away from an unwelcoming university environment feeling bruised, which speaks to the emotional sense of the word as much as the physical one.
Is there a lighter, more humorous quote about being bruised?
Yes, one compares bruising to the Smurfs' rubbery indestructibility, noting they take a battering but bounce back quickly, which offers a more playful contrast to the heavier entries.
Does this page include anything about physical injury from work or hobbies?
One quote does, describing recurring cuts and bruises on the hands from an edge of a cymbal or drum, a very literal, hands-on kind of bruising.
Any other page you'd suggest?
Try Pain quotes for more on discomfort and endurance.

Even a drummer's bloody knuckles and a cartoon character's rubbery resilience find a place here, each showing bruising as something you move through rather than around. Continue with Recovery quotes.