Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.
The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.
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.
Somebody called me a 'bruised romantic' once, and I like that.
I was bruised, but I wasn’t broken.
She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive.
Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.
A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.
... how poorly do we love even those whom we love most! We are not only bruised by the limitations of their love for us, but also by the limitations of our own love for them.