“A bruise to the ego hurts more than a break to the bone.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 60
“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.”
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“Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”
Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Context: Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
“We have a patient. We put him in a plaster cast.”
Papadopoulos (1968:171), cited in: Emmi Mikedakis " Manipulating Language- Metaphors in the Political Discourse of Georgios Papadopoulos (1967-1973) http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/jspui/bitstream/2328/25577/1/Emmi%20Mikedakis%20.pdf]." In: E. Close, M. Tsianikas and G. Frazis (Eds.) Greek Research in Australia- Proceedings of the [3rd] Annual Conference of Greek Studies, Flinders University, 23-24 June 2000. Flinders University Department of Languages – Modern Greek- Adelaide, p. 76-86<br>With the patient Papadopoulos was referring to Greece <br class="br">Context: We have a patient. We put him in a plaster cast. We try to see whether he could walk without the cast. We break open the first cast, and we eventually put the new one on, where it is needed. […] Let us pray that he will not need a plaster cast again. If he needs it, then we shall put it on him. And the only thing that I can promise you, is to invite you also to see the leg without a plaster cast!
Robert Fulghum book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
“Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 14
“The heart will break, but broken live on.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Variant: And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on.
Regina Spektor (1980) American singer-songwriter and pianist
"Fidelity"
Begin to Hope (2006)
Context: I never loved nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost in the sounds
I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind all this music
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart...
