Hurt Quotes

You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,Love like you'll never be hurt,Sing like there's nobody listening,And live like it's heaven on earth.

~ William W. Purkey

here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

~ Haruki Murakami

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?

~ Becca Fitzpatrick

I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.

~ Nina Lacour

You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

~ Melissa De La Cruz

To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.

~ Jocelyn Soriano

Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.

~ Becca Fitzpatrick

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

~ Jacqueline Carey

I think in the end, you would have stayed with me, out of obligation...or maybe comfort. Maybe I was safe to you, and you needed to feel that. I know how scared you get of the unknown. To you...I must be kind of a security blanket. Do you see now, how that doesn't work for me? I don't want to be there, simply because the idea of me being gone is too...scary. I want to be someone's everything. I want fire and passion, and love that's returned, equally. I want to be someone's heart... Even if it means breaking my own.

~ S.c. Stephens

But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be--one big scar of a love gone wrong.

~ Amanda Grace

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very poetry of his soul.Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.

~ Mario Puzo

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.

~ Jonathan Tropper

You can't hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I'm in love with you, Mara. I love you. No matter what you do.

~ Michelle Hodkin

I thought you were gone forever, I thought you’d walked away from everything, because I failed, because I destroyed the only thing that ever mattered to me. I waited for you to come, but you didn’t.

~ Alexandra Adornetto

I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.

~ Brandon Sanderson

Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.

~ Holly Black

As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.

~ Tabitha Suzuma

I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.

~ Becca Fitzpatrick

Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!

~ Jocelyn Soriano

A best friend is the only one that walks into your life when the world has walked out.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning.

~ Amanda Grace

The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.

~ Tammara Webber

And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything.

~ Christine Feehan

People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.

~ Dan Pearce

Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing. ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story

~ Hilary Duff

I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.“Love does not make you a fool.”“He didn’t love me back.”“That does not make you a fool, either.”“Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?”“Sometimes never.

~ Mitch Albom

You said you didn't want to get involved with me,that one of us would get hurt and how you couldn't bear it. Well that just isn't good enough..Look what happens to people just living their lives. They get hurt, it's not fair they get hurt but they do, all the time, no matter how careful they are. Somebody can just just come along and hurt them, for no stupid reason..

~ Julian Gough

The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didn’twork out the first time.

~ Amanda Howells

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

~ Bell Hooks

One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.

~ Marty Rubin

Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.

~ Bell Hooks

Dante laughed. No cold soup, no goat cheese. I'll make a mental note. And no Gottfried Curse.And for you it's no food at all. No sleep. And no tunnels.I'm low maintenance.Is that what you are? Because I've been trying to figure it out all semester.And what have you concluded?A mutant. A rare disease. A creature from the inferno. Dante.And what if you found out you were right? he asked. What if it meant that I could hurt you?I would say that I'm not scared. Everyone has the ability to hurt. It's the choice that matters.

~ Yvonne Woon

It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams.

~ Jocelyn Soriano

Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces.

~ C. Joybell C.

When you hold a grudge, you want someone else’s sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet.

~ Steve Maraboli

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

~ Isobelle Carmody

Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.

~ Julian Gough

I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that

~ Paula Hawkins