Hurt Quotes

And after that, you don't feel the same toward the other person any longer.

~ George Orwell

Because—truth?—on the scale of significance, that stuff doesn’t even register. What has me pushed past the boiling point...what has me really, really upset is learning the woman I thought was so incredibly strong I married her on the spot...is actually a quitter who runs from challenge, a coward too afraid to even try, a liar who makes promises she won’t keep and a cynic too bitter to believe what’s right in front of her face. Is that real enough for you?

~ Mira Lyn Kelly

Could he be prosecuted for murder? Cause of death: broken heart. Murder weapon: words laced with bullshit.

~ Julie Prestsater

We hurt so much because we have lost a part of ourselves. If we have loved much, we must have given much also, and when everything's over, we feel as though we have lost everything.

~ Jocelyn Soriano

We cannot love a person with an all accepting, transcending and encompassing love without being hurt somewhat, without being disappointed, without being failed of our expectations. We cannot love without being broken, yet we cannot continue in love without being stronger than our brokenness.

~ Jocelyn Soriano

The very best and the very worst of life will come from [their] ability to love strangers.

~ Simon Van Booy

When they know what makes you cry, they know what hurts you most. Don't give your enemies that. Solin, character in The Guardian by Sherrilyn Kenyon

~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

The only way to understand the reason behind someone's hurtful behaviour is -Understanding that every action is driven by an underlying emotion. Emotions especially the negative one's are our reactions to the conflict between our beliefs and reality.The influence of these negative emotions, causes us to act in ways that hurt others.So if someone hurts you, it actually indicatesthat they have an unsatisfied need or a woundthat needs attention.

~ Wordions

The journey of finding you can be scary all in itself. The journey to finding the real you start behind the walls of yesterday. Reaching down through the years of hurt can remind you of why you built the wall. However, the journey of finding your voice begins by taking the bricks down one by one until you find the strength to push the wall down. Then you can start over building an improved wall with a door for someone to enter.

~ Dallas Palmer

I didn’t say anything, I could find no words that would express the swirled chaos of emotions inside me. So I just watched him go right out the door.

~ J.m. Richards

All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.

~ Margaret Mitchell

When you write about justice, you better forget who is going to be hurt.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Just because she doesn't talk about it, doesn't mean she isn't feeling it. She hurts, but she won't wear it on her sleeve. She will never let an illness, a diagnosis, or a prediction, define her. She doesn't want sympathy, because that type of attention is not her goal. She'd rather you see the woman who smiles in the face of adversity, than be the one who begs you to see her frown.

~ Alfa H

Sometimes the idea of living as a hermit appeals to all of us. No demands, no needs, no pain, no disappointments. But that is because we have been hurt, are worn out.

~ John Eldredge

But that's life, I suppose. You're born good, and over time it gets drilled out of you. Doesn't matter how much good you do in the world, you'll always end up hurt by others, and eventually it all becomes too much to take.

~ Alex Jackson

where love n happiness makes us blind, pain n hurt helps to see truth. So, pain in good.

~ Deepakgogna

Certainly we struggle as victims of other people’s unkindness. We have been sinned against. But we cannot excuse our sinful responses to others on the grounds of their mistreatment of us. We are responsible for what we do. We are both strugglers and sinners, victims and agents, people who hurt and people who harm.

~ Larry Crabb

Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less

~ J.a. Redmerski

later that night i held an atlas in my lap ran my fingers across the whole world and whispered where does it hurt?it answered everywhere everywhere everywhere.

~ Warsan Shire

But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them.

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

~ Jennifer E. Smith

So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

~ Haruki Murakami

Speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.

~ Janet Fitch

I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.

~ Mary Balogh

I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

~ Jeanette Winterson

Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.

~ Cheryl Strayed

Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money. If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.

~ Nick Hornby

Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?

~ Patrick Ness

Jack: ..You were the on­ly one I saw when I closed my eyesLexi: Then why wasn't I enough when they were open?

~ K.a. Linde

There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

Sometimes even stuff you expect to happen can still hurt

~ Jennifer Brown

Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)

~ Louisa May Alcott

why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.

~ Marian Keyes

I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.

~ Christina Aguilera

People who stop laughing are always the ones who get hurt.

~ Josh Sundquist

Unconditional love is like a contry of two with no laws and no government. Which is all fine if everyone is peaceful and law abiding. In the wrong hands, though, you got looting and crime sprees, and let me tell you, the people who demand unconditional love are usually the ones who will rob and pillage and then blame you because you left your door unlocked.

~ Deb Caletti

That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.

~ Amy Tan

That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt.

~ Lauren Oliver

The door closed behind her (Phoebe), and the two men regarded each other for a moment. Viktor spoke first. I must have your promise, Coach, that you won't hurt her. Dan: I won't. Viktor: You spoke a little too quickly for my taste. I don't quite believe you. Dan: I'm a man of my word, and I promise I won't hurt her. He flexed his hands. When I murder her, I'll do it real quick so she won't feel a thing. Viktor sighed. That's exactly what I was afraid of.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips