Hurt Quotes

I told my mom the reason I started working out was because I wanted to break the necks of the people picking on me. I wanted to hurt them. I said I didn't want any teacher to put me down any more.

~ Herschel Walker

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

~ Max Lerner

When I was younger, my feet would hurt a lot, but you build up calluses and strength, and you don't feel as much pain there. But then again, it's a give and take. The older you get, you may feel pain in your back or your hips.

~ Misty Copeland

It's always difficult to play a scene of physical violence because you're always afraid that you don't know your own strength and might hurt someone.

~ Catherine Deneuve

My old man taught me a lot of stuff in his death that I don't even know if he would have been able to teach me had he been alive. And that was to never do stuff that can jeopardize the people you love and hurt them.

~ Freddie Prinze

Many queer and trans people live - and lived - in our prison and jails, in our homeless shelters, in run-down houses and apartment buildings, and on the corners of every major city. Marriage equality doesn't help them; and the potential loss of momentum for trans/queer rights after this win could well hurt them.

~ Chelsea Manning

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

~ Johnny Carson

It is a lie that our anger justifies our impulse to hurt or ignore our antagonists. We are to forgive to be forgiven. To wait for them to repent before we forgive and repent is to allow them to choose for us a delay which could cost us happiness here and hereafter.

~ Henry B. Eyring

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

~ Curtis Mayfield

Some people never learn, no matter how much their heads hurt in the morning.

~ Doug Ducey

The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration.

~ Lindsey Graham

I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.

~ Kiri Te Kanawa

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

~ Nikola Tesla

Consumers deserve the right to know what's in their food - and obviously, most people want that choice. It's hard to see how more knowledge about the products we eat every day can hurt us.

~ Michael Specter

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

~ Paul Tillich

Nothing to me is unexpected. No disappointment is unexpected - whether it's movies or people or relationships. I'm always ready for the punch directly between the eyes. So I get hurt, but I never get hurt. Happens all the time.

~ Brian Grazer

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner.

~ John Gray

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'

~ Joyce Meyer

The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.

~ Nina Simone

With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.

~ Britney Spears

There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.

~ Zendaya

Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.

~ Inga Muscio

Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score.

~ Suze Orman

I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.

~ Gail Sheehy

The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.

~ Mink Stole

Pain is pain, hurt is hurt, fear is fear, anger is anger, and it has no color.

~ Iyanla Vanzant

A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

~ Nadine Gordimer

No one plans to get sick or hurt - I certainly didn't - but most people will need medical care at some point in their lives.

~ Magic Johnson

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

~ Bob Marley

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

~ B. C. Forbes

The simple truth is that the implementation of Obamacare has hurt Americans and their health care more than it has helped.

~ Kevin Mccarthy

If we do nothing, as the Republicans suggest, we're going to see health care costs reach a point where small businesses can't afford it and families can't afford it. We're going to see people turned down from pre-existing conditions. We're going to find the Medicare doughnut hole - a gap in coverage that's going to hurt a lot of seniors.

~ Dick Durbin

My mom was a rescue veterinarian, and I grew up helping her nurse injured animals back to health. Any deer hit by a car, fox caught in a trap, whatever it was that got hurt, everyone brought them to my mom.

~ Johnny Iuzzini

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

~ Terry Brooks

I know, especially in my family, people's feelings get hurt over the tiniest things. I'm sure that's true in every family. But, for instance, one year, I came a little bit late to Thanksgiving, and I was supposed to bring a salad. And I just brought a bag of lettuce, and put it in a bowl. Five years later, I heard that my mom was incensed.

~ Jonathan Krisel

Conserving energy and thus saving money, reducing consumption of unnecessary products and packaging and shifting to a clean-energy economy would likely hurt the bottom line of polluting industries, but would undoubtedly have positive effects for most of us.

~ David Suzuki

If I just do everything the opposite of what my dad did, I think that will make things pretty easy. I can joke about it now because I'm past that stage where it used to hurt. By having a kid, it's gone. I could take all that negative energy that I had and put it in a positive way.

~ Derrick Rose

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

~ Vic Snyder

Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.

~ Denis Diderot

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

~ Brené Brown