Quotes About Hurt

Varian, please. I didn't mean what I said.' 'Of course you didn't,' he said snidely. 'No one ever does. People always speak without thought. But it's amazing how much damage thoughtless words can wreak, isn't it?

no matter how big his smile or how loud his laugh, you could hear the hurt underneath.

You took my body and my soul, but you wanted no part of my truth.

We want to hurt others but don't want to be hurt in return

We filled in the space but we were never chosen it did hurt but at least we helped them feel okay.We learnt to give love without any expectation it doesn't hurt that way.

Have you ever been betrayed? Have you ever been cut to the bone, stabbed in the back? Have you ever given someone your whole heart only to find out they used your heart to beat you with it? Have you ever laid down your life for someone? Have you ever served with reckless abandonment and in return got back a list of things that you failed to do?

And all that 'don't want to lose you' is utter bullshit. But just in case it's true, guess what? You did lose me. Just now.

That moment when she'd crouched behind the tree…it did something to her, something that made her grow up and toughen up. But one question throbbed in her brain for a long, long time. Why? Why would Liam say something so hateful? How could he—who had tamed a stray and starving cat—be so cruel to a girl who had only ever wanted to be his friend?

Love isn't safe. And whoever you love will hurt you. It's part of the human experience. No one is perfect...People make mistakes. The secret is to focus on what they do right and decide what quirks you can live with.

Sometimes the people closest to you betray you, and your home isn't a place you can be happy anymore.

I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.

We fought, we struggled, we hurt each other, so what? That's what love is, I think. It's all of it. Tears, anger, joy, struggle. Mostly, it's durable. It lasts.

If he loved you guys, he wouldn't hurt you." He made it sound so simple, as if it were a mathematical equation. But the connection between pain and love wasn't linear. It was a web.

Human gesture. Betrayed, betrayed.

The thing to hold on to in forgiving is that most often the people who are hurting us do not know what they are doing. In fact it is fair to say that none of us knows the impact of our actions in relationships, at least for a lot of the time. We are all unaware of our power to hurt and to heal.

Her emotions were raw, and she was on edge. Don't let things fester, Gus used to tell him and his sisters as kids. You need to cry, cry. You need to throw something, throw something. Just don't hurt anyone.

Memory is this, not the target dead on center but the hurt unwept.

We're kicking our way into adolescence from the minute we're born. Gradually you form your own ideas of how you should lead your life. It's strange, but when you get hurt - really hurt, I mean - you're willing to throw those ideas aside for another set that now make sense to you and calm your hurt.

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

Deep inside me something says don't feel anything, go back to sleep, when you feel, it hurts. When you love, people die." —Ruth Mendenberg

Haven't we all been hurt? Don't you think it takes courage to be happy, to feel, to love? Don't you think it costs us all? —Rivka

Evidenced in a capacity for denial so that you do not let yourself know what is really going on. You may be hurting yourself and others, but you will not acknowledge it. You may also be hurt, but you will repress that knowledge as well. Or, you believe what others say even when their perspective is directly counter to your own inner knowing.

In the previous chapter, we saw on a smaller scale how divorcing couples typically justify the hurt they inflict on each other. In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, because our victims deserved what they got, we hate them even more than we did before we harmed them, which in turn makes us inflict even more pain on them.

the world is full of evil wretches who seek nothing but their own self-gratification, and they don't give a damn whom they hurt in the process.