Quotes About Hurt

Cheryl's growing awareness of her emotional difficulties was leading her to research multiple personality. As she had learned more about dissociation, she realised just how severe the abuse had been and how much she had been hurt. Her mind had dissociated to assure survival during the abuse by her father and it had been forced to dissociate by various researchers in government programmes.

It's a lie you've told yourself that has flattened down whatever hurts.

I never believed the boys were angry. I believed they were hurt and anger was the safest manifestation of their sorrow. It was the channel down which their impotent male rivers could rage.

E qualquer coisa que eu recorde agora, vai doer. A memória é uma vasta ferida.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off.

...see, when I talk of eyes, the stars come out! Whose eyes are they? If they are angels' eyes, why do they look down here and see good men hurt, and only wink and sparkle all the night?

Control sometimes hurts more than chaos.

The least unkindness from a friend is of greater smart than the hardest usage from an enemy.

A small wrong from a friend makes a greater wound in a man's heart than a great wrong from an enemy.

A stranger stabs you in the front. A friend stabs you in the back. A boyfriend stabs you in the heart. Best friends poke each other with straws.

If someone hurt you, abandoned you, betrayed you…it says nothing about your meaningfulness but everything about their character.

Don't pick the wrong target when you're angry, and don't hurt the ones you love or the ones who love you, because if you keep a good attitude and are prepared to do your work, you just might get an opportunity out of the blue.

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.

if he cares, he will flay; if he loves, he will slay you

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

Memories, you see, hurt. The good ones most of all.

Your mind is a storehouse for the painful memories and hidden resentments from your childhood—the things your parents did that deeply hurt you or made you feel that your physical or psychological survival was threatened

The fierce pride I had in my being was hurt by the slow disintegration of his own.

Laws of nature do not make exceptions for nice people. A bullet has no conscience; neither does a malignant tumor or an automobile gone out of control. That is why good people get sick and get hurt as much as anyone.

People's sense of self worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they've caused. The more solid one's sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.

NOT EVERYTHING IS FORGIVABLE Accepting an apology doesn't always mean reconciliation. The best apology in the world can't restore every connection. The words "I'm sorry" may be absurdly inadequate even if sincerely offered. Sometimes the foundation of trust on which a relationship was built cannot be repaired. We may never want to see the person who hurt us again. We can still accept the apology.

I envy her her tears. I wonder what they feel like. I wonder if they hurt.