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Quotes About Hurt

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
~ Haruki Murakami
In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.
~ Haruki Murakami
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
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
The worst pain in the world goes beyond the physical. Even further beyond any other emotional pain one can feel. It is the betrayal of a friend.
~ Heather Brewer
Wait - Miss Bramble-" "Don't call me that!" said Azalea. Something, perhaps hurt, flickered through Mr. Bradford's soft eyes. "Princess Bramble," he said.
~ Heather Dixon
Off and on for many years, I tried to write a book about my childhood. I'd bring chapters to workshop, to writing group, and I always got the same comments: How could you live this way? How could you survive this? It's too raw. You don't speak to these people, do you? I was deeply hurt by these reactions, and also confused. This was my mother. I loved her. This was my family. My life. How could it be too raw?
~ Heather Sellers
Who cuts is easily wounded. The readier you are to offend the sooner you are offended.
~ lavater johann kaspar iii
Betrayal can only happen if you love.
~ le carre john ii
Do you know what love is? I'll tell you: it is whatever you can still betray.
~ le carre john ii
Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.
~ Leah Hager Cohen
The rape was horrible, but being ignored by you was like being violated again," Albert said, his anger building once more. "It tore her apart.
~ Lee Goldberg
Women are so sensitive, darling. They have to be. They have to be aware what a man wants, what their children want. They have antennae all over them, whiskers of feeling. And unfortunately that has a down side. It means they get hurt.
~ lee tanith iii
But if they were afraid of lemon meringue pie, this would be an irrational fear, because lemon meringue pie is delicious and has never hurt a soul.
~ Lemony Snicket
I looked up at the painting that hung above my bed as usual, a little girl holding a dog with a bandaged paw. Who would paint such a thing, I wondered. First he painted the little girl and nobody cared, so he added a dog. Still nobody cared, so he added a bandage on the dog's paw, and now it's hanging in the Far East Suite watching me try to sleep. How long has that dog been hurt? How long has the girl been watching?
~ Lemony Snicket
The good news is, the stock market is closed and it can't hurt us again until tomorrow.
~ leno jay iii
There is a saying, "A patsh fargeyt, a vort bashteyt"—"A slap passes, but a word [that is, an insult] remains.
~ Leo Rosten
There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence.
~ James Purdy
This was all such a waste of time, and after that last fight with what was apparently supposed to be a troll, his arm really hurt.
~ james riley
Do you think I'm a bad person?" "It doesn't sound like you have enough time in your life to be a bad person." "Then why is God doing this to me?" "God isn't doing this to you. There's a lot of evil out there. When it touches people, they get hurt. No one's immune, not even good people like you.
~ James Swain
What divine being had permitted this? This love? This hurt? This separation? Allah? Buddha? God?
~ Jameson Currier
Hard words will break no bones: But more than bones are broken By the inescapable stones Of fond words left unspoken.
~ Jan Struther
Deceived in Freindship and Betrayed in Love
~ Jane Austen
She will be more hurt by it, for Robert always was her favourite. —She will be more hurt by it, and on the same principle will forgive him much sooner.
~ Jane Austen