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Quotes About Hurt

I do not remember many things, and for all those things I do not remember, I am grateful, because the things I do remember hurt me enough.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE WROTE THAT "if something is to stay in the memory it must be burned in: only that which never ceases to hurt stays in the memory.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Death would only hurt for a moment, which was not so bad when one considered how much, and for how long, life hurt.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
At last! Death would hurt only for a moment, which was not so bad when one considered how much, and for how long, life hurt.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Everybody hurts somebody somewhere.
~ Unknown
My tongue is a knife that is very sharp and you know, it can hurt you very easily.
~ Unknown
Can't run from hurt, Rose. You might miss some hurt, but you'll also miss all the joys of livin'.
~ Unknown
Even he who laughs best can be hurt by a jest.
~ Unknown
The lesson of my childhood was that if you anticipate misfortune, you make it hurt less. It's a fool's truth, but what truth isn
~ Unknown
Those to whom evil is done, do evil in return
~ W. H. Auden
A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
What hurts the soul My soul adores
~ W.B. Yeats
Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.
~ W.H. Auden
Some guys like to undermine a girl's self-esteem with little verbal jabs. Eventually it all adds up. One bee sting doesn't hurt a horse, but enough bee stings can kill a horse.
~ Oliver Gaspirtz
Lack of confidence in yourself, Can allow your enemies to hurt you easily.
~ Nikita Dudani
My father looked as if I'd just gutted him - but it was mingled with a twisted sense of satisfaction. It felt good to hurt his feelings.
~ Ernest Cline, Armada
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal.
~ Malcolm X
It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; the tear may be forgotten.... but the hurt stays in the heart.
~ Ella Higginson
All suffering is suffering. As C. S. Lewis said, there is no such thing as "the sum of the world's suffering," an abstraction of the philosophers. There are simply individual people who hurt. And who wonder why God permits it.
~ Philip Yancey
Where is the church when it hurts? If the church is doing its job—binding wounds, comforting the grieving, offering food to the hungry—I don't think people will wonder so much where God is when it hurts. They'll know where God is: in the presence of God's people on earth.
~ Philip Yancey
I have loved you for years," she cried after him. "I gave my womanhood to you. Tell me, in what way have I offended you? What have I ever done which was displeasing?
~ Philippa Gregory
Life experiences, mental illness, drugs, greed, environment, and poor role-modeling can all forge damaged people and can generate a darkness, an exploitiveness, in the way they approach life. Whatever their genesis, there are people in your life (and mine) who will hurt you if you let them.
~ Phillip C. McGraw
Words may sting, but silence is what breaks the heart.
~ Phyllis McGinley
If I were your enemy, I'd disguise myself and manipulate your perspectives so that you'd focus on the wrong culprit—your husband, your friend, your hurt, your finances, anything or anyone except me. Because when you zero in on the most convenient, obvious places to strike back against
~ Priscilla Shirer