Quotes About Hurt

We were like family - family members always hurt each other. And Ben was not my family, he lived for himself. A Western body when Ben and I slept together, he could forget all about the love that was lying next to him in the dark. I felt he didn't need much warmth from anybody. His own 37.2º C were sufficient for him. His spirit slept alone.

He left his office and made a beeline for the lounge and the coffee machine. He was reasonably certain that caffeine wasn't going to help in this instance, but as his dad had always told him, it couldn't hurt.

What good is freedom, Mrs. Helm, if you never do anything unusual or odd? That's what freedom means—doing whatever you need to do so long as nobody else is hurt by it. That's what you were talking about before, doing things that conflict with your sense of yourself in other rooms of your mind. You have to be able to do that or you're not really alive.

The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.

There's no excuse for excuses. Many of us are good at finding justification for behavior in men that isn't acceptable. We sometimes let them get away with things that hurt and upset us because we concentrate on what we like about HIM and the crumbs that give us gratification.

Love with someone else, an actual person, was another matter. People got hurt doing that. People cried and wrapped their arms around themselves and rocked with loss. Loving words got turned to fierce, sharp, whip-cracks of anger that lefft permanent marks. At the least, it disappointed you. At most, it damaged you.

We hurt each other, is the point. Hurt, annoy, embarrass, but move on. People, it just doesn't work that way. Your own feelings get so complicated that you forget the ways another human being can be vulnerable. You spend a lot of energy protecting yourself. All those layers and motivations and feelings. You get hurt, you stay hurt sometimes. The hurt affects your ability to go forward. And words. All the words between us. Words can be permanent. Certain ones are impossible to forgive.

The hurt affects your ability to go forward.

You've got an in-love feeling, but the relationship is damaging. When do you stop calling it love?

Her look was easy to read—she couldn't understand, we'd always been able to talk, she was hurt. Mothers can give all of that to you in one brief look.

Expectations hurt, be it sorry, be it thank you.

The voice of jealousy strikes from those who aim to hurt you, not those who love you!

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Sure, I can get a little bit jealous. The good part about jealousy is that it comes from passion. It's also the dangerous part and it's an ugly emotion that hurts.

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

I look away so that my eyes don't betray the hurt I feel

A small unkindness is a great offence.

Knowledge is pain that's why it hurts to know.

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

Everything becomes symbol and irony when you have been betrayed.

Betrayal is beautiful.

I have to admit that this notebook, with its wilderness of blank pages, seems almost more threat than gift—for what can I write here that it will not hurt to remember? You

iGen idea: the world is an inherently dangerous place because every social interaction carries the risk of being hurt. You never know what someone is going to say, and there's no way to protect yourself from it.

Plus l'offenseur m'est cher, plus je ressens l'injure.