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Quotes About Hurt

Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.
~ Malorie Blackman
A word Dad had used. But it was a word that had hurt my best friend. A word that was now hurting me so very, very much. I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this.
~ Malorie Blackman
Hurt is anger. We feel angry because we believe that someone did not give us our due. We don't feel hurt or slighted because we are not invited to a party but because we expected to be invited; we took it for granted. "It is my due; did I not invite her to my party?
~ Unknown
je suis une ombre dans ta vie,tu es bien plus que ça dans la mienne et ça me fait du mal
~ Marc Levy
Some might say the most hurt you can cause is through cowardice.
~ Marc Levy
Keira avait raison, le plus petit détail réveille la douleur
~ Marc Levy
Why do we always have to 'fall' in love?" "Because when it hurts, you have to pick yourself back up again." "And when it doesn't hurt?" "Then you stop falling, and you just love.
~ Marc Levy
I loved her [Gilberte]; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to hurt her, to force her to keep some memory of me. I thought her so beautiful that I should have liked to be able to retrace my steps so as to shake my fist at her and shout, "I think you're hideous, grotesque; how I loathe you!"_
~ Marcel Proust
You think we could get them around by the pool?" Taryn asked. "Well, we could, but why would we?" "Because it looks rich. The point is, if this hurts me, I'll be hurt with the more conservative voters out here," Taryn said. "The richer ones. I want to make the point, 'I'm one of you.' I've got the liberals no matter what.
~ John Sandford
Do you take pride in your hurt?' Samuel asked. 'Does it make you seem large and tragic? . . . Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience . . . there's all that fallow land, and here beside me is all that fallow man. It seems a waste. And I have a bad feeling about waste because I could never afford it. Is it a good feeling to let your life lie fallow?
~ John Steinbeck
Nobody changes. Nobody gets hurt.
~ John Steinbeck
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie
~ John Steinbeck
Do you take pride in your hurt?" Samuel asked. "Does it make you seem large and tragic?" "I don't know." "Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.
~ John Steinbeck
They's a time of change, an' when that comes, dyin' is a piece of all dyin', and bearin' is a piece of all bearin', an' bearin' an' dyin' is two pieces of the same thing. An' then things ain't so lonely anymore. An' then a hurt don't hurt so bad.
~ John Steinbeck
A man so hurt and so perplexed may turn in anger, even on people he loves.
~ John Steinbeck
And when a man's feelings are hurt he wants to strike at something, and Abel was in the way of his anger.
~ John Steinbeck
They knew that a man so hurt and so perplexed may turn in anger, even on people he loves. They left the men alone to figure and to wonder in the dust. After
~ John Steinbeck
People have so often been hurt and trapped and tortured by ideas and contraptions which they did not understand, that they have come to believe all things passing their understanding are vicious and evil—things to be stamped out and destroyed by the first comer. They only protect themselves, thus, against the ghastly hurts that can come to them from little things grown up.
~ John Steinbeck
The emotion of nonviolence was building in him until it became a prejudice like any other thought-stultifying prejudice. To inflict any hurt on anything for any purpose became inimical to him. He became obsessed with this emotion, for such it surely was, until it blotted out any possible thinking in its area. But never was there any hint of cowardice in Adam's army record. Indeed he was commended three times and then decorated for bravery.
~ John Steinbeck
You know why you did it. You were mad at him, and you were mad at him because your father hurt your feelings. That's not difficult. You were just mean.
~ John Steinbeck
And when a man's feelings are hurt he wants to strike at something
~ John Steinbeck
All love is betrayal, in that it flatters life. The loveless man is best armed.
~ John Updike
How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.
~ John Updike
Yeah, but will it hurt?"' I asked. "This is science, Zach," Randy said, reassuringly, as he tilted my head back and lowered the lens to my eye. "Of course it will hurt.
~ John Zakour