Quotes About Hurt

Forgiveness and acceptance, I thought as we found a spot near the largest tree in the lobby. Although I'd been kidding with Georgia, I was pretty sure those were the keys to relationships. Everything else was just ego and hurt feelings.

How could he look exactly the same as he always did? How could he so nonchalantly shatter all the things I'd believed and bear no outward sign of it? I didn't understand. It seemed to me that if someone hurt you, there should be some kind of boomerang effect. They should get hit with it, too, so it wasn't just you. So they didn't get off scot-free while you marinated in the pain.

Sometimes," he said after a second that lasted a million years, "things get broken. And they can't be fixed.

Sometimes you say things because they make you feel better. Sometimes you say that because it makes me feel better. "I love you" stays locked behind my teeth because there is no way saying it aloud will make you feel anything but worse. I don't say it, because when you love someone, really love them, you don't want anything you do to ever hurt them.

People are complicated, and they hurt each other. Effie Linton had known this for a long time, just as she knew that sometimes those wounds were inflicted deliberately, over and over, and not with fists or weapons. Sometimes, they did it with love.

I'm not in love. It's a crush which is why it hurts. Crushes crush. Otherwise they'd be called awesomes. "I have an awesome on him.

You can only really really hurt the ones that you really really love.

A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth.

As I snapped pictures, Nina gave me a dirty look. I just laughed, acting as though I didn't care. But inside I felt sort of differently. She used to be my good friend. It made me feel funny. Sad. Now she gave me dirty looks and did mean things to my house. To tell you the truth, it hurt. Later

If there is anything on this earth that I know better than anyone, it is that the ones who give you everything except what matters most are the ones with the deepest wounds.

People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it hard to forgive.

But they hadn't seen the expression on Adam's face that day. Forgiveness just wasn't an option, not in this case. Anyway, that really wasn't the point. She didn't want forgiveness. All Leonie ever wanted was for Adam to know that she'd never meant to hurt him, and if she managed that, it would be enough.

Because I can tell you happy endings do not occur when there are three people involved in a relationship story. Someone gets hurt. Always.

And to the casual observer it looks like I have moved on since I go around wearing my little happy mask all day. I smile and laugh and carry on like my heart's still in one piece, but beneath it all, I am dying.

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

I'll tell you this, though. It's not true, that saying about sticks and stones; it's words that break your bones.

one of worst enemies can be the same person you trust the most. for they know everything you don't want anyone else to know.

There, snug as a bug in a rug!" the old woman hollered. "I love dolphins, too!" Daphne exclaimed. "Not since I hurt my toes!" Mrs. Grimm shouted.

He was right: not about her playing him, or about her laughing at him, but certainly about her carelessness, about her casual disregard for how he would feel if he found out, and about the stunning lack of depth it exposed in her character.

The serpent hated the light and knew he had no power to hurt it, except through its creatures.

Ow, ow, ow, Billy hurt! Billy wanna go home!

What plagues people is not those who don't love them, but those who do.

It's simply the way things are when people come together out of hurt rather than happiness. When you try to use people as band-aids you merely reinfect the wound, and every moment you spend with them is like a speck of glass working itself deeper into your flesh.

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