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Quotes About Hurt

Free speech does indeed cause hurt—but there is nothing wrong in this. Knowledge advances through the destruction of bad ideas. Mockery
~ Nigel Warburton
Love those who hurt you the most, because they are probably the ones closest to you. They, too, are on a path, and just like you they are learning to walk before they can fly. Imagine if everybody you hurt in life turned their backs on you? You would be playing a hell of a lot of solitaire. Love them no matter what.
~ Nikki Sixx
AMMOS FYODOROVICH No, it's impossible to drive it out: he says his nanny hurt him as a child, and ever since then he's given off a whiff of vodka.
~ Nikolai Gogol
My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.
~ Unknown
The worst thing about that kind of prejudice... is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.
~ Nina Simone
All his life Rob J., struggling to salvage people from the afflictions that bring about physical and mental failures, was surprised at how much it hurt him when the patient was someone he loved.
~ Noah Gordon
I must have dislocated my pelvis!" -Rurouni
~ Nobuhiro Watsuki
I knew that if the subject were to arise, I would once again speak words that would cut my friend, little ceremonial slashes to his soul, not to cause a mortal wound, just to draw blood and to relieve myself of a nameless burden.
~ Unknown
At the bottom of every important conflict is a sense of love having been betrayed
~ Unknown
I thought I was hurt in my pride only, forgetting that, when you plunge your hand in freezing water, you feel a bangle of ice round your wrist before the whole hand goes numb.
~ Norman MacCaig
Sometimes people say I look grim or angry. Better to have them think that than know the truth. Better to have them think anything than know just how easy it is to hurt me.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Pleasure is rare, pain is plentiful, and, delusional or not, it hurts like hell.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Sharing is a weakness, a shameful secret. A person who knows what I am can hurt me, betray me, disable me with little effort.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Sometimes people say I look grim or angry. Better to have them think that than know the truth. Better to have them think anything than let them know just how easy it is to hurt me.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I look grim or angry. Better to have them think that than know the truth. Better to have them think anything than let them know just how easy it is to hurt me.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I get a lot of grief that doesn't belong to me, and that isn't real. But it hurts.
~ Octavia E. Butler
There's no hiding from this pain, there are no pills or injections for it. It must hurt, just as a river must flow and fire must burn. It spitefully reminds me that I consist of physical particles, which are slipping away by the second.
~ Olga Tokarczuk
There's a sort of rage a man feels when he's been deceived where he most trusted. It compares to no other anger.
~ Orson Scott Card
After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.
~ Osamu Dazai
A good friend will always stab you in the front.
~ Oscar Wilde
I'm so sorry. I love you. I never could have hurt you.
~ Pam Jenoff
It's as though for just a few minutes her flawless exterior cracked open a bit, and I could see the love and hurt inside.
~ Pam Jenoff
There is a flash in her eyes as she expects to be rejected yet again. How is it possible after all that she has been through that she can still let people hurt her?
~ Unknown
Forgotten about you?" He caught her chin, forced her to make eye contact, his gaze flashing anger, then slowly going gentle. "That would never happen. Never ." And Natalie got the sense that she'd hurt him.
~ Pamela Clare