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Quotes About Hurt

S]o if the device of the person in the ambulance detected the device of the person he loved the most, or the person who loved him the most, and the person in the ambulance was really badly hurt, and might even die, the ambulance could flash GOODBYE! I LOVE YOU! GOODBYE! I LOVE YOU!
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
And there are no cures for the hurt that hurts most. There is only the medicine of believing each other's pain, and being present for it.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
~ Jonathan Swift
Still, if it comes to the point where the blue acrylic dappled with cirrus suggests the Lord, say Give me strength to sustain the hurt, and learn it by heart like a decent lyric.
~ Joseph Brodsky
Physical wounds don't matter when I receive them. But if I had to inflict them on someone else, that would wound me in a way I couldn't bear
~ Ágota Kristóf
People like Uncle Hashim can say things like that, even if they are true. They can store them for years, hold on to them and let them harden and solidify, until the moment arrives when they can be delivered as they had been intended to, to crush a bone or bruise the heart.
~ Abdulrazak Gurnah
I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.
~ Abraham Verghese
I'm ashamed of our human capacity to hurt and maim one another, to desecrate the body. Yet it allows me to see the cabalistic harmony of heart peeking out behind lung, of liver and spleen consulting each other under the dome of the diaphragm -- these things leave me speechless.
~ Abraham Verghese
The chaos and hurt in God's world are unfathomable mysteries, yet the Bible shows her that there is order beneath. As her father would say, "Faith is to know the pattern is there, even though none is visible.
~ Abraham Verghese
Forgive me," she says now. "For what?" "For everything. Sometimes we can wound each other in ways we don't intend.
~ Abraham Verghese
Jun Do had dealt with this his whole life, the ways it was impossible for people from normal families to conceive of a man in so much hurt that he couldn't acknowledge his own son, that there was nothing worse than a mother leaving her children, though it happened all the time, that "take" was a word people used for those who had so little to give as to be immeasurable.
~ Adam Johnson
That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.
~ Adam Savage
I look away so that my eyes don't betray the hurt I feel
~ Adele Parks
Don't trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.
~ Adeline Yen Mah
The cruelest lies are often told in silence.
~ Adlai Stevenson
I knew only what pleased my mother; I didn't have a moral compass. It would be years before I understood the forces that shaped who she was and who I became and recognized the hurt that we both caused.
~ Adrienne Brodeur
I never asked you to explain that act of violence what dazed me was our ignorance of our will to hurt each other.
~ Adrienne Rich
Using kids as pawns in a divorce is awful.
~ Brooke Hogan
It really hurt me when there was this perception that I didn't want to play for Scotland. I was fuming, absolutely gutted.
~ Robert Snodgrass
Thus it is that most people seem to suffer more from hard words than hard deeds, and are more excited by insult than by actual hurt. What we do to our enemies in war is done of necessity, but the evil we say of them seems to spring from an excess of spite.
~ Plutarch
False friends are worse than open enemies
~ Proverb
Honey in his mouth, knives in his heart.
~ Proverb
The tongue that belongs to a fake friend is sharper than a knife.
~ Proverb
Pride only hurts, it never helps.
~ Quentin Tarantino