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Quotes About Hurt

Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.
~ Aesop
We should add that it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk: it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts of love.
~ Alain de Botton
Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate response is hence never cynicism nor aggression but, at the rare moments one can manage it, always love.
~ Alain de Botton
As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
~ Alain de Botton
When we suspect that we are appropriate targets for hurt, it does not take much for us to believe that someone or something is out to hurt us
~ Alain de Botton
We should add: it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk; it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts of love.
~ Alain de Botton
There is no such thing as a hurt that is too small to matter when emotional closeness is at stake.
~ Alain de Botton
And what excuse was there for this? Nothing but the old line that parents and politicians will use before taking out their scalpels: I care about you, therefore I will upset you, I have honoured you with a vision of how you should be, therefore I will hurt you.
~ Alain de Botton
We should add: it is a privilege to be the recipient of a sulk; it means the other person respects and trusts us enough to think we should understand their unspoken hurt. It is one of the odder gifts of love. Eventually
~ Alain de Botton
PuÈ›ini oameni sunt pur È™i simplu nesuferiÈ›i; cei care r?nesc sunt la rândul lor r?niÈ›i. În aceste condiÈ›ii, reacÈ›ia cuvenit? nu e niciodat? cinismul sau agresiunea, ci, în rarele momente când suntem în stare de ea, iubirea.
~ Alain de Botton
It's the permanent female problem, whether or not to trust a man when he's seducing. You may like the man without trusting him, but one thing you want to avoid is getting hurt again.
~ Alain de Botton
A single idea recurs throughout his work: that we best endure those frustrations which we have prepared ourselves for and understand and are hurt most by those we least expected and cannot fathom. Philosophy must reconcile us to the true dimensions of reality, and so spare us, if not frustration itself, then at least its panoply of pernicious accompanying emotions.
~ Alain de Botton
It hurts," she said.
~ Derek Landy
You should live in the moment' is as unhelpful an imperative as 'You should believe in yourself and secure the future you want'. The only 'should' we need ever take on board is that we 'should' get on with our lives without hurting other people.
~ Derren Brown
The envious ones struck me," I say "but I was not hurt; they beat me with their hate, but I did not feel it, and I will say to my soul, "Soul, the jealousy and hate they have poured onto you is forever meaningless when your strength comes from God.
~ Deshawn Yeldell
Tak ada yang lebih menyakitkan dari kepedihan yang tak bisa ditangiskan.
~ Dewi Lestari
there. She'd learned not to grow attached to anyone, too fond of anyone, so there could be no surprises and no hurt.
~ Diane Chamberlain
For had it been an adversary who taunted me, then I could have borne it; or had it been an enemy who vaunted himself against me, then I could have hidden from him. But it was you, a man after my own heart, my companion, my own familiar friend.
~ Diane Mott Davidson
Wyatt. He cheated
~ DiAnn Mills
Nora aveva la faccia di tutti coloro che amano gli altri - una faccia che sarebbe diventata cattiva quando avrebbe scoperto che amare senza riserve è essere traditi.
~ Djuna Barnes
She'd kept too many secrets and abandoned too many people, and that wasn't even the worst of it.
~ Dolly Parton
But it is not what I am saying that is hurting you; it is that you have wounds that I touch by what I have said. You are hurting yourself. There is no way I can take this personally.
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
The truth hurts sometimes. If we are going to be taught by God, the fisherman, we first need to be captured by Him. And His hook is going to have a bite. Of course, it's going to hurt. The truth hurts when we are sinners and when we acknowledge we are not surrendering to the truth.
~ Donald H. Calloway
Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.
~ Joko Beck