Quotes About Hurt

In later years, when an acquaintance inquired what had pained him most in the course of his eventful life, Grant responded readily, To be deceived by a friend. p809

cuckold. I am a cuckold. I have been cuckolded.

Deep, dark secrets always hurt to share. That's why we keep them in the deep dark.

Mucho antes de Cristo había en Grecia un poeta que decía: Tengo un gran arte, hiero duramente a aquellos que me hieren. Mi arte es más grande aún: quiero a aquellos que me quieren".

Why are they like that?' I asked Cico. We skirted Blue Lake and worked our way through the tall, golden grass to the creek. 'I don't know,' Cico answered, 'except that people, grown-ups and kids, seem to want to hurt each other - and it's worse when they're in a group.

It's coming to seem the only way to avoid hurting other people, which in his experience is what gives them power over you.

I believe that in the deepest places in their hearts, people are violent and take pleasure in hurting each other.

Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.

It takes great courage and personal strength to hold on to our center during times of great hurt. It takes wisdom to understand that our reactiveness only fans the flames of false drama.

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.

You knew and you've been laughing at me.' 'No.' 'Standing by and shaking with laughter.' 'Standing by and loving you.

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

People will disappoint you with their cruelty every time

what does love matter in a world where it's so easy to hurt someone?

If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and angels can't love the way men and women do.

When your father doesn't love you, a stone forms inside of you, hard and sharp enough to pierce through bone.

This is how he'll hurt you, this is the way you will blame yourself, this is your salvation, this is what you can see if you open your eyes.

Pain was something to get used to, to inure yourself against. I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse.

It's still horrible to wish the worst on anyone. I'm sure she had her reasons. Maybe people hurt her feelings, the same way I was hurt. A single word can feel like a rock being thrown at you.

That was like a hand clapped against Rose's chest, not to hurt, but astonish her, to take her breath away .

His cruelty was in his absence.

Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

We do not believe in heaven or hell...; we do not believe in eternal damnation. We believe only in the unavoidable horror of hurting others and of likewise being hurt.

We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we feel we are weak when the reality of ourselves is exposed- is made much more bearable when it is shared, face to face, in words that have expressive human eyes behind them...