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Quotes About Hurt

It bore an expression he'd seen before: love poisoned by disappointment.
~ John Connolly
Mum," said Christopher. "It's a demon. I don't think a poker will hurt it." "It will where I'm going to put it," said Mrs. Mayer.
~ John Connolly
I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.
~ John Connolly
If you stood motionless in the stream of time, listening to crying voices out of the past, you might presently believe that your feelings or your neighbour's were of puny significance because they had been experienced so often before and would be experienced again when you had gone. Whereas they did matter; they were the only reality; there was no shame in feeling the hurt.
~ John Dickson Carr
Disregard can be an act of violence.
~ John Dufresne
We're all ordinary in a way. We can all be hurt. We can all be unbalanced. We all have feelings. Life can treat us harshly, even shockingly sometimes.
~ Conor McPherson
Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don't mean that you can't also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.
~ John Irving
Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life.
~ Lucy Freeman
You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.
~ Anne Fortier
[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.
~ Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care
I used to talk about my personal life all the time. It's the most fun thing to talk about, the people in my life are hurt.
~ Claire Danes
If you're overwhelmed, lost, or like you life is out of control, do whatever you can that matters to someone else or ever did to you... it might not help, but it certainly won't hurt.
~ Ingrid Weir
You mustn't be so afraid of life - it's all we've got. Don't let it hurt you so much.
~ Anna Kavan
Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intriguingly, for some people they are an aperture through which wounds drain. The scapegoat of olden times, driven off for the bystanders sins, has become a tender thing, a running injury. There, running away is me: hurt it and you are hurting me.
~ Edward Hoagland
This is adding insult to injury.
~ Edward Moore
No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
The Past is a strange land, most strange. Wind blows not there, nor does rain fall: If they do, they cannot hurt at all.
~ Edward Thomas
Mistakes occur in the life of everyone, but the same or similar mistakes that happen repeatedly are not the mistakes. Such methods are the deliberate attempt of teasing and harassing to hurt and damage others.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
One may hurt and harm, personally; however, cannot deceive and fool easily and longer.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
What else should she have expected? That he'd be here, waiting with open arms for her forever? No. She had hurt him. And he had done what any sane person would do. And now it was too late.
~ Eileen Goudge
What happened was private. I was in it with Rose. She had hurt me grievously and now I was forever attached. I was in it now with all the women in the world. I walked home glad. I will die, I thought with a bounce in my step. I'm whole. Not whole like anyone else, but whole like me. Painful, but simple. It was very simple now.
~ Eileen Myles
already I know it will hurt this is the hurt country
~ Eileen Myles
My feelings were hurt. Once I started I couldn't seem to let it go. Be strange if the person who matters most in the whole world couldn't hurt your feelings, wouldn't it?
~ Eileen Wilks
she crashed to the sidewalk.
~ Eleanor Estes