Quotes About Hurt

We injure those we love.

You could really feel physically wounded if someone hurt your feelings badly enough.

It was ridiculous of her to feel so wounded.

Once, a great handful of a girl out west told him - I never did love you. […]How mean of her to salve her spit curled conscience by trying to take away their past! In the kitchen he had started to use those very words on Lou - they sprang readily to mind, as wounding words do - but he stopped himself.

She speaks poniards, and every word stabs.

Anger often makes us hurt ourselves more than any enemy.

When we can step back even briefly from our hurt, sorrow, and anger, when we put our faith in the possibility of change, we create the possibility for non-judgmental inquiry that aims for healing rather than victory.

The causes of familial discord and distance are countless, but the results are often the same: secrecy, blame, sadness, hurt, confusion, and feelings of loss and grief.

And yet, when to act on that belief causes deep hurt to innocents who had nothing to do with the original wrong -- if there was one -- do we not have a greater responsibility to the present than to the past?

Smitty gave his best pout. "Why are y'all trying to hurt me?" "Because it's fun?" "It's easy." "I love it when you cry." Smitty sighed. "Forget I asked.

So Lightning says to Mud, "What would happen if I struck your blood?" And Mud says, "Brother, It would hurt, And make me the mother Of every living thing. But, Fire Boy, you ain't lifting my grass skirt Until you burn me a ring.

He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words.

When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know?

How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now.

How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding.

You're selfish and you're cold, and I'm tired of getting frostbite when I touch you. (Acheron)

How could one sentence uttered in anger cause so much damage? But then words were the most powerful thing in the universe. Cuts and bruises always healed, but words spoken in anger were most often permanent. They didn't damage the body, they destroyed the spirit. (Acheron)

So that's it then. You're just going to be mean to me. (Artemis) Mean to you? Mean? Fuck you, Artemis! I was butchered on the floor by your brother while you watched it happen. Then, when I was finally happy someplace, gods forbid, you tricked me into drinking your blood to bind me to you. And you think I'm mean? Bitch, please, you haven't seen mean yet. (Acheron)

Honestly? I don't want people around me for two reasons – they ultimately betray you or they die on you. Either way, you're screwed and you spend all your time obsessing on why you didn't see it coming. Or that you did something or didn't do something to cause it. No offense, but I don't like to be hurt and I'd rather just avoid it.(Ravyn)

No, he wasn't a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn't know how to cope in a world that had turned its back on him. [Astrid]

I can't. At least not for a while. I need time to get past this and I can't guarantee that I won't hurt him again. God knows, Nick has a true gift for saying the wrong thing in any given situation. (Acheron) You know he loves you, right? (Amanda) Yeah, but emotions don't have brains. (Acheron)

Well . . . he lets it ruin his life. He gets so obsessed with going after the one thing that hurt him that he loses sight of everything else. He becomes isolated from everyone and everything. Paranoid. He feels like he can't trust anyone around him ever. In the end, he loses everything, even his life. And for what? Total stupidity, if you ask me.

I wish I could take away your pain. I wish I could go back to when you were born and take you somewhere safe. Far away from all the people who've hurt you. (Kiara) You're doing that now. (Nykyrian)

And you haven't been betrayed yet, Nick. You don't know what that's like. What it does to you. The scars it leaves that never fade. (Ambrose)