Quotes About Hurt

When I'd been sad, I hurt myself. Amma hurt other people. When I'd wanted attention, I'd submitted myself to boys: Do what you want; just like me. Amma's sexual offerings seemed a form of aggression. Long skinny legs and slim wrists and high, babied voice all aimed like a gun. Do what I want; I might like you.

It was a punishing whim on my part, a nasty, selfish twist of the knife.

You know how people sometimes say they have to hurt because if they don't, they're so numb they won't feel anything?

You know how people sometimes say they have to hurt because if they don't, they're so numb they won't feel anything?" "Mmm." "What if it's the opposite?" Amma whispered. "What if you hurt because it feels so good? Like you have a tingling, like someone left a switch on in your body. And nothing can turn the switch off except hurting? What does that mean?

What have we done to eachother?

What possessed you to do such a thing?' which was prim for Diane, but filled with more hurt than three dozen fuck yous.

Me duele reconocerlo.) De modo que el cobertizo, bien

Uma criança criada com veneno considera dor um consolo.

Finger, whore, hollow!

I've suffered betrayal with all five senses.

He killed my soul, which should be a crime.

Mistakes that cost lives aren't easy to understand or forgive, but they happen. Despite what they want us mortals to believe, doctors are human. And where there are human beings, there's human error. It's inevitable. When doctors make mistakes, people hurt.

Who could blame her for seeking my scars in return? When we are unhappy we hurt.

The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation.

I know myself, and I know the depth of my selfishness. I cannot be at ease (and to be at ease is my chief wish) if someone else is in pain, visibly or audibly or tactually. Sometimes this is mistaken by the innocent for unselfishness, when all I am doing is sacrificing a small good - in this case postponement in attending to my hurt - for the sake of a far greater good) a peace of mind when I need think only of myself.

for aren't lovers nearly always innocent? They have committed no crime, they are certain in their own minds that they have done no wrong, 'as long as no one but myself is hurt', the old tag is ready on their lips, and love, of course, excuses everything—so they believe, and so I used to believe in the days when I loved.

He felt the sad relief of a man who realizes that there is one love at least that no longer hurts him.

The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or be possessed without humiliation.

You can give anyone pain from a distance

EMMA: Ah. There you are. You— little— John Sublime: Shhuhh… Hup. Don't. Please… My mom met your parents in the Hamptons… I… I go through agonies of conscience every time we have to hurt one of you beautiful creatures… Emma… I'm doing God's will… EMMA: Shut up! I am very cross about this! Very very very cross indeed! I look like a bloody heavyweight boxer!

But fear and danger aren't always directly proportional. We're all terrified by rattlesnakes, but the spider we brush off our sleeve with hardly a thought is far more likely to hurt us.

It had been a quiet day in the Kitsap County Morgue, which meant it had been a good day. No one who worked there ever cursed their jobs because there was "nothing to do." An empty chiller meant a day without carrying the hurt of someone else's loss. A child. A wife. Even a friend.

Sometimes hurt so deep gets buried by hope.

mean, not for the same reason," Birdy