logo

Quotes About Hurt

We hurt each other too well to let it drop
~ Junot Diaz
Even overeating — like Mom — wasn't that a rebellion that in the end only hurt us?
~ Justina Chen
From her dubious tone alone, I could see how Karin had no idea how terrifying words spoken quietly could be. How words chosen precisely to wreak maximum damage ticked like a bomb in your head, but exploded in your heart hours later, leaving you scarred and changed.
~ Justina Chen Headley
We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.
~ Al-Waleed bin Talal
I don't mind being criticised, but hearing yourself described as the next James Blunt - that hurts.
~ Paolo Nutini
People were hurt, and because they were hurt, they were angry and quarreled and were jealous of one another.
~ Emanuel Celler
I grew up not really having a father figure, and it didn't bother me, because he wasn't there in the first place. But then he started other families, and I was jealous. It was like he was happy without our family.
~ Labrinth
A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.'
~ Jon Stewart
Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."
~ Francis Bacon
It is not the lie that passes through the mind, but the lie that sinks in and settles in it, that does the hurt.
~ Francis Bacon
It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
~ Francis Bacon
After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of rage to strike one as untrue, and because they may have been hurtful to family, friends, lovers, husbands, or wives, one wishes them unsaid.
~ Frank Beddor
Those whom we find most difficult to love are those who need our love the most. The reason others seem unlovable is usually because they have already been hurt, and they are reacting to those hurts. They are suffering in their personalities the wounds of rejection. They need others who will love them with a God kind of love. Each additional rejection intensifies the wounds of previous rejections. 1
~ Frank Hammond
let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt. you hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows. you can act deaf and impervious to pain, but the stabs and the arrows pierce you anyway.
~ Frank Peretti
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
~ Fred Woodworth
I'm a romantic, and we romantics are more sensitive to the way people feel. We love more, and we hurt more. When we're hurt, we hurt for a long time.
~ Freddy Fender
She's thinking I betrayed her, and she's thinking it now! I can't live with that.
~ Frederik Pohl
There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.
~ Frederika Bremer
How are you feeling?" Kendra asked. "Stabbed," he said.
~ Brandon Mull
The question,' she replied, 'is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel hurt and worried for the characters. The simple truth is that authors like making people squirm. If this weren't the case, all novels would be filled completely with cute bunnies having birthday parties.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much—pain, frustration, anger... and I still loved her. I still do.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You don't stop loving someone just because they hurt you," he said. "It would certainly make things easier if you did.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You don't stop loving someone just because they hurt you" he said. "It would certainly make things easier if you did.
~ Brandon Sanderson