Hurt Quotes

"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,Love like you'll never be hurt,Sing like there's nobody listening,And live like it's heaven on earth."

William W. Purkey

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

Mahatma Gandhi

"The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected."

Nicholas Sparks

"Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word."

George R.R. Martin

"I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."

C.S. Lewis

"here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever hurt her? But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair."

Haruki Murakami

"Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?"

Becca Fitzpatrick

"There are no coincidences in life. What person that wandered in and out of your life was there for some purpose, even if they caused you harm. Sometimes, it doesn’t make sense the short periods of time we get with people, or the outcomes from their choices. However, if you turn it over to God he promises that you will see the big picture in the hereafter. Nothing is too small to be a mistake."

Shannon L. Alder

"If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind."

Shannon L. Alder

"Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears."

Criss Jami

"I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend."

Nina LaCour

"When you hold a grudge, you want someone else’s sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet."

Steve Maraboli

"Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him."

Becca Fitzpatrick

"You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about."

Melissa de la Cruz

"Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?"

Jacqueline Carey

"To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God."

Jocelyn Soriano

"But even when I stop crying, even when we fall asleep and I'm nestled in his arms, this will leave another scar. No one will see it. No one will know. But it will be there. And eventually all of the scars will have scars, and that's all I'll be--one big scar of a love gone wrong."

Amanda Grace

"Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too."

Holly Black

"I couldn't stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day."

Becca Fitzpatrick

"As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong."

Tabitha Suzuma

"Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus."

Wallace Stegner

"I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning."

Amanda Grace

"Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late."

Jonathan Tropper

"You can't hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I'm in love with you, Mara. I love you. No matter what you do."

Michelle Hodkin

"You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you're still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here! You have been delayed but not denied. You are not a victim, you are a victor. You have a history of victory."

Steve Maraboli

"The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so."

Tammara Webber, Easy

"Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!"

Jocelyn Soriano

"There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone."

Shannon L. Alder

"And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything."

Christine Feehan

"William Hurt has a painful last name. Kevin Love has a name perfect for February 14th. But what about Johnny Longdong? Where does he fit?"

Jarod Kintz

"It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once."

Nina LaCour

"Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing."~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story"

Hilary Duff

"Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love"

Clive Barker

"The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people."

Isobelle Carmody

"I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.“Love does not make you a fool.”“He didn’t love me back.”“That does not make you a fool, either.”“Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?”“Sometimes never."

Mitch Albom

"Trying to hide my feelings to avoid getting hurt just ends up hurting not only myself—but also the person I am hiding my feelings from."

Jarod Kintz

"People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer."

Dan Pearce

"She cuts me deep with her words, with her withholding of words, and with her knife. I’m not sure which is the most painful."

Jarod Kintz

"You said you didn't want to get involved with me,that one of us would get hurt and how you couldn't bear it. Well that just isn't good enough..Look what happens to people just living their lives. They get hurt, it's not fair they get hurt but they do, all the time, no matter how careful they are. Somebody can just just come along and hurt them, for no stupid reason.."

Julian Gough

"I'll sleep forever and meet you in my dreams; it'll hurt less anyway. But the pain of losing you was worth the pleasure of having you, and I rest in bed knowing you'll know for the rest of your life what you are missing.-Karen Quan and Jarod Kintz"

Karen Quan

"One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects."

Marty Rubin

"When a person is punished for their honesty they begin to learn to lie."

Shannon L. Alder

"The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didn’twork out the first time."

Amanda Howells

"Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world."

Julian Gough

"Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands."

bell hooks

"It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams."

Jocelyn Soriano

"Words are magic. They have the power to hurt and to heal, and even withholding them has the power to hurt and to heal. What else has as much potency in its absence and can do without doing? What I mean is, even when you don’t say anything, you are communicating as effectively as if you’d spoken."

Jarod Kintz

"The dead do not hurt you; only the living do."

Tess Gerritsen

"Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past."

Shannon L. Alder

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