Hiding Hurt Quotes

#1. The mask of kindly patronage had dropped away to show the hatred and the fear beneath.

Michael Moorcock

#2. One of the rooted convictions of each member of the human race is that he or she is able without difficulty to open a door which has baffled their fellows.

P.G. Wodehouse

#3. Behind this smile in my face
Lies the dark shadow of emptiness
Hiding from your eyes within my gaze
Concealed with sham happiness.

Alexia Chase

#4. After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

Osamu Dazai

#5. I know I've got no reason to be crying;
I know that there is nowhere left to run.
I know that there's no reason to be hiding,
I'm just mad at everyone; mad at everyone.

Margo T. Rose

#6. Sometimes the most consequential moments in my life originate from a state of completely witless human auto-pilot.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#7. He was so busy looking for the good in people, he didn't see the knife they're hiding.

Alexandra Bracken

#8. Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it's the safest place to hide from more pain.

Ashly Lorenzana

#9. Do you know ... what I think is a great pity? It is this: that we have all become such skeptics that we hardly believe what our pious grandmothers told us.

Isak Dinesen

#10. I am interested, for the first time in ages, in something other than my own misery. I have purpose. Or at least, I have a distraction. THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2013

Paula Hawkins

#11. If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.

Peter O'Toole

#12. Our own individual life history is also shaped that way. In large part, when you factor out fate, what we are is because of what we believe about ourselves. Wherever we are in the world, we mostly live in the small space between our ears.

Elizabeth Berg

#13. Your suffering needs to be respected. Don't try to ignore the hurt, because it is real. Just let the hurt soften you instead of hardening you. Let the hurt open you instead of closing you. Let the hurt send you looking for those who will accept you instead of hiding from those who reject you.

Bryant McGill

#14. I hate hiding how much the stupid things he did hurt me, but I hated the idea of him finding out even more.

Leigh Bardugo

#15. Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and become bigger and bigger, but when exposed to the light of truth, they shrink. You are only as sick as your secrets. So take off your mask, stop pretending you're perfect, and walk into freedom.

Rick Warren

#16. I clamped down on the sick, hurt feeling inside that threatened to make me burst into tears. My eyes dried instantly. I was good at hiding tears. I should be; I'd had three years to get good at it.

P.C. Cast

#17. Make up stories until you find one you can live with.

Lidia Yuknavitch