Hiding Your Hurt Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Alexandra Bracken

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

Ashly Lorenzana

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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