Hurt Less Quotes

#1. It started to hurt less because it mattered so much less.

Charlotte Shane

#2. I keep wondering if it'll ever hurt less. This...this hole in our lives." "Oh, I imagine it'll hurt less eventually. I think there will always be a hole, though. But lace is one of the most beautiful fabrics, you know. All those holes and gaps, but it's still complete somehow- still lovely.

Emery Lord

#3. I keep waiting for the day when it will hurt less. When I won't miss him as much

Colleen Hoover

#4. You should have asked me! You should have asked me!" I hated the tears that suddenly flooded my eyes and how my throat closed and choked me. I didn't want to be sad. I wanted to be angry. Angry hurt less."
p. 501 Bee to Fitz

Robin Hobb

#5. We got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love.

James Frey

#6. Love more, hurt less. Laugh more, cry less. Live more, worry less. Give more, take less. Hug more, fight less. And most important.. Remember that we are all one! We are love! I LOVE YOU ALL!

Abhishek Kumar

#7. For nearly four weeks, his family had been walking on eggshells around him, expecting him to fall apart at any moment and he was damn tired of it. He wished he could apart. Maybe it would hurt less if he could just say to hell with everything and find a corner to hide away in.

Nicola Sinclair

#8. At least she (Thomas' mom) knows what she wants is dead. What I want just refuses to be with me. Maybe I should compare notes with her on what's worse, for I swear to God sometimes I think if you were dead this would hurt less.

Joey W. Hill

#9. It would be easier if I didn't even make the playoffs, it would hurt less. But then I start thinking about how much fun it is.

LeBron James

#10. He looked longingly out the window at the towering skyline of New York City and thought about jumping. It would hurt less than following orders.

Kelly Moran

#11. Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.

Shane Koyczan

#12. The person with the bleeding finger doesn't hurt less for the person next to him with the bleeding arm.

Elizabeth Berg

#13. Their recommendation is that you should not put too much weight on regret; even if you have some, it will hurt less than you now think.

Daniel Kahneman

#14. What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.

Jodi Picoult

#15. Each time it would hurt less, and afterward she would love Lyon less, until one day there would be nothing left - no hurt, and no love. She

Jacqueline Susann

#16. My price was his oath that he'd never lay a hand on you again. I told him I'd forgive him in exchange for that.
She wished he'd punched her in the gut. It would have hurt less. Not trusting herself to keep from falling to her knees with shame right there, she just stalked down the hall.

Sarah J. Maas

#17. Family could be like a cushion, Kayla thought. Something soft to protect you from the blows of life. You couldn't stop the blows happening, but if you had people who cared around you then the blows hurt less.

Sarah Morgan

#18. Things get better - hurt less - over time. If you let them.

Rainbow Rowell

#19. If she hurts him because she loves him, is that still hurt? If she hurts him a lot now so that he will hurt less later, does that make her a terrible person? [...]
Is that not how love should work?

N.K. Jemisin

#20. Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less

J.A. Redmerski

#21. He's the kind of guy who might not have an expiration date. Who I could fall for so completely that I might as well put my heart in a blender right now because it would hurt less. Who I could want with the kind of passion that makes you forget important things like the promises you make to yourself.

Rachael Allen

#22. Caring about someone is scary, Mac. I know. Especially when you've lost people. It's easy to think it's not worth it. It's easy to think life will hurt less if you don't. But it's not life unless you care about it.

Victoria Schwab

#23. My forgiving you doesn't make my heart hurt less. It takes awhile to heal.

Abbi Glines

#24. Life can suck. It can hurt. It has teeth and won't hesitate to bite you. But if you pick yourself back up every time it knocks you down, it'll start to hurt less, because you'll be stronger.

T.J. Klune

#25. Because maybe it would be better if we all got apologized to first. Maybe it would hurt less, expecting to be hurt.

Courtney Summers

#26. I'm so fucking happy you're here," he whispered. "It makes it hurt less.

Jane Harvey-Berrick

#27. The lesson of my childhood was that if you anticipate misfortune, you make it hurt less. It's a fool's truth, but what truth isn

Vu Tran

#28. I'd never blame anyone else who falls for the same brand of seduction. I embrace that we're all similarly flawed. That makes the self-inflicted wounds hurt less. I'd read Tennessee Williams. I just didn't expect to be living my own tainted little version of Suddenly Last Summer.

Dan Skinner

#29. The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.

Chuck Palahniuk

#30. There's no right or wrong way to get through this. You just do it, one day at a time. And eventually, it'll start to hurt less.

Roxy Sloane

#31. You promised you would protect her Nico said.
He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger.It would've hurt less than reminding me of my promise.

Rick Riordan

#32. Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours; you would have friends less one.

Vikrmn

#33. ... nothing that happened could ever hurt the most important part of her, nothing that happened outside herself could ever make her less than what God had meant for her to be.

Klavan

#34. Real change is always violent, but it may hurt a lot less than what's in place before the violence occurs.

John Edgar Wideman

#35. Happy people don't fight for the sake of fighting.Happy people don't hurt each other.Sadness must be inside every human being.That made it lighter to bear the burden of a less than fulfilled life.

K.J. Kilton

#36. Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.

Susan Jeffers

#37. If you buy a book on golf instruction buy the thinnest book you can find. The thinner the book, chances are the easier and more elementary the instruction. It can do one of two things: help you more or hurt you less. Both are good compared to the alternative.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

#38. Without trust, we didn't have a shot. As much as I knew it, it didn't make the truth hurt any less.

Cindi Madsen

#39. Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.

B.B. King

#40. Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less.

Rick Warren

#41. Sometimes romance is of less importance than the feeling of being absolutely safe: of knowing that nothing and no one can hurt you, because the person who loves you most in all the world will destroy them if they try.

Seanan McGuire

#42. Resigned that those surrounding him had no idea who he was, and invariably kind to his social and intellectual inferiors, he sometimes felt doubly hurt that those who ought to have understood him really had less respect for him than his most casual acquaintances.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#43. You're the optimist all the way through, pretending to be a pessimist on the inside, because you can act like it hurts less if you say you knew all along it was going to go down like that.

Amy Jo Cousins

#44. In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.

Boots Riley

#45. His sufferings were nothing compared to their own, but that did not make him hurt any less.

George R R Martin

#46. Fallible, adj.
I was hurt. Of course I was hurt. But in a perverse way, I was relieved that you were the one who mad the mistake. It made me worry less about myself.

David Levithan

#47. Maybe forgiveness was giving the past less power to hurt me. Or even building new memories that were stronger than the painful ones.

Courtney C. Stevens

#48. Always seek less turbulent skies.
Hurt. Fly above it.
Betrayal. Fly above it.
Anger. Fly above it.
You are the one who is flying the plane.

Marianne Williamson

#49. Without pain, it feels almost like I don't have a body at all, almost like I'm a ghost, sitting in a chair, blinded and eternal.
Like I'm dead already.
Cuz how do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
"We are the choices we make, Todd," the Mayor says. "Nothing more, nothing less.

Patrick Ness

#50. In kindegarten, he had learned how to make a bruise stop hurting: you pressed it over and over with your thumb. the first times it hurt so much your eyes watered. The second time it hurt a little less. The tenth time, it was barely an ache.

Celeste Ng

#51. Just when I thought my feelings could not be hurt any worse. It was one thing to be betrayed. It was another thing to be considered less important than a diapered fruit spirit.

Rick Riordan

#52. It's bizarre, a punch in the face hurts less when you win than when you lose.

Georges St-Pierre

#53. Then tell me Mark, how can I do it? How do I watch her life fade everyday but not hurt? How do I continue to breath, when I know she takes one less breath everyday? Why Mark, Why is this happening to someone so precious?

D. Love

#54. In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

Richard Rohr

#55. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

Abraham Lincoln

#56. It gets better. It never gets easy, but it does start to hurt a little less.

Seanan McGuire

#57. That motherfucker hurt our coya, you son of a bitch, and if you're going to kill anyone, put the gun to your head first.(less)

Lora Leigh

#58. I want to be a better person. I want to be a stronger person. I want to be someone who hurts less.

Brian Molko

#59. Less is less. Heartbreak is heartbreak. You think I'm sitting here gloating. Telling myself that my suffering beats yours? Hurt is hurt. You don't measure these things.

Stephanie Kallos

#60. Take your risks now; as you become older, you become more fearful and less flexible. And I mean that literally. I hurt my knee this week on the treadmill, and it wasn't even on.

Amy Poehler

#61. -I didn't mean to hurt you.
-You shouldnae have been able to.
She blinked at that, but knew what he meant.
-I suppose not, no. we're still strangers. More or less.
-Only in the measure of time could we consider ourselved that.

(Graham & Katie)
Some Like It Scot

Donna Kauffman

#62. His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful for being difficult to explain.

Maggie Stiefvater

#63. I seem to watch less and less television. The best thing in 'Downton Abbey' is Penelope Wilton. She is always worth the watch.

John Hurt

#64. We are graduating members from the class of we made it, not the faded echoes of voices crying out names will never hurt me. Of course they did. But our lives will ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.

Shane Koyczan

#65. Time's many paradoxes. For instance: that when we are young and sensitive, we are also at our most hurtful; whereas when the blood begins to slow, when we feel less sharply, when we are more armoured and have learnt how to bear hurt, we tread more carefully. Nowadays

Julian Barnes

#66. In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.

David Foster Wallace

#67. When your world feels like it's been shattered to a million pieces, it doesn't hurt any less or more because of the details.

Erin Emerson

#68. When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less."
"Unless you love them.

Shirley Hazzard

#69. Many things will hurt you and me for we are very much alike. But will these things hurt us less if we refuse to accept them? Can we ease our hurts by refusing comfort from those who love us?

Ann Nolan Clark

#70. Please just tell me where you are.
His heart hurt with the wanting of it, the hurt no less painful fro being difficult to explain.

Maggie Stiefvater

#71. You don't have to hurt somebody just to make sure they don't hurt you first." Hawkeye, in one of his less cynical moments.

M*A*S*H Episode Guide Team

#72. As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.

Jack London

#73. Young love sucked. Old love wasn't much easier, but at least you had some scar tissue built up around your heart to make it hurt a little less.

Tere Michaels

#74. I think what draws me to young people is there is always this kind of openness that reacts very strongly to things. Sometimes when you get older, you react much less. That's also a reason why a lot of young people get hurt because if you're open, you're more subject to being hurt by things.

Lukas Moodysson

#75. We should be less concerned about hurting the feelings of the oppressors and more concerned about standing in solidarity with the oppressed.

Remi Kanazi

#76. We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence.

Luc De Clapiers

#77. I wasn't sure if seeing Abby hurt would ever make me feel anything less than a little crazy, but she didn't need a hotheaded boyfriend. She needed an understanding husband.

Jamie McGuire

#78. There was one time I wrestled two boys and I beat them both! They weighed a lot less than I did and I think they didn't want to hurt a girl, so I don't know if I really won - I'd like to think I did.

Jaimie Alexander

#79. When we come face-to-face with the tender, forgiving eye of our Redeemer, only then will we gain the power to forgive ourselves - and those who have used us. In light of the forgiveness Christ has offered us, how can we offer less to those who have hurt us?

Leslie Ludy

#80. Just because you didn't torture him doesn't mean you weren't rough, but I know why you did it." I threaded my fingers through his hair. "Thank you for trying to protect me." The barest smile touched his mouth. "I prefer simply killing people who hurt you. Much less complicated that way.

Jeaniene Frost

#81. I find that the less emotion I put into life, the less the past seems to hurt.

David Estes

#82. No, I do not want to be loved unconditionally. I want to be shown when I am treating you less than you deserve. I want you to leave if I ever start making you promises I do not see through. Love me for my flaws, yes, but don't you dare ever allow them to hurt you.

Beau Taplin

#83. I became a control freak as a defense mechanism. The more control I had in my life, the less chance of being surprised, of getting hurt.

J.A. Konrath

#84. But it was true she had never hurt anyone to get what she wanted. Was that what made her less than human?

Lauren Oliver

#85. You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.

Haruki Murakami

#86. When my heart is better, less shrunken, I will throw her out there to love again, without hesitation, even knowing what we know.

Jennifer Harrison

#87. We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer, and it doesn't hurt more or less if God caused it or could stop it, at least for me. I am definitely of the school that believes God has bigger stuff to worry about than me.

Jon Katz

#88. I know that experts say you're more likely to get hurt crossing the street than you are flying, but that doesn't make me any less frightened of flying. If anything, it makes me more afraid of crossing the street.

Ellen DeGeneres

#89. It is pointless to construct a hierarchy of who hurt more, and whether one kind of pain was more or less justified than another.

Stephanie Coontz

#90. His unfiltered conversation topics reminded me of my female sailor status: More than a hooker, less than a woman. I was a brick wall he could chuck rocks at all day and not feel a thing. But they hurt. God, they hurt.

Maggie Young

#91. The lack of education and lack of skills don't hurt the unemployed, they hurt America and American business, making us less competitive in the global market.

Robert Stempel

#92. It never hurts for potential opponents to think you're more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.

Amarillo Slim

#93. People who haven't experienced major setbacks sometimes feel that their hurts are somehow less legitimate or real.

Tullian Tchividjian

#94. Overspending is as certain a part of the holiday season as overeating. But pushing away from both the table and the cash register at least a little bit sooner can make the post-holiday hangover hurt a little bit less.

Jeffrey Kluger

#95. I have to say that I am much less impressed by crucifixion now that I am in childbirth. It is really not possible that anything could hurt more than this. I grieve for the suffering of Our Lord, of course. But if He had tried a bad birth He would know what pain is.

Philippa Gregory

#96. The amplitudes of life get smaller as you age. There are less and less things to experience for the first time. And each time you experience something, you don't get quite as excited. But you don't get quite as hurt, either. I wonder what it will feel like when I'm seventy ...

Brandon Stanton

#97. Hearts break along the same lines they broke before, I find, and they hurt no less in the rebreaking.

Na'ama Yehuda

#98. When we hurt for somebody, it's almost always related to our own emotions, with nothing to do with the other person. Sounds selfish, but it's true; and life is less complicated when we give in to the truth.

Vanessa Garden

#99. Of course we get hurt in love.
We have this immense need to immerse
violence into love.
As if a love that doesn't devastate is less of a verb.
As if a rain that doesn't drown wouldn't make the trees grow.

Akif Kichloo

#100. People I cared about could hurt my feels, but almost complete strangers? I could care less what they thought.

Patricia Briggs