Top 100 Hurt The Quotes
#1. Is that, in the end - that capacity to hurt - the most essential ingredient for a ruler?
Gregory Maguire
#2. He'd wanted to track down and personally injure anyone who had ever done harm to her or made her unhappy. He'd tortured himself with painful knowledge: every white-hot factoid he could collect he'd shove up under his fingernails. The more it hurt, the more
he was convinced
he loved her.
Margaret Atwood
#3. The reduction of anguish to Hallmark-card hurt. The
Taiye Selasi
#4. Because I love him, and you don't hurt the people you love. Not on purpose.
Andrea Randall
#6. The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm lost in all this sadness, and so are they.
Ashly Lorenzana
#7. The Labyrinth, a walled garden where humans tortured plants and flowers into growing in straight lines and sharp corners so unnatural that it hurt the mind to see, was east of Thorn's court, on the very edge of the Center Kingdom.
Jon Evans
#8. In much of today's popular culture, the virtues of forgiveness and kindness are belittled, while ridicule, anger, and harsh criticism are encouraged. Let us not hurt the ones we love the most by selfish criticism!
David E. Sorensen
#9. Sometimes, Chase ... it's the emotional wounds that hurt the most." I pushed back the anger and sighed. "I'd rather he beat me. Cuts heal, bruises fade - but broken hearts? They carry scars for a lifetime.
Rachel Van Dyken
#11. Because I love you. And I hurt you. I hurt the person I love most in the world, and i will never forgive myself.
Jennifer Brown
#12. I love America. You always hurt the one you love.
David Frye
#13. Never sympathize with the thing that is stabbing God all the time. God has to hurt the thing that must go.
Oswald Chambers
#14. I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
Oleg Cassini
#15. Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone.
... they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong'
they hurt the ones closest to their hearts,
and we let the most foolish things tear us apart
Marilyn Monroe
#16. Somewhere along the line, between the idealisms of youth and the realities of adulthood, we become pacified by our jobs; we tolerate how we hurt the world so that we can sustain our lives. At some point, blurred in the past, we traded the greater good for ourselves.
Richard Beckham II
#17. Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.
Elizabeth Zimmermann
#18. Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
Paulo Coelho
#19. Like Lenny McLean said, and I agree with him totally, he told me it's these bastards that hurt the old people and fuck up the young kids, they are the animals and they hardly get any prison sentence for it.
Stephen Richards
#20. Those who cry the loudest are not always the ones who are hurt the most
Aesop
#21. Nothing was quite as unfair as a world where the right choice was the one that hurt the one person he needed to protect.
Kit Rocha
#22. Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all."
"Be patient and tough; one day this pain will be useful to you.
Ovid
#23. People say love isn't supposed to be painful. But maybe the best things in life are the ones that hurt the most after they're gone.
Julie Johnson
#24. It's not a person's actions that hurt the most. It's the love. If there was no love attached to the action, the pain would be a little easier to bear. He
Colleen Hoover
#25. I don't want to make a mistake that would hurt the cause of Christ late in my life, so I'm going to do everything I can to bring many people to Christ. If he can use me in that regard through 'Family Talk,' that will be my greatest legacy.
James Dobson
#26. We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either.
John Green
#27. Sunlight Chisels out every angle, swale, and creature on the surface, and ties you right to everything by your eyesight. The sky usually shines so blue it will make your eyes hurt. The ground glows a fine gold and the sky cuts right into the horizon like a blue knife into a warm loaf of bread.
Rex Fuller
#28. The most seductive sin, I suppose, is passing judgment on others, and the next must be acting out of one's anger when one has the power to hurt the ones who wound us.
Nell Gavin
#29. The stark nakedness and simplicity of the conflict with which humanity is oppressed - that of getting angry with and wishing to hurt the very person who is most loved.
John Bowlby
#30. You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.
Winston S. Churchill
#31. There's nothing or no one here that could possibly hurt the Fates - right, Mina?
Chanda Hahn
#32. Persecution has never hurt the church ... only prosperity.
Paul Washer
#33. Here's the thing about broken hearts. You can always survive them. Always. No matter how deep the hurt, the capacity to heal and move on is even stronger.
Susan Wiggs
#34. ACORN is organizing to make sure the job of rebuilding New Orleans is done by the people of New Orleans and truly benefits the communities who have been hurt the most.
Roseanne Barr
#35. The part that hurt the most was that no matter how upset he was, he still loved her and he wanted that feeling to go away.
Bernadette Marie
#36. If stupid hurt, the whole planet would be a world of pain.
Denis Boyles
#37. When you suffer such a big hurt, the longer you permit it to live in you, the bigger it grows, until it seeks to devour your soul.
Nalini Singh
#38. We always hurt the ones we love, darling.
E.L. James
#39. His [Osama bin Laden]excessive use of terror, including numerous attacks that indiscriminately killed many women and children, and of course many Muslims, has hurt the attractiveness of his message.
Joseph Nye
#40. Now there are five rules that separate Good from Evil, the gnome said, and wrote them in air with his smoking staff. 1. The Evil attack. The Good defend. 2. The Evil punish. The Good forgive. 3. The Evil hurt. The Good help. 4. The Evil take. The Good give. 5. The Evil hate. The Good love.
Soman Chainani
#41. A gifted player, who is not a team player, will ultimately hurt the team.
John Wooden
#42. I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.
Anthony Weiner
#43. We continue to be exasperated by the view, apparently gaining momentum in certain circles, that armed robbery is okay as long as nobody gets hurt! The proper solution to armed robbery is a dead robber, on the scene.
Jeff Cooper
#44. Denigrating art you don't understand doesn't hurt the art - it reveals something about your willingness to learn.
Seth Godin
#45. I often tell people when you make a mistake, you not only hurt yourself, but you hurt the ones that love you.
Magic Johnson
#46. I didn't even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and, weirdly, that hurt the most.
Rooney Mara
#47. Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever his or her country of origin, religion, descent, or any other ground.
Shirin Ebadi
#48. With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.
Neil LaBute
#49. The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment.
Charlie Huston
#50. When you have a good heart: You help too much. You trust too much. You give too much. You love too much. And it always seems you hurt the most.
Nishan
#51. Our lives are marked and shaped by our regrets. Things we all want to take back and can't. In a perfect world, we would never hurt the ones we love or cause hurt to befall them. But the world isn't perfect and neither are we.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#52. When we invest ourselves in deep personal relationships, we take a risk. We could always get hurt. The more we expose ourselves, the greater the potential for pain. No one can hurt us like someone we've trusted with our heart. No one.
Dave Earley
#53. If you can't hurt the ones who hurt you, sometimes hurting anyone will do. All
Jay Kristoff
#54. It might take only one second to hurt the one
you love but it takes forever to heal.
Danka V.
#55. You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.
Winston S. Churchill
#56. If someone comes to you with an idea its like he is giving you a fragile glass made by himself. If the glass does not match your preference do not throw it away. Give him back otherwise it may hurt the person who made it.
Osama Bin Noor
#57. And the people I have hurt, the mistakes I have made, the damage to myself and others, wasn't poor judgement; it was the place where love had hardened into loss.
Jeanette Winterson
#58. You can't look at someone and tell what they've been through. The scars that hurt the most are never visible on the surface.
~Caillen, page 243.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#59. Sooner or later, you'll choose," he whispered. "You'll want one of us more than you don't want to hurt the other. And you'll choose. I want to be the one you can't live without.
Tiffany Snow
#60. I believe in my own abilities and my future enough that I will not take a job that could hurt the integrity of my long-term career.
Eric Balfour
#61. Because what if I got to know you and you turned out to be just like they said? What if you weren't the person I hoped you were?
That, more than anything, would have hurt the most.
Jay Asher
#62. Research has shown that a barren environment is much more damaging to baby animals than it is to adult animals. It does not hurt the adult animals the same way it damages babies.
Temple Grandin
#63. Government has no right to hurt the hair of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.
John Adams
#64. The ones that hurt the most always say the least.
Fannie Flagg
#65. It felt like dying, but the part that really hurt the most was coming back to life.
Skye Warren
#66. There are some things that, if you say them out loud, will hurt the other person's feelings. I tend to say them anyway. It's better to be honest.
Katherine Heigl
#67. In love, everyone does things that hurt the other person, so there really is no "Right" and "Wrong". You just have to decide what you're willing to forgive
Yvonne Wood
#68. The purpose of pruning is to improve the quality of the roses, not to hurt the bush.
Florence Littauer
#70. We will remember the hurt, the injustice, and the trauma, but we can forgive the sinner.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#71. I don't hurt the industry. The industry hurts itself, by making so many lousy movies - as if General Motors deliberately put out a bad car.
Humphrey Bogart
#72. She's the psychic but she can't see what's coming up: the intersection of hurt and more hurt. The blind spot there is a killer.
Cath Crowley
#73. And Rocky still sounds angry at me for drilling a hole through his skull. I only did it to keep him close. Woulda lost him otherwise. Do we have to hurt the ones we love to keep them close?
Hugh Howey
#74. Who had been fighting with someone they loved?
Going at it long enough to unleash the irretrievable words they knew to say only because they had been trusted to know what would hurt the most.
Bill Clegg
#75. Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.
Brian May
#76. It occurred to me that more than loss, it was the longing that hurt the most.
Samantha Young
#77. You're going to fuck me right now, and I'm going to love every second of it, Gavin. You're going to fuck me, and you're not going to hurt the baby. But I can tell you, if you don't fuck me right now, I'm going to hurt you.
Gail McHugh
#78. I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.
Anne Lamott
#79. Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.
Vipin Sharma
#80. there are truths you know deep down, and it's only when someone else says them aloud do you really hear them. Those are the ones that hurt the most.
K. Bromberg
#81. The corporatization of the press really has hurt the press.
Howard Dean
#82. Piracy is important to talk about. It's harming the music industry. It hurts all of us. The public needs to understand every time they buy a pirated CD, they hurt the industry. The only ones who can change that are the fans and the people that buy CDs. It's everybody's responsibility to prevent it.
Luis Miguel
#84. I'm a strategic guy. I'm gonna figure out ways to hurt the defense, but it's not gonna be about throwing a ball through a wall.
Chad Pennington
#86. The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.
Earl Weaver
#87. They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
Ted Lindsay
#88. It's always the ones who believe who are hurt the most when things go wrong. She
Rachel Cohn
#89. I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book.
Paul Auster
#90. I think what's going to hurt the Republicans enormously is the extremist position of Mitt Romney on the immigration issue and states like New Mexico, states like Colorado, Nevada, Arizona - and I think it's going to be the margin of victory for President Obama, a very narrow victory.
Bill Richardson
#91. If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.
Muhammad Ali
#92. As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.
Plutarch
#93. Take care not to hurt the ruling faculty of your mind. If you were to guard against this in every action, you should enter upon those actions more safely.
Epictetus
#94. When you take the sires of the cage apart, you do not hurt the bird, but you help it. You let it out of its prison. How do you you know that death does not help me when it takes the wires of my cage down?-that it does not release me, and put me into some better place and better condition of life?
Randolph Sinks Foster
#95. Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. The choice not to have sex, not to be hurt. The choice not to risk pregnancy. And then ... what if she had become pregnant? The choice not to abort? The choice not to have a child?
China Mieville
#97. Sometimes we hurt the ones we love, but hurting ourselves to avoid it doesn't make it better.
Shannon A. Thompson
#98. Life is about love. It's about whom you love and whom you hurt. Life's about how you love yourself and how you hurt yourself. Life's about how you love and hurt the people close to you. Life is about how you love and hurt the people who just cross your path for a moment. Life is about love.
Matthew Kelly
#99. She always said hate hurt the hater worse than the hated, but you know what I'm sayin'?
Guinotte Wise
#100. I've often talked about that, and I've been asked that a couple of times and my feeling are that if you have a good show, a bad host will not even hurt the show.
Wink Martindale
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