Top 100 Quotes About Be Hurt
#1. You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?
Junot Diaz
#2. But I should have known from her original announcement of independence to believe in the sincerity of her distaste for involvement, instead hurling on at her as if and because in fact I wanted to be hurt and 'lacerate' myself
Jack Kerouac
#3. We are the wise. Do not envy us - We who are too wise to draw near the fire Lest we get burned; We who are too wise to love Lest love should vanish and we be hurt. We are the wise. Do not envy us our wisdom - We who are too wise to live Lest we should die.
Lois Duncan
#4. Humans don't exist on the same level as immortals. They can't even be hurt by our weapons. But you,Percy - you are part god,part human.You live in both worlds.You can be harmed by both,and you can affect both. That's what makes heroes so special.
Rick Riordan
#5. Tell yourself that the world is outside, that it's not to be hidden from you, that you are going to thrust yourself forward and be relaxed in the world. You have chosen a field where you're going to be hurt to the blood. But to retreat from the pain is death
Stella Adler
#6. Fool your heart and take over control if you don't want to be hurt.
Aashi Uppal
#7. [Cus D'Amato] told me, 'You're the type of guy who has to be hurt to learn.' I'm pissed off today because he was right about everything
Mike Tyson
#8. Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.
Holly Near
#9. It is impossible to be hurt by someone you love contrary to popular belief. Only something or someone you fear can hurt you.
Frederick Dodson
#10. When you love someone, you don't want to hurt them, even if they deserve to be hurt. When you love someone, you want to hurt them, even when they don't deserve to be hurt.
Ellen Hopkins
#11. 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
#12. It is better to be hurt by the raw truth rather than to be comfortably deceived. - Anonymous
Monica Murphy
#13. You'll need to take it easy on him, Tyler. He comes off tough as nails, but if you find the way in, he can be hurt.
We all can, love. We all can.
Joey W. Hill
#14. Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.
Paulo Coelho
#15. It's better to be hurt than to hurt others. Nice people can be happy with just that.
Sui Ishida
#16. We choose, ourselves, to be hurt or not to be hurt, no matter what. Us who decides. Nobody else.
Richard Bach
#17. It'll wash. Better I be a little dirty than a child be hurt. Clothes can be replaced. Children should always be cherished. (Ioel)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#18. When you write about justice, you better forget who is going to be hurt.
M.F. Moonzajer
#19. If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.
T.D. Jakes
#20. We want to be hurt, astonished, reminded we're alive.
Tim Kreider
#21. We're all ordinary in a way. We can all be hurt. We can all be unbalanced. We all have feelings. Life can treat us harshly, even shockingly sometimes.
Conor McPherson
#22. What you said was true. we don't live or love in a vacuum. There are people around us who care about us who would be hurt, maybe destroyed if we let ourselves feel what we might want to feel.
Cassandra Clare
#23. At times,
trust is bound to be broken,
promises are bound not to be kept,
hearts are bound to be hurt,
mistakes are bound to be make.
You are also bound to meet a person at their worst in order for you to confirm that you want to be part of their lives.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#25. It's okay to be hurt because what is pleasure without some pain.
Jasmine Sandozz
#27. I want to be hurt. I want to be in so much pain that I can't think and I can't remember why. That's what I want. That's all I want.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#28. She felt hurt that he had agreed so easily. And she laughed sourly at herself that she could ask a thing and be hurt when she got it.
John Steinbeck
#29. It was hope that was the problem. Hoping feelings wouldn't be hurt, hoping love would blossom, that was painful. But committing yourself to misery, that was just a dead feeling. It was pulling the Band-Aid and embracing the pain.
Stephen Emond
#30. No, no, no, I've just grown up too much to be hurt by what people's opinion of my love life is.
Angelina Jolie
#31. Because maybe it would be better if we all got apologized to first. Maybe it would hurt less, expecting to be hurt.
Courtney Summers
#32. So, when you have that experienced knowledge you lose the ability to hurt people and you also lose the ability to be hurt by people. That's love.
Deepak Chopra
#33. I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse.
Alice Hoffman
#34. I was never born and I will never die; I do not hurt and cannot be hurt; I am invincible, immortal, indestructible.
Aravind Adiga
#35. And she, the new mother of a daughter, felt a fierceness come over her that seized at her heart, that made her feel as if her bones were turned to steel, as if she could turn herself into a weapon to keep this daughter of hers from having to be hurt by the world outside the ring of her arms.
Lauren Groff
#36. Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love or even kindness, tasting one another in clumsly attempts to steal pleasure before they could be hurt or hated.
Laura Whitcomb
#37. Hurt, he'll never be hurt
he's made to hurt other people.
George Eliot
#38. Despite your best effort, people are going to hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.
Haruki Murakami
#39. To see certain things, you have to be lying on your back with tears in your eyes and a scalding potato in your mouth. It's possible, I think, that you have to be hurt to see anything at all.
Pete Dexter
#40. No man is hurt but by himself ... Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too.
Diogenes
#41. I'd rather be hurt all at once for a specific reason, than be hurt slowly every day.
Ashlyn
Kendall Ryan
#42. I'm a militant fundamentalist atheist. I'm going to get on a crowded train, unbutton my coat and say rational things. People will be hurt.
Ricky Gervais
#43. International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.
Narendra Modi
#44. You may be hurt or not recognized for the good you do for your community, society, and humanity but be forgiving and do your best anyway.
Debasish Mridha
#45. The boy answers, "Don't ask unless you are willing to be hurt."
Indra says, "I ask. Teach." (That, by the way, is a good Oriental idea: you don't teach until you are asked. You don't force your mission down people's throats.)
Joseph Campbell
#46. He recognized and accepted this strange new feeling: that he would rather be hurt himself than hurt Alec.
Cassandra Clare
#47. We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he's jealous, he cares-a woman shows how much she cares by how much she's willing to be hurt; by how much she will take; how much she will endure; how suicidal she's prepared to be.
Andrea Dworkin
#49. Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you
Ellen Hopkins
#50. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.
Denis Johnson
#51. To love is to suffer in a fallen world. There are no safe investments, there are no safe relationships. In this world there are no investments of love that come with a guarantee that you will not be hurt and disappointed.
Philip Carlson
#52. I have tried and I cannot find, either in scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply.
Charles R. Swindoll
#53. You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there's definitely a maturity about not seeking validation from everyone, every single time.
Guillermo Del Toro
#54. Pretending not to be hurt is a brave thing to do ... But you know what? Crying is braver. Why? Coz not everyone can accept the fact that ... Not all things are meant for you.
Lanie Lane
#55. We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.
Stephen King
#56. An unwillingness to endure the hardship of a depressed time keeps us from the possibility of capturing the wisdom and strength and joy that can exist on the other side. There is a season to be sad. Painful things hurt. Allow yourself to be hurt.
Eric Greitens
#57. He wasn't yours to get hurt by. He was someone else's and you knew that, so why are you offended? What right do you have to be hurt when you were a part of the deception (lying by omission)?
Donna Lynn Hope
#58. I've been asked about this constantly, and I compare it to how if you're walking down the street and some schizo guy comes up to you and vomits on you: You wouldn't be hurt by that, you'd just think it's weird.
Chuck Klosterman
#59. No one should ever be hurt or killed for saying, writing or drawing anything.
Steve Breen
#60. Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?
Jodi Picoult
#61. I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.
Patrick Rothfuss
#62. It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you arecruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.
Cary Grant
#64. I think there's always a bit of insecurity in love, if you truly love somebody. If you open yourself up, if you allow yourself to be hurt, there's potential vulnerability. That's real love. Somebody can stomp all over you if you really love them, and you give them your heart anyway.
Fred Schruers
#65. Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.
Roger Zelazny
#66. A dream is not a very safe thing to be near ... I know; I had one once. It's like a loaded pistol with a hair trigger: if it stays alive long enough, somebody is going to be hurt. But if it's a good dream, it's worth it.
William Faulkner
#67. Mom used to say that if you listen, people will tell you exactly how to hurt them. Because part of us wants to be hurt. We want to know how strong we really are.
Leah Raeder
#68. Those who claim to be hurt by words must be led to expect nothing as compensation. Otherwise, once they learn they can get something by claiming to be hurt, they will go into the business of being offended.
Jonathan Rauch
#69. We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.
Patrick DeWitt
#70. Come December 8th his ass gone be hurt. He aint fought 43 Floyd Mayweathers.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#71. I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt
Charles Bukowski
#72. I just want not to be hurt by him. I want it to be like it was when I was a child, when you thought the day you got married you lived happily ever after.
Fay Weldon
#73. It is good to be hurt once in a while..
Means emotions are still alive.. Means you can still love ,give, receive..
Just don't take the hurt too far..!!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#74. Already she knew that an idea could pain him like a bruise. He had grey eyes that showed every thought, and sometimes Charlotte worried that he might be hurt in some way that she would not be able to prevent.
Lauren Owen
#75. Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon
Naoko Takeuchi
#76. God is neither just nor unjust. 'No one be hurt in the slightest'; that is God's language. Justice and injustice is people's language.
Dada Bhagwan
#77. You should know whatever game you're playing, you can't win. Not against all of us. If you leave now, you won't be hurt. If you stay, we'll break you so bad that you'll be crawling away."
- Reed Royal
Erin Watt
#78. It's scary, opening yourself up to be hurt, I know. But even if you don't, you'll hurt anyway.
Karina Halle
#79. It is better to be hurt with the truth than to be encouraged with lies ...
Adedayo Kingjerry
#80. She thought about how it was so simple with animals. They gave their hearts without question or fear. They had no expectations. They were so easy to love. If people could only be like that, no one would ever be hurt, she thought. No one would ever need to learn how to forgive.
Elizabeth George
#81. I had never seen anyone fight and I had never been taught to defend myself. But I knew hurt and never wondered that day what it was I had to do if I didn't want to be hurt again.
Andrew Krivak
#82. It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.
Teddy Pendergrass
#83. You're afraid, Chris. You don't let yourself trust or feel too deeply, because you don't want to be hurt. I don't want to be hurt either." ...Lindsay Reynoso
Pamela Gibson
#84. I've learned not to attach personal feelings to critics who review your work. It's their opinions, their perceptions - it's a very subjective thing, and you can be hurt.
Steven Bauer
#85. I think that being vulnerable is about feeling helpless, or powerless ... it's about allowing myself to be in a place where I could be hurt.
Sadie Calvano
#86. How did you learn to stop crying? (Leta)
I nailed my heart shut and learned to stop caring about anyone except me. They can't make you cry when you don't give a shit about them or their opinions. You can only be hurt by the ones you love. (Aiden)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#87. Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.
Iyanla Vanzant
#88. Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
Haruki Murakami
#89. That she was both fearless and fragile and could be hurt badly in ways he could not fix.
Megan Abbott
#90. You can't give more or take more than the exact worth! If you give more than you need to ... you'll be hurt! In your body in the material world ... in your luck in the world of the stars ... and in your soul in the heavenly world!
CLAMP
#91. I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.
Taki Theodoracopulos
#92. People can be hurt so badly that they choose to just stop in their tracks.
Polly Horvath
#93. That for which, you are deserving; will come before you effortlessly. Your purity is required. What is required for your purity? [The intent of] 'May no living being in this world be hurt by me'. If anyone hurts you, it happens as per the law [nature's law].
Dada Bhagwan
#94. My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.
Kim Basinger
#95. Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody ... as a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.
Annie Lennox
#96. Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.
Jeanette Winterson
#97. If you never love anyone, then you'll never be hurt when they don't love you back or when they leave you.
Raine Miller
#98. It was better to be angry than to be hurt; maybe even better than being loved and held by him, because maybe anger was what she'd been feeling toward him all along, anger disguised as wanting.
Jonathan Franzen
#99. No matter where you run, if people are involved in your life, you will be hurt; it's a fact of life. But you of all people should know that loneliness hurts even worse.
K.M. Shea
#100. I think when we make choices - for
each choice is individual of the choices we have made before - we must examine not
only our reasons for making them but what result they will have, and whether good people will be hurt by our decisions.
Cassandra Clare
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