Quotes About Been Hurt

#1. You change for two reasons. Either you learn enough that you want to or you've been hurt enough that you have to.

Kate McGahan

#2. One of the blessings human beings take for granted is the ability to remember pain without re-feeling it. The pain of the physical wounds is long gone ... and the other kind of hurt, the damage done to our spirits, has been healed. We are careful with those scarred places in each other.

Lisa Kleypas

#3. Your thigh? Your shoulder? Is there any part of you that hasn't been hurt yet?"
He seemed to be contemplating my question for a moment and then he nodded. He tapped his chest. "Yeah, my heart." He looked over at me. "But its feeling mighty vulnerable these days, so who knows.

Tess Oliver

#4. I cannot believe that I am actually excited at the sight of him. It has been long since anyone has made me feel THIS ... and even though I know I've avoided THIS for fear of getting hurt, there's something about him that makes me want to trust him.

Jane Green

#5. When you've been hurt once, it's so hard to let go and not be afraid you won't be hurt again.

Tara Sivec

#6. You can see when someone's been hurt the way I was. It's obvious. Something changes in their eyes; pain becomes their center, even when they try to hide it.

Cheryl Rainfield

#7. Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.

Philip Yancey

#8. When we have been hurt, slighted, or wounded unfairly, we are not left alone to bear it. We can get on our knees and ask for the Lord's help to forgive.

Virginia H. Pearce

#9. I tried not to feel hurt. Here was my own dad,telling me he was sorry i'd been born.

Rick Riordan

#10. You were upset. I hurt you. Something must have happened to make you stay away from me. Is that right?" His nose was pressed under my ear and I fought back another round of tears because he just didn't fully grasp it. He could have been repeating Sheila's words for all I knew.
"You're leaving.

Amber L. Johnson

#11. He was hurting, and I hurt with him. We had never been able to maintain any level of detachment from each other's suffering, and we
didn't now.

R.K. Lilley

#12. Sometimes the nicest people are the ones who've been hurt the most

Frances Ivy

#13. Oddly, the burned hand didn't seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better if there had been pain. Pain was at least real.

Stephen King

#14. I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

Ernie Pyle

#15. I'm not a body shamer. The word fat has been used to hurt me my entire life.

Margaret Cho

#16. You shouldn't be afraid to take risks. It might not always work out, you might fail miserably and get hurt, but you'll never know unless you try. And if it does work, wouldn't it have been worth it?

J.M. Darhower

#17. Do you speak Gaelic Noah? she suddenly asked.
His heart clenched. It actually hurt, as though spikes of steel had been dug into it.
should I?
Maybe not ...

Lora Leigh

#18. I've been in crisis situations, I've been down, I've been hurt, I've been behind on the scorecards, and I've had to pull that shot out to knock somebody out. I've been in all kinds of situations and still come out on top.

Tyson Fury

#19. Look, I don't know who has been telling you over the years that you aren't worthy of love and happiness, but they're idiots. We all deserve it. And if people get hurt along the way, that's life. We've all been hurt. Doesn't that make love more crucial to our lives?

Karina Halle

#20. I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.

John Connolly

#21. Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.

John Philip Sousa

#22. Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.

Bell Hooks

#23. One must think until it hurts. One must worry a problem in one's mind until it seems there cannot be another aspect of it that hasn't been considered.

Roy Herbert Reinhart

#24. Its hard to make the decisions to find it in your heart to love someone when your heart is still in love with someone else. But it's even harder to make when you know that it has already been hurt by that someone its still in love with.

Jerome D. Williams

#25. It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling
it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#26. Don't hold yourself back because you're afraid or because you've been hurt ... acknowle dge your fear, accept it, and walk through it with confidence.

Iyanla Vanzant

#27. Someday we will forget the hardship, and the pain its cause us; we will realise, hurt is not the end. lessons appear to teach us strength, we learn happiness is an inside job and to cure our insanity we must not fear what is to come, but believe in what we've been taught.

Nikki Rowe

#28. I think that people tend to associate the word "wild" with something that is used up and dirty; but I associate the word "wild" with wildflowers, wild roses, things in fields that haven't been hurt yet! So let's be things in fields that have healed and that have grown. Let's be wild.

C. JoyBell C.

#29. Perhaps we hurt for the lost opportunities, for the conversation that would have released all the unspoken words, for the way it should have been. Where

Mark Lawrence

#30. People rarely ventured outside the realm of their own hurts. They believed their own suffering was obvious to all, but might as well have been wearing blinders for all that they noticed anyone else's.

Nenia Campbell

#31. I'm loyal to a fault - even though I've been to hell and back with Vince McMahon, I would never to do anything to hurt him. But it's also survival of the fittest out there.

Hulk Hogan

#32. Still, I never heard him say that he hated or wanted to hurt or kill someone for all the horrific things that had been happening to him and his family.

Savo Heleta

#33. The Queen gave him a look: special and secretive and shared between the two of them.You warned her about us, the look seemed to say.That we would hurt her, break her as you might break a twig between your fingers. But you, who thought you could not be touched - you are the one who has been broken.

Cassandra Clare

#34. You'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been remaining closed.

Martha N. Beck

#35. I've been hurt and disappointed so many times that, in a way, I have given up. My heart is finally healed, and I'm not sure I'm ready to expose it at the risk of it getting broken again.

Justine Faeth

#36. I think we've all been kind of ... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit.

Mark Ruffalo

#37. For there are other times when I think that I have always been here, that I was born here some endless age ago. And the memories are all false ones, sent to make me hurt the more.

George R R Martin

#38. You are strong enough to sing as you wish, not as your pain has forced to. You aren't your hurt. You're other than that. You are not the broken things you've been.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#39. In the last few days, I have been the victim of a campaign of slander and shameful lies, a campaign which has deeply shocked and hurt me. Enough is enough.

Dominique De Villepin

#40. 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

#41. What could be more unjust than hurting an animal or a child? When you've been gifted dominion over something, that responsibility is real.

Maggie Q

#42. Don't blame if people are too harsh on you, maybe they have been hurt badly before.

M.F. Moonzajer

#43. Children don't have hearts yet, not really. They haven't been hurt into the need for one.

John Logan

#44. I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art

Steve Bruce

#45. Girls like you can't understand, Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.

Kristin Hannah

#46. If you've been hurt and you've grieved and you've been through the mill, it takes a long time to get over it.

Sara Sheridan

#47. I'd put my faith in god, but I haven't met him, and I've been hurt before.

Dov Davidoff

#48. revenge is an admission that we have been hurt. That cannot be a great mind which is disturbed by injury. He who has hurt you must be either stronger or weaker than yourself. If he be weaker, spare him: if he be stronger, spare yourself.

Seneca.

#49. 'I think that's why his asking me to pull the plug hurt so much. He kept saying if I really loved him, I should have been able to do it. And I thought, if he really loved me, he would never have asked.'

Barbara Elsborg

#50. Surely my macking on some guy in an insane asylum wouldn't hurt him. He'd been living with his stalker, for heaven's sake.

Darynda Jones

#51. I didn't know what to say. It kind of hurt just to look at her, in a way i'd forgotten. Sort of like a splinter - not when you first get it under your skin, but the slow ache after it has been taken out.

Maggie Stiefvater

#52. Look, I think maybe we've been hurt so often that even if someone harms us accidentally, we're blind to see it that way.

Kresley Cole

#53. I've been married four times and caused a great deal of hurt and upset around me.

Roger Moore

#54. Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth.

Brene Brown

#55. Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.

Bryan Robson

#56. It would be difficult to have any unfulfilled ambitions because I don't have any ambitions. I've never been that kind of performer.

John Hurt

#57. This man took my last son. No one could claim my hurt, or my anger. No one could have a greater claim on this one's life." Her voice was tight and fierce. She patted Ray's arm. "There's been enough killing down here. We have to find a way to live without the killing.

Robert Crais

#58. Breathe, rabbit. I'll only hurt you if you do something stupid."
I cleared my throat "Define stupid".
When his lips pulled back, I flinched, only to realize that I'd amused him.
"Have you been locked in a tower your whole life?

Kat Falls

#59. 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

#60. If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probably that you have never heard God speak.

Amy Carmichael

#61. It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine: First and most important, my family; also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family, and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.

William J. Clinton

#62. She'd been betrayed, shot, saved, healed, hurt, healed again, forced to resurrect two men, only to witness the reassassination of one of them.

V.E Schwab

#63. He had no reason to want to avenge Horn, and for Applethorpe no vengeance would ever be enough. It was natural for him to want to hurt the man who had been the instrument of his first adult grief; natural, but not right.

Ellen Kushner

#64. I don't appreciate the disrespect, because I've been playing hurt for a guy who won't respect you. I don't deserve it ... It's time for me to move on.

Melvin Mora

#65. I have been waiting to win a world championship since 1985. I've had three cracks at a world title - in karting, I finished third at Le Mans; that hurt because it was very close, but then in Formula One there wasn't really an opportunity to finally crack it, so it's third time lucky.

Allan McNish

#66. She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.

Holly Black

#67. I hate that she's hurt. I hate that she's been hurt, by me and by others, throughout the entire arc of her life. I barely remember pain, but when I see it in her I feel it in myself, in disproportionate measure. it creeps into my eyes, stinging, burning.

Isaac Marion

#68. Much as I have no wish to hurt anyone's feelings, my first obligation has not been to be nice but to be true to my perhaps peculiar memories, experiences and feelings.

Edward W. Said

#69. Let him tell us he's never been hurt, but that's the definition of getting hurt.

Andre Ward

#70. Words that are full of hurt sometimes need to be left in the air where they have been spoken.

Alexander McCall Smith

#71. It was like someone had died- like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest of true loves, as if that were not enough to kill anyone. It was also losing a whole future, a whole family- the whole life that I'd chosen ...

Stephenie Meyer

#72. Shane: Aren't you going to ask me where I've been, who I've been with?
Rebecca: Are you trying to hurt me?
Shane: Maybe I am. Maybe I'm trying to see if I can.
Rebecca:You can.

Nora Roberts

#73. Then there was the time in Hollywood when I sat down in a breakaway chair and it collapsed on me. I was nearly knocked out and might have been even more seriously hurt but my fall was broken by the smog.

Jack Paar

#74. I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

Peter Benchley

#75. The idea makes a lot of people uncomfortable. [ ... ] It's hurt a great many people and been responsible for a great deal of misery. But, to my mind at least, that doesn't mean it can't now bring pleasure to someone.

Manna Francis

#76. To know a man properly, you must know the shape of his hurt - the specific wound around which his person has been formed like a scab.

Kei Miller

#77. You've been hurt before, I can
see it in your eyes. You try to
smile it away, some things you
can't disguise.

Demi Lovato

#78. Fearless is falling madly in love again, even though you've been hurt before.

Taylor Swift

#79. The love was so passionate. Neither were happy with anyone else. But when a time came that they were able to be together, too much had been left unsaid. Too much time had passed and too much hurt filled their hearts.

Paula Heller Garland

#80. Work like you don't need money, love like you've never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching.

Unknown Author 909

#81. I know that something has answered my prayer, and at the same time has also told me what my sacrifice must be. I have been offered a chance to never hurt Day again.

Marie Lu

#82. I don't need to be any place else, because the music takes me to the only place I want to be right now. To the place where I am and have always been wholly me, the only church I've ever belonged to, the only place I've ever prayed.

Daisy Whitney

#83. Five minutes before I went on, I looked at my manager and said, I'm going to get booed. I know it's going to happen. And you're responsible because you put me on here. It was horrible. I've never been more hurt in my entire life.

Shannen Doherty

#84. They promised me you wouldn't be hurt," he said. "And you haven't been, really. I mean, suppose you'd had a baby and lost it; wouldn't it be the same? And we're getting so much in return, Ro.

Ira Levin

#85. I have reason to be shy. I've been hurt plenty.

Ethel Waters

#86. On the ward there was hurt and pain so big and so deep that speech could not express it. I had been interested in philosophy, and suddenly philosophy came alive for me, for here the basic questions of human existence were not abstractions: they were embodied in human suffering

Frank X. Barron

#87. That's new." His gaze was hot and fierce.
"My cock? I'm fairly certain it's always been there."
His grin flashed briefly. "No Lio, you've been cut. Circumcised."
"Oh." I stared at the smooth column of my shaft. "That must have hurt.

Belinda McBride

#88. You sound so reasonable for a man who's been jilted. Can't you sound a bit angry? You just lost the best sex of your life. Punch a wall or something!

Bronwyn Scott

#89. Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive.

Jeff Bridges

#90. Losing a basketball game hurts but when you see what you've been through, you look on it and say well if this is the worst thing that can happen to me, then I'm okay.

LeBron James

#91. When you've been hurt, you don't make excuses for the jerk who hurt you. That's his mama's job.

Catherine Anderson

#92. If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.

Kathe Kollwitz

#93. It hurt, remembering. Hurt because there was so much I'd done, so much I'd yet to do. In so many different ways, I now realized, not remembering had been a blessing. A brief respite in the twisted bloody mess that my life had become.
But at least I knew who I was.

Keri Arthur

#94. And I chose you. I had been wrong before. It was romantic, what he said, what he did. Even while he hurt me, I had his full focus, his complete attention. His care, like worship. His love, an obsession.

Skye Warren

#95. I've never been able to stand up for myself while growing up, but I will stand up for you against anyone who ever threatens to hurt you in any way.

Daniele Lanzarotta

#96. This is someone who has a very stringent morality, and believes the system works, and has been deeply, deeply disappointed, and hurt, by it. You know, so she's in a very different place in life.

Julianne Moore

#97. You don't just walk out because you think someone has insulted you and your pride has been hurt.

Jimmy Iovine

#98. Whoever decided that love should hurt sucks.
It's been silent for too long, and I watch as Mom wipes a tear off her cheek. Whoever decided that life should hurt sucks even more.

Amy Garvey

#99. We have all been hurt at some point in our lives, from a spouse, a friend, an employer, a co-worker,a pastor and sometimes the wounds are so deep we wonder if they will ever heal.

Michael Richard Stosic

#100. 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