Top 100 Quotes About Being Hurt
#1. If we don't risk being hurt, we cannot give unconditional love. Unconditional love gives others the right to hurt us.
John Bevere
#2. Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.
Gladys Taber
#3. I played eight years without really being hurt seriously and hadn't had to deal with that part of the game. So, to get hurt and to have to miss games, that part of it was very hard. And so when I came back and somebody else had my job and I couldn't get it back. You know that was hard.
Drew Bledsoe
#4. You're so afraid of being hurt that you attack first. Only those who really care about you will weather the assault of your verbal attacks and stay. The rest will fall away.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#5. I didn't really feel I was being hurt, but you could feel it.
David Gest
#6. Being hurt would presuppose that he cared about my opinion. And that was something you couldn't be taught, right?
Anonymous
#7. Having a baby is different from all the ordinary ways of being hurt. it's worth it all. Other pain isn't worth anything, but that is.
Ruth Park
#8. 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
#9. Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt
Veronica Roth
#10. I don't get it. Why are many people drawn to someone who's hurt them? Maybe it's an ego thing- being hurt sucks, and you think you can erase that hurt by going back to the person who caused it. Then it will be like it never happened in the first place. Only problem is that it did happen.
Allison Van Diepen
#11. Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.
George Bernard Shaw
#12. You ever want to feel powerless? Watch the people you care about being hurt and know there is nothing you can do about it.
Corey Taylor
#13. Women not only get violated, but then we take on the struggle to end it too ... As a man, how could the destruction of women be anything to you but devastating? Think about the fact that the women being hurt are your mothers, daughters, sisters.
Eve Ensler
#14. I would give," he said, his voice rough, "everything I am to keep you from being hurt.
Faith Hunter
#15. When you lose someone important, not everything makes sense. Being angry was easier than being hurt. Being alone was easier than letting people get too close.
Audrey Bell
#16. I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure ... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one ...
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#17. Sometimes, it is precisely when you discover that you are living very happily that you suddenly find yourself in danger. To be happy means to discover that you are exposed to being hurt.
Siegfried Lenz
#18. Don't waste your time with fear.. Fear won't keep you safe from being hurt.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#19. Should I tell him I'm not afraid of being hurt? I'm afraid of not being in control.
Simone Elkeles
#20. Teenagers expressing this on a daily basis in the middle of the streets - you can't help but believe we are in the mind state of taking our losses and changing people's perceptions of us and our community. We are strong. Our families are tired of being hurt.
Kendrick Lamar
#21. Being hurt by someone you really cared about, it makes me want to make them regret ever hurting my heart. Best way of doing that? Success. Get ready for it.
Jessica Sanchez
#22. Loneliness is more painful than being hurt
Eiichiro Oda
#23. What else don't women like besides the Three Stooges? Tom Waits. Being hurt physically or emotionally.
Julie Klausner
#25. You can't protect him from being hurt, babe, no mattter what you do. Being vulnerable, letting people in, getting hurt...it's all a part of being in love.
Jenny Han
#26. As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
Daniel Breaker
#27. Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.
Goldie Hawn
#28. Thou wilt die soon and thou are not yet simple nor free from perturbations, nor without suspicion of being hurt by external things, nor kindly disposed towards all; nor dost thou yet place wisdom only in acting justly.
John Steinbeck
#29. I've had a few gigs where things have got out of hand and there has been a huge crush with my fans. They are important and I don't want them being hurt. They are a mad crowd.
Justin Bieber
#30. You need to decide whether you're willing to risk being hurt, plain and simple. You can go for it and have a wonderful relationship. Or you might go for it and crash and burn brilliantly. It's up to you if you want to take that risk, up to you if it's worth it or not.
Erin McCarthy
#31. Now he knew that it was only love when you knew there could be no end to it. When it was as inevitable as gravity. Falling in love, a helpless descent in which the only way to avoid being hurt was to keep going. Keep falling.
Lisa Kleypas
#32. I guess I can't stand seeing people being hurt. Being trampled around.
Syud
#33. The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.
Carrie Fisher
#34. It's amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we're trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#35. When you are used to being hurt, you will push people away - even those who really love you. Stop. Embrace love. It will change you.
Paula Heller Garland
#36. We do not believe in heaven or hell ... ; we do not believe in eternal damnation. We believe only in the unavoidable horror of hurting others and of likewise being hurt.
Alice Walker
#38. And bear this in mind; love is not always smooth and easy. Love can be piercing. Love means exposing yourself - all of yourself, every tender part - to being hurt. Because true love is not only the flower, true love is also the thorns.
Mia Sheridan
#39. Hurt but do not harm?" Zach asked. "What's the difference?"
"Hurt is a bruise on the outside." Nora sipped her mineral water delicately. "Harm is a bruise on the inside. If you're a masochist, pain feels like love to you. Not being hurt is what hurts.
Tiffany Reisz
#40. When people in a country are being hurt, the issues are bigger than sport. Let's hope the right decision is made
Mark Webber
#41. Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice.
Tess Gerritsen
#42. If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.
James Hillman
#43. Your life is intricately woven into the lives of scores and hundreds of others around you. Consider the variety of lives that you influence in one day. Somewhere within your circle of contacts someone is being hurt. Are you aware of it?
Billy Graham
#45. Being hurt is a pesky part of being human. You are bound to meet people who will hurt you again and again. Instead of asking them why again and again, ask yourself why you let them again and again. As Mahatma Gandhi once said, "Nobody can hurt you without your permission."
Rita Zahara
#46. Sometimes, instead of being hurt, you should look at betrayal as a gift. It makes it that much easier to sweep it up and toss it out with the rest of the trash. And why is that you ask? Because trash starts to stink ... and when it does, it has no more value in your life.
Donna Schoenrock
#47. Being scared to fail inspires creativity; heartbreak inspires creativity; being hurt by others inspires creativity; being lost inspires creativity. Your masterpiece isn't something that you will have made in the colorful, it is understood in the darkness. Use the anxiety within and let it serve you.
Forrest Curran
#48. Take responsibility and make a relationship the best it can be. We're all afraid of being hurt. Get rid of that fear. Be in the moment and enjoy the relationship - or you'll ruin it.
Moran Atias
#49. My mother never warned me not to do this or that for fear of being hurt. Of course I got hurt, but I was never afraid.
Katherine Stinson
#50. If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.
Madeleine L'Engle
#51. You really care about my sister, don't you? I don't want him to. He's so sweet. I can't imagine anyone loving Fia without being hurt by it.
Kiersten White
#52. Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.
Eckhart Tolle
#53. I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.
Tina Yothers
#54. How funny we are, I thought, the way we dance about each other, each afraid of being hurt by the other.
Judith Merkle Riley
#55. He was afraid of letting anyone know of his love, because if life had taught him anything, it was that love wasn't a prize, it was a weapon. And he was so tired of being hurt.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#56. I've learned that hurting you feels infinitely worse than being hurt myself.
Emma McLaughlin
#57. Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.
Philip G. Zimbardo
#58. Being hurt inevitably breeds feelings of hatred towards your attacker. But when we hurt others, we have to deal with their hatred for us, and our own feelings of guilt. Knowing what it feels like to be hurt is exactly why we try to be kind to others. That's what makes us humans.
Masashi Kishimoto
#59. Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.
Paulo Coelho
#60. Hurting someone you loved was even worse than being hurt. That stayed with you longer, and weighted you down all through the night into dawn.
Claudia Gray
#61. If she had hurt me, I could have forgiven her without even having to think about it; but I couldn't forgive her for being hurt.
Tana French
#62. This is what America's all about, nobody's being hurt they have a right to express themselves, I watched all the television I could on Miami-Dade and I didn't see anybody being shoved around.
Bob Dole
#63. 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
#64. I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
Oleg Cassini
#66. I do not fear being hurt, nor am I ever sorry should such pain take hold of me. My real fear would be to never know the the joy of loving someone so deeply as to be that vulnerable ...
Tonny K. Brown
#67. I just don't like feeling this way - stuck in the middle of respecting their choice but being hurt by it. How can I heal that contradiction?" "There is no contradiction. Go with what you feel,
S. Kelley Harrell
#68. In order for people to be happy, sometimes they have to take risks. It's true these risks can put them in danger of being hurt.
Meg Cabot
#69. My dreams don't work with its mission. And there's nothing wrong with that. I won't waste any more energy being hurt by it either.
Cat Patrick
#70. We cannot love a person with an all accepting, transcending and encompassing love without being hurt somewhat, without being disappointed, without being failed of our expectations. We cannot love without being broken, yet we cannot continue in love without being stronger than our brokenness.
Jocelyn Soriano
#71. My ride's here."
"Temporary ride."
Blue exploded, hurling her yogurt container into the recycling bin. "What is it, Orla? Jealousy? Or what? You just don't want me to like them as well as I do because ... you're trying to save me from being hurt? You know what else is temporary? Life.
Maggie Stiefvater
#72. Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and loaded, as complicated and full of subtext as a bleak and brilliant play.
Nick Hornby
#73. If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world.
Catharine MacKinnon
#74. The best defense against being hurt is to feel good about yourself and the way a person responds to you says more about them, than about you.
Brenda Shoshanna
#75. It takes a strong heart to love but it takes a stronger heart to continue to love after being hurt
Chandin Whitten
#76. Loving someone is kind of like offering forgiveness. There's no guarantee that they're not going to hurt you again. You can't promise perfection. But you choose to love and you choose to forgive, because living in fear of being hurt again is just a facsimile of life.
Liz Johnson
#77. If you cannot forgive because of hurt inflicted by others, you will be unwilling to be vulnerable for fear of being hurt again. Because people are sinners, you cannot love and you cannot minister without getting hurt.
Walter A. Henrichsen
#79. When you've been hurt by someone you love like he has, why would you ever seek love out? Why would you risk being hurt again?
Veronica Rossi
#80. The only thing worst than being hurt is everyone knowing that yoou're hurt.
Carrie Fisher
#81. When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.
Barbara Ess
#82. You left, but it wasn't your fault. So you've stayed perfect in my memory. I guess my fear is, if I let myself love you, you might turn out to be just human. And if you're just human, you could easily hurt me too. I couldn't survive being hurt by you Danny.
Kerry Heavens
#83. After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
Nancy Grace
#84. dreaded the thought of Larry being hurt by other inmates
Betsy Reavley
#85. The feeling of being hurt, is the proof that you are in love.
Ahmed Ayub
#86. Love means the courage to expose yourself to the potential pains of being hurt, deeply hurt by someone you trust.
Renita J. Weems
#87. No one escapes being hurt in this life, because unfortunately, we live in a fallen world. But please believe me when I say there's a great gift in pain.
Julie Lessman
#88. It is rarely comfortable to talk about climate change. Bringing something difficult up, it feels like somehow by mentioning this I'm kind of causing it, I'm hurting these people. But you're not hurting these people; climate change is hurting these people. You're telling them they're being hurt.
Margaret D. Klein
#89. In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.
Janet Fitch
#90. Yeah, that's funny, huh? ... Something hurts you real bad and you get used to it. Like being hurt becomes part of who you are.
Walter Dean Myers
#92. The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.
Thomas Merton
#93. It kind of sounds pretentious, but a film I find deeply romantic is 'Buffalo '66,' which is a film by Vincent Gallo. It's about how you break down all those barriers and expose yourself and open yourself up to ultimately being hurt.
Jim Sturgess
#94. It would seem that in Paine's view the code of government should be that of the legendary King Pausole, who prescribed but two laws for his subjects, the first being, Hurt no man , and the second, Then do as you please.
Albert J. Nock
#95. Justice consists in seeing that no harm is done to men. Whenever a man cries inwardly: 'Why am I being hurt?' harm is being done to him. He is often mistaken when he tries to define the harm, and why and by whom it is being inflicted on him. But the cry itself is infallible.
Simone Weil
#96. There're no guarantees in this life, and when we risk our hearts, there's always a chance of getting hurt. Speaking only for myself now, I'd much prefer taking a chance on being hurt over never knowing real, true love.
Marie Force
#97. The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#98. I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang.
Richard Chamberlain
#99. Well you know you're really dedicated to something when you lie about being hurt so no one will make you stop
Richie McCaw
#100. Do you want it bad enough to get over being hurt?
Richard Castle
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