Top 100 Quotes About Hurt
#1. All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.
Xavier Dolan
#2. I'm sorry I hurt your hand ... with my face.
-Bobby Pendragon
D.J. MacHale
#3. Sometimes I caught my mother digging through old photo albums or staring at the wall or out the window. She'd get that look on her face that I knew meant she missed my father. Not enough to want him back. She missed him just enough for it to hurt. On
Sherman Alexie
#4. [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
#5. No matter how big his smile or how loud his laugh, you could hear the hurt underneath.
Kirby Larson
#6. And in situations where a man and a woman each receive negative feedback, the woman's self-confidence and self-esteem drop to a much greater degree. The internalization of failure and the insecurity it breeds hurt future performance, so this pattern has serious long-term consequences.
Sheryl Sandberg
#7. Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#8. You give me so much pleasure, why should I ever want to hurt you?
Samuel R. Delany
#9. When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.
Aaron Cox
#10. You didn't hurt me, babe," he said. "You marked me. Big difference. That night was the most important thing that's ever happened in my life. Holding you, catching Noah - it changed me forever. I didn't want to forget. So when the bruises started to fade, I went and got them inked, so I couldn't.
Joanna Wylde
#11. That was when you decided caring hurt too much and decided it'd be safer just to live for yourself
Stephen King
#12. I slapped a big fake smile on my face like I did every day, as a cam girl, as a barista, as anything, because women are taught to smile, that smiling means men are less likely to hurt us.
Leah Raeder
#13. I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.
Abraham Verghese
#14. Margaret grasped on to the magic of novels because they held out hope that Mary - and she herself - might yet have a chance at marriage. While my own experience of life was limited, I knew such a thing would not happen. It hurt, but the truth often does.
Tracy Chevalier
#15. But think about how it feels when your hands are so cold they go numb. How it's only when they start to thaw out that you realize how much they hurt.
Lauren Wolk
#16. Even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.
George Eliot
#17. The Hurt Artist is a riveting memoir by Shane Niemeyer that takes us on a raw, unedited life journey that includes the struggles of an addict trying to find peace and the joy and journey to every triathlete's promised land: Kona, Hawaii!
Jason Peter
#18. If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid.
Herman Melville
#19. Men take what women make and claim it as their own.Men don't love childrenThey kill them in a heartbeat to hurt a woman
Jessica Valenti
#20. Runners in shoes that cost more than $95 were more than twice as likely to get hurt as runners in shoes that cost less than $40.
Christopher McDougall
#21. People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.
Pete Hamill
#22. don't want to hurt anybody, but I'm desperate to distract Dad and Becky, to stop the thing that's happening.
Gilly Macmillan
#23. I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.
Jodi Picoult
#24. 12. And why should we not put our trust in Allaah while He indeed has guided us our ways. And we shall certainly bear with patience all the hurt you may cause us, and in Allaah (Alone) let those who trust, put their trust.
Anonymous
#25. On the day we filmed the scene, a bee stung me. I screamed and cried so much they called a doctor, and my father said, "It can't hurt that badly!" But it wasn't the pain that upset me, it was the thought that I mightn't be in the film. Already the little professional.
Natasha Richardson
#26. Bruises on the soul hurt even more than bruises on the leg and take longer to heal. Maybe the trick is to try to avoid smashing into stuff so much. And then to be kind to ourselves as we slowly heal.
Rachel Vail
#27. He could see his uncles slugging each other with such force that they had to be in love. Strangers would never want to hurt each other that badly.
Sherman Alexie
#28. When I lost a tennis match that made me upset or hurt emotionally I would find myself going to the piano and playing for hours. It was my place of refuge and solace.
Aaron Zigman
#29. 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
#30. Forgiveness is divine grace. Forgive yourself and others who have hurt you. You have a divine grace to heal yourself.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#31. 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
#32. I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven't lost that. I didn't lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven't lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.
Mike Tyson
#33. While Bradshaw applauded McNabb for playing hurt, he offered this dose of reality for the Eagles If he doesn't stay healthy, it's over, ... What are you going to do You roll the dice.
Terry Bradshaw
#34. Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn't depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.
Sharon Salzberg
#35. Maybe they hurt so much that the only way they can say it, is to say nothing
Matthew Dicks
#36. 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
#37. A little internal bleeding never hurt anyone. - Valkyrie
Derek Landy
#38. I'm not going to be that kind of a fighter. I'm going to dance and be pretty. I'm just going to win on points.And if I hurt my man I'm going to let him go and I'm not going to kill him just because somebody's watching.
Muhammad Ali
#39. Have you returned for me? Is this the last flash before starting anew? Will it hurt? Will it matter if it does? Was I kind enough? Did I love with more than fit inside me?
Tyler Knott Gregson
#40. He knocks once against the side. I don't get it at first, and then I laugh.
Let's establish a code for when you want to go all creeper on me. One knock means you'd like to come in.
"Yes, Evan." I'm laughing so hard, it's starting to hurt. "You can come in.
Rick Yancey
#41. I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.
Paulo Coelho
#42. Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate response is hence never cynicism nor aggression but, at the rare moments one can manage it, always love.
Alain De Botton
#43. It's hard to concentrate when your feelings are hurt.
Jenny Han
#44. Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.
Terry Brooks
#45. The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.
Mira Grant
#46. He could understand one guy punching another if legitimately provoked, but a man didn't abuse an animal or ever hurt a woman. Those were pretty basic morals.
Melody Anne
#47. And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.
Corrie Ten Boom
#48. The next morning, my head and every muscle in my body hurt as if I'd run a marathon through six feet of snow in stilettos.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#50. But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.
Jim McDermott
#51. How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.
John Updike
#52. We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#53. Here's the thing: 'The Hurt Locker' was an amazing, important film. But did I enjoy it? Of course not. It was very tough to watch and, while gripping, not exactly what you'd call a happy place.
Rachel Sklar
#54. A joke is either funny or it's not funny. If I hear a funny joke, you know what I do? I laugh, that's what I do. I don't start a focus group to see who got hurt by the joke.
Alonzo Bodden
#55. No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#56. Falling in love for the first time, and then the heartbreak of having it end, is difficult, but I don't think it would ever hurt as much as when my mother was killed in the boating accident. I feel a part of my heart has already been broken, and that place is reserved for mother.
Natasha Gregson Wagner
#57. How did I know you were going to show up?"
"Because you're psychic now?"
Dylan raised an eyebrow at that. "If I was actually psychic, sweetheart, I probably wouldn't have
gotten involved with you."
"Oh, ow," he said, grabbing his chest. "I think you just made my heart hurt.
Andrea Speed
#58. The guy who'd kissed me last week - that guy was gone. Sure, I'd rejected him, and sure, I didn't own him. But even so, it hurt. I missed the Richie who'd mooned over me.
James Patterson
#59. And here it is. That horrible, beautiful, stretched out moment between stubbing your toe and feeling the hurt. How long do I have before the pain comes? How bad will it be when it does?
Joe Abercrombie
#60. I nodded dejectedly. She was right. There wasn't a thing that we could do. But perhaps burn a few bunches of incense to Sekhmet. I would utter some frantic prayers to God too even though Christianity hadn't even been thought of yet. It wouldn't hurt to cover all of my bases.
Courtney Cole
#61. Lydia: Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#62. Nona I don't think your allowed to smoke in here.
Nona exhaled a large cloud of smoke.
Nona keeps their lights on. A little smoke won't hurt them.
Holly Hood
#63. Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.
J.K. Rowling
#64. Oh for God's sake how divine can I be? My feet hurt, I have gas and I need to pee.
John Scalzi
#65. Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room in which to parade his self-solicited hurt.
Paul Fussell
#66. There is always some sleight of hand going on in writing autobiography. So much has to be left out, especially things that might hurt or dismay people. But in a novel one can say everything. The novel is often autobiography distilled and / or transcended.
May Sarton
#67. Hurt of this magnitude is like menopause," Phyllis tells me. I've just wiped my nose with one of the hats. She takes it from me and hands me a tissue. "Comes in hot flashes. Just when you feel like you can't take it anymore, it passes for a bit. But it comes back, boy does it.
Tarryn Fisher
#68. He kept thinking about one word - forever - and felt the burning ache just beneath his rib cage. It hurt like the worst ass-kicking he'd ever gotten.
John Green
#70. Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. You want to punch a man in the face, but still refuse to let anyone hurt his children.
Fredrik Backman
#73. For us to move forward, we have to develop the courage to forward what is behind...the hurt/pain and unpleasant memories that haunt us in the dark moments. We must hold on to our faith as we step out in boldness, strongly believing that our very best lies ahead.
Kemi Sogunle
#74. 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
#75. Very few things hurt my young ego more than an Asian female openly shaming me for my Asian-ness. If she could not accept me, who could? If even Asian women saw the men of their own blood as less than other men, what was the use in arguing otherwise?
Alex Tizon
#76. Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt ... people.
Martin Luther
#77. I'm basically drawn to defeated, injured, hurt, barely walking characters.
Steven Shainberg
#78. I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with my teeth.
David Lynch
#79. Be mindful that hurt happens but so does healing. Learn from those not so good times and embrace the greatness to come.
Alexandra Elle
#80. I don't mean to be a racist but if you're going to get raped by a Japanese guy, it's not going to hurt at all.
Chelsea Handler
#81. Then realization had dawned. "Oh, my God, you're the one who hurt Davis, the boy I was with. You saw us together, and you threw him down a gully. He broke both of his legs!"
"He lived?" Gaze narrowing, Lothaire had murmured, "Not for much Longer.
Kresley Cole
#82. This is going to hurt, isn't it?"
"Yes it is."
"Am I allowed to call you names?"
It was very very hard not to laugh. Impertinent little brat.
Bianca Sommerland
#83. Do not be such a baby," he jeered, tugging my hands free.
"It hurts!" I howled.
"Of course it does." He laughed. "It hurt me too. Did you think becoming a vampire was easy? Get used to the pain. Much of it lies ahead.
Darren Shan
#84. Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.
Jonathan Ames
#85. Don't fuckin' do shit like that again, baby," he interuppted in a raspy, hurt voice. There was no anger in is voice, just a desolate crushed roughness. "Cause I ain't wanting to be without you. You hearing me? You're my fuckin' woman. We ride this road together, no matter what gets in our way.
Tillie Cole
#86. It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.
Deborah Harkness
#87. No monster would hold the hurt I see in your eyes or carry the guilt you do every day.
Katherine McIntyre
#88. Here's me opening my wrists before breakfast, Christmas day, and here's you asking if it hurt. Here's where I choose between mea culpa and Why the hell should I tell you?
Michael Donaghy
#89. I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.
Cathy Rigby
#90. Think before you speak, because words can really hurt, and you can't take back what you said, because the damage is already done.
M. Clarke
#91. You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
Lewis B. Smedes
#92. I can see now that it's the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better.
Jenny Han
#93. Choose your customers. Fire the ones that hurt your ability to deliver the right story to the others.
Seth
#94. I'm allowed to male mistakes
I'm allowed to feel good sometimes
Anxiety is my bitch
I don't like these feelings, but they won't hurt me
I'm going to be alright
Robert Duff
#95. Each time we hurt someone; we lose a piece of ourselves.
Joan Ambu
#96. She always forgot how pain was so upsetting. Cruel. It hurt your feelings. You just wanted it to stop, please, right now.
Liane Moriarty
#97. Suicide is part murder, revenge on those who hurt you, just as murder is part suicide, for a murderer knows he risks losing his life ...
Lucy Freeman
#98. I am not a violent person. I actually don't like to hurt people.
Gina Carano
#99. We all just live in this giant cycle where we screw things up and hurt people we love, and then we turn around and try to atone for that by fixing other things. And maybe we're all just waiting on our turn for a broken heart and the person who will fix it.
Cora Carmack
#100. Shut up. How was I supposed to know two little bears hurt you, Goldilocks?
Ilona Andrews
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