Quotes About Leaving Someone Who Hurt You

#1. The measure of you as a leader is not what you do, but what others do because of what you do.

Howard G. Hendricks

#2. Dancing music, music sad,
Both together, sane and mad ...

John Keats

#3. The pain will never completely go away, but some of the hurt will fade leaving the room for true happiness

Abigail Lawrence

#4. I have to admit. Saying goodbye - leaving Bonnie. Was one of the hardest things I've ever done in my entire life. It actually hurt ...

A.R. Von

#5. If leaving is the right thing to do, then I'll hurt myself to keep from hurting you, to keep you safe.

Stephenie Meyer

#6. Becoming a superstar takes about 10,000 hours of hard work.

Seth Godin

#7. He asks, in a softer voice, "Does your arm still hurt?"
You touch it with your hand. The big ache is gone, leaving only the little, underneath ache that will gather and swell against the bone. The blood leaks out of the vein where he grabbed you. But you say, "It's better now.

Jim Grimsley

#8. You've been giving me the full-court press since you got here, and we know what'll happen if I let you through that door. But you're leaving. And when you do, I'll be the one who's hurt afterward. So why start something you have no intention of finishing?
- Lexie

Nicholas Sparks

#9. When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

P. J. O'Rourke

#10. Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.

Mason Cooley

#11. Listen to me," he said. "I will never hurt you or touch you. I won't put my hands on you unless you ask me. Beg me." I gasped and fell back against the door, strength leaving my legs. "And I want you to beg me," he said, still closer. "And I think someday you will.

Molly O'Keefe

#12. Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.

Dean Koontz

#13. How do you choose a place to settle, Enait? can you tell one from another?
You recognise it because you don't feel like leaving. Not because it's perfect, obviously. There aren't any perfect places. But there are places where at least no one tries to hurt you.

Fabio Geda

#14. What would you do?
Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?

Tim O'Brien

#15. Oh tell me again how you are saving me.
Oh tell me again how you are leaving me.
Take care, sweetheart. Play fair, sweetheart.
Living different lives in empty beds.

Renee Ruin

#16. The essence of mathematics lies precisely in its freedom.

Georg Cantor

#17. The drenched backyard full of runoff, and tiny, slimy, uncertain yard critters who had expected to remain buried in months of hard mud, peeking their heads out into the balmy New Year's air, asking, Wait, what?

Nina Riggs

#18. I didn't want to hurt for him anymore, to wonder whether in leaving him I'd made a mistake, to torment myself with all the ways I'd wronged him.

Cheryl Strayed

#19. And I laugh and I spin and dance and frolic in ecstasy and I ... I hurt no more, while you ... you petrified little man, are left to wonder if it's you I speak of.

Kellie Elmore

#20. Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

Stanislav Grof

#21. I ran to him, torn by conflicting urges. I wanted to hurt him. I wanted to make sure he was unhurt. I wanted to leave him in the dirt and run away. I wanted him to stop me from leaving.

Elly Blake

#22. It doesn't matter how many times you leave, it will always hurt to come back and remember what you once had and who you once were. Then it will hurt just as much to leave again, and so it goes over and over again.
Once you've started to leave, you will run your whole life.

Charlotte Eriksson

#23. We ought to recognize that our greatest battle is not with one another but with our pain, our problems, and our flaws. To be hurt, yet forgive. To do wrong, but forgive yourself. To depart from this world leaving only love. This is the reason you walk.

Wab Kinew

#24. There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else.

Shannon L. Alder

#25. Your intelligence is so deeply entangled with the social identification that you have taken on, your brains are not working in line with the life within you; it is working against your own life. That is the source of misery.

Jaggi Vasudev

#26. What Zayd had said to her was hurtful. The words speared across the most sensitive part of her heart like how a gardening spear cut along the leaves, leaving the top part of the bushes bare and lost.

Diyar Harraz

#27. [On her father's death:] I didn't know his leaving would hurt so much.

Erma Bombeck

#28. Leaving would imply suitcases and empty drawers, and late birthday cards with ten-dollar bills stuffed inside.

Julie Kagawa

#29. Before I could catch it, my heart slammed straight down to my feet, leaving me with a massive hole in my chest. It was amazing how I could just be going along, doing okay, and then suddenly-wham-I missed her so much even my fingernails hurt.

Jenna Evans Welch

#30. I don't understand, Jem. I don't understand why you'd leave me. Why would you that?

Rachel Ward

#31. 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

#32. And he feels hurt when he hears about wars,
And commerce, and the ships leaving
Their smoke on the high seas.
Because he knows all of this lacks the truth
A flower has in its blooming
And which moves with the sunlight
Changing the hills and valleys

Alberto Caeiro

#33. I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I've cried a few times, but mostly I'm empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and laugh and love has been surgically removed, leaving me hollowed out like a shell.

Jennifer Niven

#34. His grandparents lived on an old farm. Like he should have considered that psycho teenage girls might be leaving tainted steaks for his dog to find. If you hurt him, I'll kill you.

Brigid Kemmerer

#35. We ignore our feelings a lot, I realize. Many of us have to ... until they really bite us in the butt.

Queen Latifah

#36. I was with it Jim, really with it.

Mezz Mezzrow

#37. He'd given her his vow: to take care of her, to keep her from hurt or pain, from wanting for anything. Her leaving didn't negate his promises; they weren't conditional.

Melissa Marr

#38. This time, whatever you're gonna do, make sure it's for keeps. You might be able to threaten those guys into leaving us alone, but you won't bully me. If you hurt her, I'll hurt you.

Melyssa Winchester

#39. I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.
And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior

Veronica Roth

#40. I do go to hell. Every day. For you. And then he whirled around and stalked out of the library, leaving me trembling and confused, angry and hurt. But I didn't cry. I refused to cry another tear over Kyland Barrett.

Mia Sheridan