Top 100 Quotes About When It Hurts
#1. It's easy to blame everyone else when it hurts to blame yourself. But in the end you have to face it.
Iris Johansen
#2. Honesty is not always the best
policy when it hurts the
person you care about the
most and pushes them away.
Alison G. Bailey
#3. Don't pray to me. Don't pray to me!" Kyle said, alarmed. "We're in this together. I've done things wrong too. We're human, Cole. We'll still make mistakes, but now we'll always have each other to hold when it hurts." Kyle's eyes filled with tears.
Debra Anastasia
#4. A wise man once told me family don't end in blood, but it doesn't start there either. Family cares about you, not what you can do for them. Family's there through the good, bad, all of it. They got your back even when it hurts. That's family
Eric Kripke
#5. People can only love you as much as they love themselves. Sometimes you have to live with that. Even when it hurts your heart, and even when it conflicts with your beliefs about what should be.
Kevin Breel
#6. Ignorance is bliss, except when it hurts
Paul Knott
#7. Love just enough. What's enough? Enough to hold. When it hurts, you're loving too much. Just enough to hold. Anything more than a handful and you're in trouble.
Sarah Winman
#8. Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it's awkward. When it's uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another and to meet each other in our questions.
Jamie Tworkowski
#9. Love is blue. A clear cerulean when new. A bright, bold, true blue in its glorious throes. And when it hurts, as it inevitably will, love turns deep, dark, the color of a bad bruise.
Nina Malkin
#10. When it hurts,' wrote the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz, 'we return to the banks of certain rivers,
Olivia Laing
#11. Where is the church when it hurts? If the church is doing its job - binding wounds, comforting the grieving, offering food to the hungry - I don't think people will wonder so much where God is when it hurts. They'll know where God is: in the presence of God's people on earth.
Philip Yancey
#12. For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It's supposed to. (46)
Keith Ablow
#13. The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?
Philip Yancey
#14. It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.
Seth Godin
#15. How do you regret one of the best nights of your entire life? You don't. You remember every word, every look. Even when it hurts, you still remember.
Jenny Han
#16. But there's nothing you like better than when it hurts a little, is there?" Lucien asked.
Gavriel's bloody mouth lifted in a voluptuous smile. "Sure there is. I like it when it hurts a lot.
Holly Black
#17. Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to ... When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.
Ray Bradbury
#18. There's a cardinal rule in book publishing that applies equally to brain surgery and auto mechanics: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Since people are still buying the original Where Is God When It Hurts?
Philip Yancey
#19. You got a way with words, you keep me smiling, even when it hurts.
Shania Twain
#20. When it hurts, don't be afraid to say ouch!
Mary Buchan
#21. There are 2 rules in extreme snowriding: First, always follow your heart; second, never cry when it hurts.
Warren Miller
#22. True healing, of deep connective tissue, takes place in community. Where is God when it hurts? Where God's people are.
Philip Yancey
#23. You are going to love me until I die. I'm going to make you love me even if it hurts, and when it hurts, I'm going to make it better, Brooke.
Katy Evans
#24. But that's what love is, isn't it? When it hurts you more to see someone suffer than it does to take the pain away?
Jodi Picoult
#25. Our job now, those of us simply observing today, shocked by this awful news, our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it's awkward. When it's uncool and embarrassing. Our job is to stand together, to carry the burdens of one another, and to meet one another in our questions.
Jamie Tworkowski
#26. When it hurts, you can't think of the entire picture. If you break it down to the moment, it becomes manageable.
Timothy O'Donnell
#27. And that's what it's about, isn't it? Love? Love's about making it last, making it stick, making it count - even when it hurts, when times are hard, when people change, when life changes them. If you love someone, then you have to want to love them, whoever they are.
Rowan Coleman
#28. I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.
Og Mandino
#29. Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.
Mercedes Lackey
#30. Leverage is the ability to apply positive pressure on yourself to follow through on your decisions even when it hurts.
Orrin Woodward
#32. You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.
Tama J. Kieves
#33. I'll never stop caring. But the thing about caring is, it's inconvenient. Sometimes you've got to give when it makes no sense to at all. Sometimes you've got to give until it hurts.
Jonathan Evison
#34. It hurts when people put you down.
Timbaland
#35. I want him so badly it hurts. But I want all of him. Not just the sex. I want his smiles and his teasing, his smouldering looks. His sad eyes when he thinks nobody's watching. Most of all, I want his heart.
L. H. Cosway
#36. I cry when I'm lonely. Reiko says it's good I can cry. But feeling lonely really hurts.
Haruki Murakami
#37. I wanted to forget you, too," Sage said morosely. "Even now, I still do. With you right here in front of me. Even after last night. It still hurts to think about when you left. How it felt to be so alone. How much I don't want to care about you anymore.
Sibylla Matilde
#38. You know, when someone hurts my feelings, somehow it does not comfort me to know that it was deliberate ... On the other hand, knowing that someone else thinks they are assholes helps a great deal."
"I think that's some kind of rule for the universe.
John Barnes
#39. A question: when is a bed not a bed? When it is angled lie-flat. My back hurts, my legs ache and my clothes are all rumpled - and all because the airline, which claimed to have a bed, actually offered up a torture machine which I prefer to call a slide.
Richard Quest
#40. I'm still a Chicagoan in the fact that I can't do Christmas with sand and palm trees. It just doesn't compute - it's not Christmas unless your face hurts when you step outside.
Johnny Galecki
#41. Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it's part of the game, you're going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that's how it goes. I don't write for the reviews.
Jodi Picoult
#42. It's really important that people know about it and the issue in schools because it happens every day to people and it really hurts when people get bullied.
Kaitlyn Dever
#43. I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.
L.M. Montgomery
#44. I understand how not even a priest can resist you when you want him. I can understand how love is something horrible and complex and hurting and something that still happens even if it shouldn't, and can't, and how one can want to be somebody else's world. I get it. And it fucking hurts.
Aleksandr Voinov
#45. What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.
Wayne Dyer
#46. It hurts when you lose a friend to death, it hurts even more when you lose a friend still living.
C.J. Tulli
#47. Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.
Susan Jeffers
#48. I think it's just a gash. Hurts like bloody hell, though. Remind me ... to never try to rescue you again."
"I can't believe the timing, that you stepped in just when I was thrusting. I didn't see you."
"I didn't see the knife, so we're even.
Lorraine Heath
#49. When the wound is fresh it hurts, more so when you are reminded to the hurt time and again
Aporva Kala
#50. Life is a beautiful journey, full of joy and pain
You never know when it will end, don't let a moment pass in vain ...
In the whole ruckus of life, nothing had I gained,
I just wanted freedom, no more did I wanted to be chained ...
Mehek Bassi
#51. Love isn't easy. It isn't perfect like in stories or movies--but it's real. When we feel it, it reminds us we are alive, and when we truly feel it--it hurts like hell--but it reminds us why we live... For the hope of love.
N.A. Koziol
#52. It always hurts when you lose a secret.
Elie Wiesel
#53. Losing still hurts, but that's good. When it stops hurting, that's when I stop playing.
Martina Navratilova
#54. I guess the more you start to love someone, the more you ache when they're gone, and maybe it's that middle ground that hurts the most, when you can see them and still not feel like you're near enough. So close and yet so far.
Robin Benway
#55. Nothing hurts me, Low Born. Absolutely nothing."
"How is that possible?" And for some reason he sounded as if he truly cared about her answer.
"When you stop feeling anything, you find it quite possible.
G.A. Aiken
#56. But wherever I am, whatever this world is, I've just got to be sure I'm me and that's what's real ... Know yourself and go in swinging. If it hurts when you hit it, it might be real, too.
Patrick Ness
#57. There's no room for me in your world;
It's time I stopped pretending.
But nothing hurts me more
Than a friendship when it's ending.
Margo T. Rose
#58. A small, forced smile played at Aidan's lips. "I don't like it when someone hurts what's mine," he said. He reached out, brushing a thumb across my bottom lip, an intimate gesture, one that made me blush. "And he hurt you.
Ashley Stoyanoff
#59. You think you're so selfless, you think you're working to save everyone, but what if you're going about it all wrong? At least when I live as a boy, no one gets hurt. But you pretendin' to be a martyr? Pretending to be the Fury? That hurts everyone.
Susan Dennard
#60. No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I don't do it if I can help it. Brightness disagrees with me: it hurts my eyes, wastes electricity and encourages moths, all sorts of things. I sit in the dark for a number of reasons.
Janice Galloway
#61. Here's another thing: There are certain wounds that never heal, certain hurts that never leave you alone, like a broken bone that heals wrong and always twinges when it's about to rain.
Robert Goolrick
#62. It hurts deeper is when somebody you love becomes someone you loved.
Vikrmn
#63. I mean, I know it shouldn't matter. Everyone says it's what's inside that counts. Unfortunately, that just isn't the case for the vast majority of society. Even when they claim they see you for who you are, they usually don't. And you find that out sooner or later, no matter how much it hurts.
Alanis Knight
#64. I had a lot of hurts and confusions. You know, it's hard when you're a kid to be different. You're all full of things, and you don't know that it's about.
Janis Joplin
#65. People say, "Reality bites!" I hope you don't wait until it bites you because when it does, it hurts like hell.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#66. Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.
Corrie Ten Boom
#67. That was when I realized all love does is hurt people. It lulls you into a false sense of security, and then bam! You slam into a brick wall of pain. A shit ton of pain. Love destroys people to the point where they don't even care who else they hurt in the process.
Kate Evangelista
#68. Whether you get hurt by weapons or feelings, it hurts when you get shot in the heart.
Hui-bin Jang
#69. Love is like the senses of the body.
Imagine you are blind, you can see an object using touch. You can feel around it and see it mentally.
Now imagine you can't feel, but can see. You can't feel what you see.
You may see love, but not feel love. When you feel love, you also so see it.
Blake McCormick
#70. I write most of my stuff. When I'm rejected in music, it hurts worse than when I don't get a role, because that's someone else's vision. If they don't see me as that part, even if I believe I'm the perfect person for it, that's their vision. The music is my vision.
Taryn Manning
#71. Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.
Augustus William Hare
#72. I like to touch you," Claudia said, in her soft, sultry voice. "There are times when I want so badly to touch you that it hurts not to." She lifted one hand to his face and brushed her fingertips along his cheek.
Elizabeth Elliott
#73. When you first fall in love, it's supposed to be awful. Awful, uncertain, scary, wonderful, confusing, all at once. That's how you know it's real. You have to care deeply. Passionately. That hurts.
Nancy Werlin
#74. The truth hurts, only when it can heal.
Rob Liano
#75. Sincerity like this staggers me; I've seen too little and too much of it one way and another; I've valued it so highly that when someone hands it to me as directly as you have, I'm not sure whether I should jump for joy or burst into tears. - Gwendolyn MacEwen to Milton Acorn, 1960 (age 19)
David Eso
#76. When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.
Andrew Shue
#77. Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
Henry Rollins
#78. It was one lesson he never forgot.You don't sit back when you or a loved one is being assaulted.And you don't act like the goverment with their "proportional responses" and all that nonsense.If someone hurts you,mercy and pity must be put aside,You eliminate the enemy.You scorch the earth.
Harlan Coben
#79. I wanted you to go away, because it hurts to be with you when I can't see you. - Po
Kristin Cashore
#80. When I first came up to the majors and I'd have a bad day, I'd punish myself. I would do something like not eat dinner. Now I've come to appreciate that we play 162 games a year, and you're going to have bad days. And not eating dinner hurts, it doesn't help.
Todd Helton
#81. I admit that I've been beaten up so many times in films, but we do not fake it - we actually have to fight when we shoot to make it real and to save film and time. Even the props that are not real, like the bats are plastic, but they're still very hard, so it still hurts.
Min-sik Choi
#82. When you love someone deeply, you cannot stop it, because how much you try that much it hurts
M.F. Moonzajer
#83. I think when your heart hurts this much it means you opened it wide once- and that is something to be proud of.
Glennon Melton
#84. I told Kate I didn't love her in an argument. But I do! Those heated moments are the worst, because that's when you can do the most damage. And they're bad, because you always hit them in the spot where you know it hurts.
Peter Andre
#85. The patient says, "Doctor, it hurts when I do this." "Then don't do that!"
Henny Youngman
#86. We must learn to see it in many ways, so that when one of the ways of looking hurts us, we can take refuge in another way of looking. You must always love the city.
Bilal Tanweer
#87. It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.
Mary J. Blige
#88. Humans cover themselves, and protect themselves, and when someone says, "You are pushing my buttons," it is not exactly true. What is true is that you are touching a wound in his mind, and he reacts because it hurts.
Miguel Ruiz
#89. Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn't mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all?
Martina Boone
#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. I'd try to stuff myself into one of these scenarios, but it's like wearing a size five sneaker when your foot is a seven
you can get by for a few steps, and then you sit down and pull off the shoe because it just plain hurts too much.
Jodi Picoult
#92. I don't know if I'm a tortured soul, but I was born heartbroken. I remember feeling it when I was so young. I was like, 'Mum, it hurts.'
FKA Twigs
#93. The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you abuse it, it reverses on you and it hurts you.
Frederick Lenz
#94. Poor gosling. It hurts to be lost. And worse to be home with no kind of homecoming ... I'll be lucky if I can do as well as you when all this's done, just a bit out of breath, a bit bruised and scratched, a bit wiser and sadder for it all.
Shannon Hale
#95. At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved.
John Green
#96. When you're talking about truth and love, you can wield your profession, your craft, in a way that hurts people because you're so good, and so when someone can present it in a way that is inviting people into their joy, that's when the most beautiful things are formed.
Josh Garrels
#97. Los Angeles is full of places to hide a body, but when the person inside the body doesn't love you, it's not an easy thing, turning that breathing person into a dead one.
Caroline Kepnes
#98. It's bizarre, a punch in the face hurts less when you win than when you lose.
Georges St-Pierre
#99. I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.
Pete Rozelle
#100. Remember, when you don't know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It's like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.
Kelly Link
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