Hurt Feelings Quotes - Page 4

• If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

  Bellamy Young

  Lonely, Gratitude, Hurt

  "Bellamy Young, ‘Scandal’ Star, Opens Up About How She Keeps Her Center In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2013.

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• When you're as important as I am, getting your feelings hurt by me is almost an honor.

  Matt Groening

  Hurt, Feelings, Honor

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• The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, they light up in response to social ostracism, just as they would when triggered by physically harmful stimuli. When people speak of feeling hurt or of having emotional pain, they are not being abstract or poetic, but scientifically quite precise.

  Gabor Mate

  Hurt, Pain, Emotional

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• Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Hurt, Issues, People

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• Love those who hurt you the most, because they are probably the ones closest to you.
  They, too, are on a path, and just like you they are learning to walk before they can fly. Imagine of everybody you hurt in life turned their backs on you? You would be playing a hell of a lot of solitaire.
  Love them no matter what.

  Nikki Sixx

  Hurt, Would Be, Matter

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• A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Hurt, Children, Women

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• Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Hurt, Children, Feelings

  "Living Legends: An Interview With the Incomparable Nikki Giovanni". Interview with Matthew Lynch, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

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• The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

  Max Lerner

  Life, Motivational, Broken Heart

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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• I'd forgotten how much feelings hurt.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Hurt, Feelings, Forgotten

  Elizabeth Scott (2009). “Living Dead Girl”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• Forgiveness isn’t my best thing. Easier staying pissed. But I’m tired of being pissed all the time. Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that can never be fixed because it is an indelible part of the past.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Hurt, Tired, Past

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.537, Simon and Schuster

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• If you have to ask, you've never been in love. More than that, you've never had your feelings hurt by the one you want to trust and cherish you most of all.

  Cameron Dokey

  Hurt, Feelings, Want

  Cameron Dokey (2011). “Golden”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Hurt, Funny Things, Heartache

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• being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Hurt, Heart, Feelings

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Hit List”, p.122, Hachette UK

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• It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.

  Thomas M. Disch

  Hurt, Errors, Squirrels

  Thomas M. Disch (1986). “The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances”, Doubleday Books for Young Readers

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• It's a no win situation. It's a mug's game. The religions have contrived to make it impossible to disagree with them critically without being rude. They play the hurt feelings card at every opportunity.

  Daniel Dennett

  Hurt, Winning, Opportunity

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• Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.

  Perry Farrell

  Sad, Hurt, Sometimes

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• The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may give buoyancy to the soul. In many families, there are hurt feelings and a reluctance to forgive. It doesn’t really matter what the issue was. It cannot and should not be left to injure. Blame keeps wounds open. Only forgiveness heals. George Herbert, an early 17th-century poet, wrote these lines: ‘He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven, for everyone has need of forgiveness.’

  Thomas S. Monson

  Strong, Hurt, Bridges

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• In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.

  Phil Lesh

  Hurt, People, Fans

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

  Peter Benchley

  Hurt, Sea, Jellyfish

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• The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art

  Stephen Stills

  Art, Hurt, People

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• There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.

  Tillie Olsen

  Hurt, Cuss Words

  Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press

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• I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

  Zane Grey

  Depressing, Hurt, Used

  Zane Grey, Lina Elise Grey, Candace C. Kant (2008). “Dolly & Zane Grey: Letters from a Marriage”, p.178, University of Nevada Press

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• I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Hurt, Winning, Ability

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• Perhaps my information hurt the Soviet Union more than it helped. I have no idea. It was not something I ever discussed with the KGB officers that I was dealing with.

  Aldrich Ames

  Hurt, Ideas, Kgb

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• Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

  Ogden Nash

  Hurt, Commitment, Political

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