Hurt Quotes - Page 28

• When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed. His leg still hurt, it was still dark, he was still alone and the self-pity had accomplished nothing.

  Gary Paulsen

  Dark, Self, Done

  Gary Paulsen (2009). “Hatchet”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Lydia: Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Strange, Remember

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• I don't want him hurt because he got out of hand with me." "Yet you would have shot him." I shrugged. "I never said I was consistent, just serious.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Hands, Want, Serious

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2002). “Bloody Bones: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.202, Penguin

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• And we'd look at each other the way you do when you see someone on the street you think you recognize, but not quite. Someone you wish with all your heart were there but who is actually just a stranger. And you feel a kind of deep longing that hurts like a huge gash and your inability to fix it leaves you frustrated and angry and bone-deep lonely.

  Michele Jaffe

  Lonely, Heart, Thinking

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• ...here also forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that there was really no cheating or bullying. But if that were so, there would be nothing to forgive. (This doesn't mean that you must necessarily believe his next promise. It does mean that you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart - every wish to humiliate or hurt him or to pay him out.)

  C. S. Lewis

  Bullying, Cheating, Believe

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• 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

  Blessing, Love Is, Gone

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.257, Penguin

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• I couldn't joke about the person who'd saved me from facing absolute heartbreak at home, who fed my family boxes of sweets, who ran to me worried that i was hurt if I asked for him. A month ago, I had looked at the TV and seen a stiff, distant, boring person-someone I couldn't imagine anyone loving. And while he wasn't anything close to the person I did love, he was worthy of having someone to love in his life.

  Kiera Cass

  Sweet, Home, Loving Life

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• Zealots are like one track-pony. Don't get in their way without expecting to get hurt.

  Patricia Briggs

  Track, Ponies, Way

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• It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Needs, Innocent, Frightened

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.568, Open Road Media

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• Sin is a matter of opinion. Sins are only sins if you are hurting other people.

  Corey Taylor

  People, Matter, Opinion

  Corey Taylor (2011). “Seven Deadly Sins”, p.11, Random House

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• If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Love, Broken Heart, Pain

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• 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

  People, Watches, Care

  Corey Taylor (2012). “Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good”, p.116, Da Capo Press

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• We speak with one voice,” Walt said. “Especially on this matter. No one hurts Sadie Kane.

  Rick Riordan

  Voice, Matter, Speak

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• In the Duat, Anubis looked as he always had, with his tousled dark hair and lovely brown eyes, but I’d never seen him filled with such rage. I realized that anyone who dared to hurt me would suffer his full wrath, and Walt wasn’t going to hold him back.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Dark, Wrath

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• Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.

  Kristin Hannah

  Girl, Weather, Broken

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Family Matters 4-Book Bundle: Angel Falls, Between Sisters, The Things We Do for Love, Magic Hour”, p.1279, Ballantine Books

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• Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852

  Florence Nightingale

  Offending, Long, People

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• Keep your relationships brief. Don’t let them in. Once they’re inside they have more potential to hurt you. Comfort yourself. You can live with the anguish as long as it only involves yourself. As long as there is no hope.

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Long, Comfort, No Hope

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• I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body.

  Veronica Roth

  Betrayal, Body, Betrayed

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• The hurt affects your ability to go forward.

  Deb Caletti

  Ability

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• It's what you do to yourself when you go mad with rage. You have no idea how much you can hurt yourself with your own strength.

  Lian Hearn

  Ideas, Mad, Rage

  Lian Hearn (2008). “Across the Nightingale Floor: Tales of the Otori”, p.242, Pan Macmillan

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• The truth is what hurts

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Truth Is

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• You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Thinking, Willing, Ifs

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• If I did something to hurt Frankie and she said that I was never getting near her heart again, I’d spent the rest of my life trying anyway. That’s the difference between you and me, Tom. I’d go back to the moment it all fell apart and I’d start there.

  Melina Marchetta

  Heart, Differences, Trying

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• As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Journey, Soul, May

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “The Road to Grace”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Fortunately, God made all varieties of people with a wide variety of interests and abilities. He has called people of every race and color who have been hurt by life in every manner imaginable. Even the scars of past abuse and injury can be the means of bringing healing to another. What wonderful opportunities to make disciples!

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Leadership, Mean, Healing

  Charles R. Swindoll (2008). “Walk with Jesus: A Journey to the Cross and Beyond”, p.57, Thomas Nelson Inc

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