Hurt Quotes - Page 30

• I was happy. I loved the night, I loved t so much it almost hurt. In the night everything seemed possible. I wasn't sleepy at all.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Night, Sleepy

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• Because what if I got to know you and you turned out to be just like they said? What if you weren’t the person I hoped you were? That, more than anything, would have hurt the most.

  Jay Asher

  What If, Said, Persons

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.108, Penguin

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• I wanted to tell you everything. And that hurt because some things were too scary. Some things even I didn’t understand. How could I tell someone—someone I was really talking to for the first time—everything I was thinking? I couldn’t. It was too soon.

  Jay Asher

  Thinking, Talking, Scary

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.109, Penguin

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• Truth doesn't have to be liked. It only has to be spoken. Speak it out. The truth may hurt you, but it will set you free.

  Amish Tripathi

  May, Amish, Speak

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• Then he kissed her. It was a very long time before he let her go. When he did, she looked up at him, hurt and bewilderment on her face. 'Why did you stop?' asked Tessa. 'I thought you might want to breathe,' said Guy carefully. 'Breathe?'said Tessa , shocked. 'I don’t need to breathe  when I’m with you.'

  Eva Ibbotson

  Long, Guy, Needs

  "Magic Flutes".

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• He closed his eyes and let out a jagged breath. "Okay." He settled between my legs holding himself over me. "I've never been with a virgin, Eva. I'm going to try real hard not to hurt you." "Will it hurt you?" I asked, thinking about his pained expression when he'd said I was too tight. He smiled, "It's going to be the closest to heaven I'll ever get, baby.

  Abbi Glines

  Baby, Real, Eye

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• We've got a problem!" I shouted. "No, I heard that. I mean, what's the problem now?" "I have the solution!" Jack interrupted. "What?" I sat up, all ears. "Bells!" "What?" Lend and I asked at the same time. "Get her a kitty collar with bells on it. That way you can hear her coming and get someplace where you won't be hurt by collapsing immediately into sleep.

  Kiersten White

  Mean, Sleep, Ears

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• Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so that you might never be alone in your hurt and sorrow. He had no real fellowship so that fellowship might be yours, this moment. This alone is enough cause for great gratitude!

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Gratitude, Jesus, Real

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• Hurt tends to drown out sorry.

  John Green

  Sorry

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.166, Penguin

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• Life isn't perfect. It's not supposed to be. We all make mistakes. You bash your head against the wall and you get hurt, but you walk away and make the best of it. And that's what makes it life, Brenna, not perfection. You'll never find happiness if you only expect to find a perfect life. Happiness is something we reach for while we try to learn from our disappointments.

  Karen White

  Wall, Disappointment, Mistake

  Karen White (2007). “Learning to Breathe”, p.255, Penguin

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• And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.

  Patrick Ness

  It Hurts, Okay, Stills

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• Knowing he was suffering pained me. That’s the way love tangles you up. I couldn’t stop loving him, and couldn’t shut off the feelings of wanting to care for him— but I also didn’t have to run to answer his letters. I was hurting, too, and no one was running to me.

  Paula McLain

  Running, Knowing, Feelings

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.304, Ballantine Books

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• I knew that I could hate him all I wanted for the way he was hurting me, but I couldn’t ever stop loving him, absolutely, for what he was.

  Paula McLain

  Hate, Way, Loving Him

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• I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.

  Tana French

  Fall, Thinking, Negativity

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• I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but worse. I'm tired. I'm hurt. I'm sad. I feel used.

  Marsha Norman

  Tired, Thinking, Bored

  Marsha Norman (1983). “'Night, Mother”, p.22, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.

  Philip Pullman

  Mind, Trying, Relax

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• I had to stop linking every single thing that happened to me with Kennedy. Realization dawned then, that he was still my default. Over the past three years, we’d become each other’s habit. And though he’d broken his habit of me when he walked away, I’d not broken my habit of him. I was still tethering him to my present, to my future. The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I began to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.

  Tammara Webber

  Past, Years, Broken

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• The doorknob twisted. “I’m coming with you.” I ran over and held it shut. “No, you are so not. We can’t carry your unconscious body around the Center. Besides, I need you here. If something goes wrong, I can’t handle you getting hurt.” “Wait, so it’s okay if I get hurt?” Jack asked. “Yes,” I snapped at the same time as Lend and Arianna. “As long as you’re sure, then,” Jack muttered.

  Kiersten White

  Long, Waiting, Needs

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• I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.

  Haruki Murakami

  Want, Exhausted, Cry

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.245, Random House

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• Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Pain, Reality

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Sep 10, 2014

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• I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don’t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there.

  Charles Bukowski

  Spiritual, Giving Up, Tired

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Hollywood”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my heart, yes, even in my most helpless, futile, fruitless moments. The very cracks and empty crannies of my life, my perplexities and hurts and botched-up jobs, He wants to fill with Himself, His joy, His life...He urges me to learn of Him: 'I am gentle and humble in heart.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Jobs, Heart, Humble

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• Forgiving is not about forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Forgiving

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• He was the sort of guy who took a lot without giving her anything back The more he hurt her the more desperately she loved him. Life's strange. Sometimes things happen almost as if we're punishing ourselves for some fault that we can't really identify.

  Guillaume Musso

  Giving, Guy, Faults

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• To be left behind... or to leave behind. I wonder which hurts more.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Wonder, Left Behind, Behinds

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