Hurt Quotes - Page 36

• We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

  Sarah Dessen

  People, Kind, Ends

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.237, Penguin UK

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• We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Forgiveness, Revenge, People

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• Love with someone else, an actual person, was another matter. People got hurt doing that. People cried and wrapped their arms around themselves and rocked with loss. Loving words got turned to fierce, sharp, whip-cracks of anger that lefft permanent marks. At the least, it disappointed you. At most, it damaged you.

  Deb Caletti

  Loss, People, Cracks

  Deb Caletti (2013). “Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

  Edward St Aubyn

  Pain, Bigs, Ifs

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• This is new to us, you know? Your mother's sorry. She's sorry that she hurt your feelings, and she wants you to invite your girlfriend over for dinner." "So that she can make her feel bad and weird?" "Well she is kind of weird, isn't she?" Park didn't have the energy to be angry. He sighed and let his head fall back on the chair. His dad kept talking. "Isn't that why you like her?

  Rainbow Rowell

  Mother, Girlfriend, Sorry

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• To this day, she’s still sad. Because there’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I’m just saying that I took the pain that was inside of her at that moment and made it my own. And it didn’t hurt me at all.

  Tom Perrotta

  Pain, Mind, Body

  "The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.

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• Vera said: 'Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?' So I told her why: Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. Because if I tell the story, it doesn't hurt as much. Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it.

  Nora Ephron

  Sorry, Laughing, Stories

  "Heartburn". Book by Nora Ephron, 1983.

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• In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

  Richard Rohr

  People, Half

  Richard Rohr (2013). “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life -- A Companion Journal”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons

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• The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

  Bell Hooks

  Pain, Loss, Practice

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• I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known.

  Sarah Dessen

  Eyebrows, Scar, Remember

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.181, Penguin

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• She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

  Stephen King

  Pain

  Stephen King (2008). “The Shining”, p.72, Anchor

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• She wants to be polite and not hurt your feelings, so she's not going to laugh right now. But inside, inside she's laughing.

  Derek Landy

  Laughing, Feelings, Want

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• I've thrown enough punches in my life to know when someone is hurting.

  Ally Carter

  Enough, Thrown, Knows

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• You’ve read the books?” “I’ve seen the movies.” Cath rolled her eyes so hard, it hurt. (Actually.) (Maybe because she was still on the edge of tears. On the edge, period.) “So you haven’t read the books.” “I’m not really a book person.” “That might be the most idiotic thing you’ve ever said to me

  Rainbow Rowell

  Book, Eye, Tears

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Carry On”, p.395, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Our lives are marked and shaped by our regrets. Things we all want to take back and can’t. In a perfect world, we would never hurt the ones we love or cause hurt to befall them. But the world isn’t perfect and neither are we.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Regret, Perfect, World

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Styxx”, p.905, Macmillan

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• Hold her for me. Hold her tight. Don't let her be lonely. Don't let her hurt. Please.

  Abbi Glines

  Lonely, Please

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Simple Perfection: A Novel”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• The Way It Is There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread. But it is hard for others to see. While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old. Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding. You don’t ever let go of the thread. ~ William Stafford ~

  William Stafford

  Letting Go, People, Suffering

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• Most of all, I like the fact that you share yourself with me. That I don't have to prove my strength to you. I don't have to hurt or be hurt to lie with you." - Vane

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lying, Facts, Share

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• I think when we make choices—for each choice is individual of the choices we have made before—we must examine not only our reasons for making them but what result they will have, and whether good people will be hurt by our decisions.

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, People, Choices

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1203, Simon and Schuster

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• How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?

  Veronica Roth

  Strong, Broken, Kind

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• Arms wrapped around his neck, she kissed his temple. "I'm sorry I scared you." It wasn't the done thing for an archangel to admit fear, but he was hers, and she'd hurt him without meaning to; it was up to her to fix her mistake. His wings shifted, but he didn't extricate their bodies. "I didn't know fear until you, Elena. Use the power wisely.

  Nalini Singh

  Sorry, Mistake, Wings

  Nalini Singh (2013). “Archangel's Legion”, p.34, Penguin

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• Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Life, Spring, Healing

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• That's what it felt like - that if I let a little of the hurt out, it would keep pouring out until I was a deflated balloon of a person, with a big monster of hurt in front of me.

  David Levithan

  Monsters, Pouring, Littles

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.35, Egmont UK

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• Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee.

  Ally Carter

  Hitting, Fists, Belief

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• criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

  Dale Carnegie

  Pride, Criticism, Resentment

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