Hurt Quotes - Page 39

• Our greatest duty and our main responsibility is to help others. But please, if you can't help them, would you please not hurt them.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Helping Others, Duty

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• At the first kiss I felt something melt inside me that hurt in an exquisite way. All my longings, all my dreams and sweet anguish, all the secrets that slept deep within me came awake, everything was transformed and enchanted, and everything made sense.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love, Dream, Sweet

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• I recognize that by saying that I'm deeply sorry, it might not be enough and sufficient to address the pain and the hurt that I have caused you. Therefore, I want to ask for your forgiveness for my actions, and I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.

  Marion Jones

  Sorry, Pain, Heart

  Marion Jones (2010). “On the Right Track: From Olympic Downfall to Finding Forgiveness and the Strength to Overcome and Succeed”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It's my personal approach that creates the climate. It's my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a student's life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a student humanized or de-humanized.

  Haim Ginott

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• The best things in life can never be kept;
  They must be given away.
  A Smile, a Kiss, and Love
  
  If you are asking if I'd hurt you, the answer is never.
  If you are asking if i love u,the answer is forever.
  If you are asking if i want u,the answer is i do.
  If you are asking what i value most, the answer is YOU
  
  Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be.

  Robert Browning

  Girlfriend, Kissing, Things In Life

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• I do like to hit people-I like the explosion of power and energy, and the feeling that I am untouchable because I can hurt people. But I hate that part of myself, because it is the part of me that is the most broken

  Veronica Roth

  Hate, People, Broken

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• It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.

  Pope John Paul II

  Religious, Heart, Soul

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• I know I hurt you then But that was way back when.

  John Lennon

  Back When, Way, Knows

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• We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced blockhead who stands hectoring and blustering in our way of achievement.

  H. G. Wells

  War, Achievement, Want

  H.G. Wells (1921). “The Outline of History”

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• I'm calling for all responsible Americans to fight back and punish Pepsi for using a man who degrades women, who encourages substance abuse, and does all the things that hurt particularly the poor in our society.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Encouragement, Drinking, Rap

  "Bad rap forces Pepsi to drop Ludacris" by Claire Cozens, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2002.

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• I do smoke, but I don't go through all this trouble just because I want to make my drug of choice legal. It's about personal freedom. We should have the right in this country to do what we want, if we don't hurt anybody. Seventy-two million people in this country have smoked pot. Eighteen to 20 million in the last year. These people should not be treated as criminals.

  Woody Harrelson

  Weed, Country, Marijuana

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• Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

  Joan Rivers

  Fear, Grief, Grieving

  "Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes" by Readers Digest, (p. 87), 1997.

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• Grief is a solitary journey. No one but you knows how great the hurt is. No one but you can know the gaping hole left in your life when someone you know has died. And no one but you can mourn the silence that was once filled with laughter and song. It is the nature of love and of death to touch every person in a totally unique way. Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.

  Helen Steiner Rice

  Song, Laughter, Grief

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• I’m not a violent person, Sydney. Not at all. I’ll make love over war any day. But I swear, if they’d hurt you—” “They didn’t,” I said firmly. I refused to let him know how scared I’d been because I was afraid he might go after them. “I’m fine. You came to the rescue.” A smile played at his lips. “Something tells me you would’ve rescued yourself.” And like that, the smile vanished. “But spirit would’ve been a lot more effective than a branch.” “Your treejitsu was very effective.

  Richelle Mead

  War, Making Love, Branches

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• Nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth, so in a way one relishes the pain. If it didn't matter, it wouldn't matter.

  Julian Barnes

  Pain, Thinking, Matter

  "Julian Barnes: The sense of another ending". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2013.

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• If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Running, Risk, Matter

  Terry Tempest Williams (2012). “When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice”, p.15, Macmillan

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• I have to go," he said at last, getting to his feet. "I shouldn't even be here, but I cannot keep my self away from you. I worry about you in every waking moment. I love you, Luce. So much it hurts.

  Lauren Kate

  Love You, Self, Feet

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.502, Delacorte Press

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• There's a gentleness about April that made me ache. It seemed like I was always on the run, always working and chasing some goal or another, but April had a way of holding me still. And then I'd begin to hurt and yearn for something I couldn't describe, something I hadn't known yet. All I knew was the ache itself and the strange, sweet feeling it was.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Running, Sweet, Goal

  Elizabeth Chandler (1999). “I Do”, Bantam Books for Young Readers

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• And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain - the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending wracking waves of hurt through my limbs and head - but it was manageable. I could live through it. I didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I'd grown strong enough to bear it.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Strong, Pain, Loss

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• Gorgeous, glowing rays of light...This was what true beauty and goodness looked like-- a spectral, luminescent gathering of beings so pure it hurt to look directly at them, like the most glorious eclipse, or maybe Heaven itself.

  Lauren Kate

  Light, Glowing, Heaven

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• This was why I was here. This was why I would take whatever reception waited for me when I got back. Because, underneath all the anger and the sarcasm, Jacob was in pain. Right now, it was very clear in his eyes. I didn't know how to help him, but I knew I had to try. It was more than that I owed him. It was because his pain hurt me, too. Jacob had become a part of me, and there was no changing that now.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Pain, Eye, Sarcasm

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• Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Friendship, Fake People, Thinking

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Anne of Green Gables Collection: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of the Island, and More Anne Shirley Books”, p.439, Xist Publishing

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• When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from right across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.

  Denis Johnson

  Mother, Jesus, Children

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.84, Macmillan

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• Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

  Henri Nouwen

  Lonely, Pain, Mean

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier. You're at the bow of a boat on the Rainy River. You're twenty-one years old, you're scared, and there's a hard squeezing pressure in your chest. What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?

  Tim O'Brien

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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