Hurt Quotes - Page 6

• I remember things like that...A lifetimes accredidation of unkindness, all of those little longering hurts that I carried around like stones sewn into my pockets.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Littles, Pockets, Stones

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• I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but this was something else. This was the kind of hurt that could only be inflicted by someone you loved, who you thought loved you. It was sort of like being stabbed from the inside out.

  Kami Garcia

  Heartbreak, Mad, Lovers

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• Goodbys always make my throat hurt... I need more hellos.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Needs, Throat

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• Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless black and at best, a happiness so bright that it hurts the eyes to see, coming and going on some unseen projector perpetually turned by an invisible hand. One, then another. The hollow click of the shutter. Now stop. Freeze this frame. Pluck it down and hold it close and be damned by what you see. Henri always said: the price of a memory is the memory if the sorrow it brings.

  Pittacus Lore

  Memories, Eye, Hands

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• It was a strange thing, this feeling of empathy. He'd never experienced it before. He realized that what hurt this woman hurt him as well, that what made her bleed caused a hemorrhage of pain within his soul.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Pain, Empathy, Soul

  Elizabeth Hoyt (2010). “Wicked Intentions: Number 1 in series”, p.186, Hachette UK

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• The fact is, if you have a solid healthcare plan, you still don't have dental. If you have dental, you might not have vision. And if your back hurts, well, a chiropractor's not covered in that. It's a hassle. You have to go seek out on your own and look for the best plan you can afford, and a lot of times what people can afford is not what they need, and it creates lot of leeway for people to slip through the cracks.

  Mr. Lif

  People, Vision, Healthcare

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• That which hurts, also instructs.

  Benjamin Franklin

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• Will’s voice dropped. “Everyone makes mistakes, Jem.” “Yes,” said Jem. “You just make more of them than most people.” “I —” “You hurt everyone,” said Jem. “Everyone whose life you touch.” “Not you,” Will whispered. “I hurt everyone but you. I never meant to hurt you.” Jem put his hands up, pressing his palms against his eyes. “Will —” “You can’t never forgive me,” Will said in disbelief, hearing the panic tinging his own voice. “I’d be —” “Alone?” Jem lowered his hand, but he was smiling now, crookedly. “And whose fault is that?

  Cassandra Clare

  Mistake, Eye, Hands

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• Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

  Holly Black

  Skins, Peeling, Feels

  Holly Black (2010). “White Cat”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.

  Holly Black

  Voice, Break

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.

  Gregory Maguire

  Responsibility, Past, Way

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• We women make choices for others, not for ourselves, and when we are mothers, we...bear what we must for our children. You will protect them. It will hurt you; it will hurt them. Your job is to hide that your heart is breaking and do what they need you to do.

  Kristin Hannah

  Mother, Jobs, Children

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front”, p.176, St. Martin's Griffin

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• This is how you communicate with a fellow intelligence: You hurt it, you keep on hurting it, until you can distinguish the speech from the screams.

  Peter Watts

  Speech, Scream, Communicate

  Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.261, Macmillan

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• Michael, don’t,” Eve said. “He won’t hurt us.” Andeveryone rolled their eyes at that. Even Jason, which was borderline hilarious.

  Rachel Caine

  Eye, Jason, Said

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• I have no affinity for animals. I don’t hate animals and I would never hurt an animal; I just don’t actively care about them. When a coworker shows me cute pictures of her dog, I struggle to respond correctly, like an autistic person who has been taught to recognize human emotions from flash cards. In short, I am the worst.

  Tina Fey

  Cute, Dog, Hate

  Tina Fey (2011). “Bossypants”, p.134, Hachette UK

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• Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Hurt Me

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• He raised his hand in a peaceful gesture. "You need to relax a bit, dove. Like Mouse over there. You trust me, don't you, Mouse?" "Nope!" "Ahhh, I'm hurt. Nobody likes me.

  Ilona Andrews

  Hands, Peaceful, Relax

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.47, Penguin

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• I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music--notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Blue, Play, Guilt

  Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “Revolution”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Sometimes we have to face the things that hurt us most. Maybe you won’t heal till you do. You haven’t yet.” They both knew that was true. “You can’t move ahead until you bury the past.

  Danielle Steel

  Moving, Past, Faces

  Danielle Steel (2009). “Southern Lights”, p.219, Random House

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• Nighttime is different. Things are otherwise when the world is black. Insecurities and hurts, anxieties and fears grow teeth at night. p493

  Kate Morton

  Night, Anxiety, Insecurity

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• Henry was learning that time apart has a way of creating distance- more than mountains and time zone separating them. Real distance, the kind that makes you ache and stop wondering. Longing so bad that it begins to hurt to care so much.

  Jamie Ford

  Missing Someone, Real, Distance

  Jamie Ford (2011). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet”, p.222, Allison & Busby

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• Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.

  Veronica Roth

  Sad, Mother, Missing Someone

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• I'm sorry that you're still hurting.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Sorry, Stills, I'm Sorry

  Elizabeth Chandler (2011). “Evercrossed”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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