It Hurts Quotes - Page 4

• I Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I, only I And none of this can I say Because feeling is like the sky - Seen, nothing in it to see.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hurt, Heart, Law

  Fernando Pessoa (1974). “Selected Poems”

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• Poor people have few choices in life, and most of the time you don't think too much about it. You get the best you can and do without when necessary, and hope to God you won't be wiped out by something you can't control. But there are moments it hurts, where there is something you want in the very marrow of your bones and you know there is no way you can have it.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hurt, Thinking, People

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: Number 1 in series”, p.95, Hachette UK

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• My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Hurt, Heart, Knives

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• She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be no remedy

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hurt, Pain, Desire

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• Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

  Anne Lamott

  Hurt, Teenager, Tough

  Anne Lamott (2010). “Imperfect Birds: A Novel”, p.12, Penguin

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• The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Hurt, Taught, Deceiving

  Mahmoud Darwish (2012). “Journal of an Ordinary Grief”, p.82, Archipelago

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• [Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.

  Anne Carson

  Mother, Hurt, Government

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• I feel the greatest destroyer of peace today is 'Abortion', because it is a war against the child... A direct killing of the innocent child, 'Murder' by the mother herself... And if we can accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another? How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with love... And we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Hurt, Children

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• Grace: The idea was immediately unbearable, only because I wanted it to be true so badly it hurt

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Hurt, Ideas, Grace

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.39, Scholastic Inc.

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• "I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting" ... "But that's not all people laugh at." "Isn't it? Perhaps I don't grok all its fullness yet. But find me something that really makes you laugh sweetheart... a joke, or anything else- but something that gave you a a real belly laugh, not a smile. Then we'll see if there isn't a wrongness wasn't there." He thought. "I grok when apes learn to laugh, they'll be people."

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hurt, Real, People

  "Stranger in a Strange Land". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1961.

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• Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Life Sucks, Tipping

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Keeping the Moon”, p.87, Penguin

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• It begins in the heart...and it hurts when it's true. It only hurts because it's true.

  Steven Morrissey

  Hurt, Heart

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• My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn't be alive anymore with so much pain, and at the same time I knew I was alive because it hurt. I was afraid that death would find its way into me through this open knee and I quickly covered my knee with my hands.

  Herta Muller

  Hurt, Pain, Hands

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• I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don't you dare tell me I don't. Don't you ever say it again!

  Jenny Downham

  Hurt, Love You, Dare

  Jenny Downham (2012). “Now is Good (Also published as Before I Die)”, p.261, Random House

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• He looks trapped, helpless and furious, and that’s a feeling I know too well. Know how much it hurts. Know how it holds you down, how every day there are a thousand little ways to see there is nothing you can do to change who or what you are.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Hurt, Feelings, Looks

  Elizabeth Scott (2011). “Between Here and Forever”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are. All we can say is that this is a good deed, because it helps someone or that's an evil one because it hurts them. People are too complicated to have simple labels.

  Philip Pullman

  Hurt, Believe, Simple

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• He moved toward her and cupped her face in his hands. "You are so beautiful that sometimes it hurts just to look at you. Your eyes are a thousand shades of brown and gold with hints of blue and green." He touched her cheekbones with thumbs. "Your freckles are like the girl-next-door fantasy brought to life. Your mouth is sexy and soft and when you smile, the world seems like a better place. Swear you'll never change anything. Swear it.

  Susan Mallery

  Beautiful, Girl, Sexy

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• Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather have cut that hand off than take it back at that moment. If it would help Nix through this, he'd give her a pair of pliers and a vise so she could do a proper job.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Crush, Hurt, Jobs

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes the world is so beautiful it hurts.

  Tom Spanbauer

  Beautiful, Hurt, World

  Tom Spanbauer (2007). “Now Is the Hour”, p.419, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart - so hard, it hurt me. A hundred times I almost rose, almost went in to her; a hundred times I thought, Go to her! Why are you waiting? Go back to her side! But every time, I thought of what would happen if I did. I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.

  Sarah Waters

  Hurt, Lying, Heart

  Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.153, Penguin

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• Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on

  Homer

  Hurt, Past, Doe

  Homer (2011). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.419, University of Chicago Press

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• Getting angry over something that won't change is like seeing what happens if you hit your hand with a hammer over and over again, and being surprised each time when it hurts. So you might as well stop doing it.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Hurt, Hands, Hammers

  Mercedes Lackey (2011). “Beauty and the Werewolf”, p.159, LUNA

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• Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hurt, Lying, Details

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Selections from Fragile Things, Volume Three: 5 Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• She thumped him again. He looked startled, then caught her flying fist in his hand and gently pried her fingers open. Very carefully he pressed a kiss into the exact center of her palm. 'Savannah? Were you trying to hit me?' 'I didn't hit you--twice, you scum. You didn't even notice the first time.' She sounded very irritated with him. For some reason it made him want to smile. 'I apologize, mon amour. Next time, I promise I will notice when you strike me.' The hard edge to his mouth softened into a semblance of a smile. 'I will even go so far as to pretend that it hurts, if you wish it.

  Christine Feehan

  Hurt, Kissing, Hands

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• She didn't know how much she'd been hoping that he still loved her, until she felt how much it hurt to realize he didn't.

  Holly Black

  Hurt, Realizing, Stills

  Holly Black (2012). “Ironside”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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