Hurtful quotes

“Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”

“There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.”

“I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”

“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”

“Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.”

“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”

“From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw —”

“There is a sacredness in tears…. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.”

“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”

“One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”

“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.”

“It is us today. It will be you tomorrow.”

“Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ”

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend”

“There is, in the end, the letting go.”

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”

“being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.”

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.”

“For it is in giving that we receive.”

“You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.”

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.”

“You are -- your life, and nothing else.”

“Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.”

“Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.”

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”

“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.”

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”

“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.”

“Someday this pain will be useful to you”

“I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.”

“There is a reason why all things are as they are.”

“Warriors should suffer their pain silently.”

“Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.”

“Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.”

“Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.”

“I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.”

“My heart is breaking for a little love”

“And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.”

“no expectations, no disappointments!”

“It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.”

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”

“The will-to-live becomes the will-to-power.”

“The world is in your hands, now use it.”

“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”

“I am not, I will not be.
I have not, I will not have.”

“The opportunity of your life, it's you.”

“Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.”

“Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.”

“They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.”

“Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love”

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”

“Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.”

“Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.”

“Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.”

“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.”

“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”

“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”

“Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.”

“Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.”

“I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.”

“sometimes it's hard to know
what to
do.”

“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.”

“Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.”

“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.”

“But what is life if you don't live it?”

“Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.”

“You are what you are. Find a way to live with it.”

“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”

“Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger. Travel too far that road and the way is lost.”

“The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.”

“It's okay," I said soothingly. "You're just getting your stride back. Once you're up to full power, I'll go crack a rib or something so we can test it."
She groaned. "The horrible part is that I don't think you're joking.”

“The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.”

“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him, so I buried them, and let them hurt me.”

“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.”

“Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery”

“… when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”

“A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.”

“For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.”

“Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.”

“A truth that no one knows is still the truth.”

“Always seek less turbulent skies.
Hurt. Fly above it.
Betrayal. Fly above it.
Anger. Fly above it.
You are the one who is flying the plane.”

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

“What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.”

“Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.”

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

“I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.”

“You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.”

“I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.”

“When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.”

“In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.”

“It's always funny until someone gets hurt.

Then it's just hilarious.”

“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”

“Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.”