„If I know what love is, it is because of you.“
— Hermann Hesse, book Narcissus and Goldmund
Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
Hurtful quotes
A collection of quotes on the topic of sad quotes, hurtful, hurt, heartbreaking.
Best hurtful quotes
„It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.“
— Henry Rollins American singer-songwriter 1961
Variant: It is sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
„Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship—never.“
— Charles Caleb Colton British priest and writer 1777 - 1832
Vol. II; LXXXIII
Lacon
„There are years that ask questions and years that answer.“
— Zora Neale Hurston, book Their Eyes Were Watching God
Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Ch. 3, p. 21.
„One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.“
— John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980
„Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.“
— Joseph Campbell American mythologist, writer and lecturer 1904 - 1987
Variant: Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
„Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.“
— Albert Camus French author and journalist 1913 - 1960
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— Ernest Hemingway, book Men Without Women
Disputed
Source: Claimed to be from Men Without Women, but it does not appear in that work. May have originated in a 2011 blogpost by Marc Chernoff entitled 30 things to stop doing to yourself http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/12/11/30-things-to-stop-doing-to-yourself/.
„Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.“
— Corrie ten Boom Dutch resistance hero and writer 1892 - 1983
„From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw —“
— Edgar Allan Poe American author, poet, editor and literary critic 1809 - 1849
" Alone http://gothlupin.tripod.com/valone.html", l. 1-8 (written 1829, published 1875).
Context: From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were — I have not seen
As others saw — I could not bring
My passions from a common spring —
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow — I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone —
And all I lov'd — I lov'd alone
— James Baldwin, book The Fire Next Time
"Me and My House" in Harper's (November 1955); republished in Notes of a Native Son (1955)
Source: The Fire Next Time
„I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.“
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austrian Romantic composer 1756 - 1791
Unsourced in Musician's Little Book of Wisdom (1996) by Scott E. Power, Quote 416.
Misattributed
„If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.“
— Jean Paul Sartre French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary cri… 1905 - 1980
„Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.“
— Khalil Gibran, book The Prophet
The Prophet (1923)
„There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.“
— Tennessee Williams American playwright 1911 - 1983
„Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.“
— Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910
„For it is in giving that we receive.“
— Francis of Assisi Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order 1182 - 1226
„It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.“
— Lou Holtz American college football coach, professional football coach, television sports announcer 1937
„I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.“
— Margaret Fuller American feminist, poet, author, and activist 1810 - 1850
„The more you love, the more you suffer“
— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890
„The world is in your hands, now use it.“
— Phil Collins English musician, songwriter and actor 1951
"Dance Into the Light"
„There is, in the end, the letting go.“
— Marya Hornbacher, book Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
„Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.“
— Jodi Picoult, book Second Glance
Source: Second Glance
„They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.“
— Gabrielle Zevin, book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Variant: Have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
„Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.“
— David Foster Wallace, book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest
„Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.“
— Marilyn Monroe American actress, model, and singer 1926 - 1962
Source: My Story
— John Steinbeck, book The Grapes of Wrath
Variant: If you're in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help–the only ones.
Source: The Grapes of Wrath
— Cheryl Strayed, book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
„I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.“
— Haruki Murakami, book 1Q84
IQ84 (2009-2010)
Source: 1Q84
„Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.“
— Margaret Mitchell American author and journalist 1900 - 1949
„I can be hurt, she said, only by people I respect.“
— Mary Balogh Welsh-Canadian novelist 1944
Source: Then Comes Seduction
„sometimes it's hard to know
what to
do.“
— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
„People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.“
— Emily Dickinson American poet 1830 - 1886
„Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories.“
— Melina Marchetta Australian teen writer 1965
Source: Quintana of Charyn
„Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.“
— Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Ancient Rome 121 - 180
Source: The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
„But what is life if you don't live it?“
— James Patterson, book Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
Source: Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
„Sharp are the arrows of a broken heart.“
— Cassandra Clare, book City of Heavenly Fire
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
„When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.“
— Winston S. Churchill Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1874 - 1965
— Fannie Flagg American actress, comedian and author 1944
Source: The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion
„Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger. Travel too far that road and the way is lost.“
— Terry Brooks, book The Elfstones of Shannara
Source: The Elfstones of Shannara
„The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.“
— Nicholas Sparks American writer and novelist 1965
„The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.“
— Eudora Welty American author 1909 - 2001
„The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.“
— Ashleigh Brilliant American author and cartoonist 1933
— Jonathan Safran Foer, book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Variant: There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him, so I buried them, and let them hurt me. (p. 181)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 181
„Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery“
— Judith McNaught American writer 1944
Source: Paradise
„… when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.“
— Jane Austen, book Persuasion
Source: Persuasion
„You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.“
— Fannie Flagg, book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Variant: You know, a heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beating just the same.
Source: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
„A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.“
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American poet 1807 - 1882
Table-Talk (1857)
„A truth that no one knows is still the truth.“
— Sharon Shinn American science fiction writer 1957
Source: Jenna Starborn
„Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.“
— Cecelia Ahern, book Thanks for the Memories
Source: Thanks for the Memories
„The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.“
— Harriet Beecher Stowe Abolitionist, author 1811 - 1896
Source: Little Foxes (1865), Ch. 3.
Source: Little Foxes: Or, the Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness
„What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.“
— Elie Wiesel, book Night
In an interview with Carol Rittner and Sandra Meyers in Courage To Care - Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust, NYU Press, 1986, p. 2. Also quoted by Yad Vashem http://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/about-the-program.html and Nicholas Kristoff in The Silence of the Bystanders https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/opinion/the-silence-of-bystanders.html, New York Times (March 19, 2006).
Source: Night
„Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.“
— George Eliot, book Adam Bede
Source: Adam Bede (1859)
„It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.“
— Lena Horne American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer 1917 - 2010
Variant: 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.“
— Graham Greene, book The End of the Affair
Source: The End of the Affair
„When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.“
— Louise Penny, book A Fatal Grace
Source: A Fatal Grace
— Greg Behrendt American comedian 1963
Source: It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy
„And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche, book Ecce homo
"Why I Am So Wise", 6
Ecce Homo (1888)
„In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.“
— Wayne W. Dyer American writer 1940 - 2015
„Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.“
— Siri Hustvedt novelist, essayist, poet 1955
Source: The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves
„It's always funny until someone gets hurt.
Then it's just hilarious.“
— Bill Hicks American comedian 1961 - 1994
„Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.“
— Lance Armstrong, book Every Second Counts
Source: Every Second Counts
„Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.“
— Vera Nazarian American writer 1966
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
— Angelina Jolie American actress, film director, and screenwriter 1975
Variant: I don't believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never intentionally hurt another person, and don't judge people in your life. I think you should live completely free...
— Haruki Murakami, book What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Variant: The fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
„We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962
„If you want me again look for me under your boot soles.“
— Walt Whitman, book Fulles d'herba
Source: Leaves of Grass
— Harry Crews Novelist, short story writer, essayist 1935 - 2012
„no expectations, no disappointments!“
— Eric Jerome Dickey American author 1961
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