Quotes about harm

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“Never get involved. That's my motto. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.”

“I think I needed to be really hurt on the outside so the hurt on the inside would realize that it wasn’t on its own and that it had to come out.”

“He recognized and accepted this strange new feeling: that he would rather be hurt himself than hurt Alec.”

“Because they are mean is no reason why I should be. I hate such things, and though I think I've a right to be hurt, I don't intend to show it. (Amy March)”

“Far too many people opened their hearts and lives at the drop of a hat. Why give someone that power over you? Why endow them with the ability to hurt you that much? Let someone in and you were asking for an emotional kicking some day.”

“Then she cried without tears, which is said to hurt even more like dry labor.”

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”

“He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.”

“I am really in love with Sam, and it hurts very much.”

“So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.”

“But then I didn't run from my challenges. I met them straight on and bashed my head against them, until it left me hurt, bloody, and dazed.”

“Ow!" said Horace as the Ranger's fingers probed and poked around the bruise.
Did that hurt?" Halt asked, and Horace looked at him with exasperation.
Of course it did," he said sharply. "That's why I said 'ow!”

“I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife
inside
because there was no alternative except to hide as long
as possible---
not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance:
trying to connect.”

“She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so… I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.”

“He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.”

“tiny: maybe there's something you're afraid to say, or someone you're afraid to love, or somewhere you're afraid to go. it's gonna hurt. it's gonna hurt because it matters.”

“I was happy. I loved the night, I loved t so much it almost hurt. In the night everything seemed possible. I wasn't sleepy at all.”

“Never miss an opportunity to show your love, especially to those close to you, because we are always at our most cautious with them for fear of being hurt.”

“When you're alive, people can hurt you. It's easier to crawl into a bone cage or a snowdrift of confusion. It's easier to lock everybody out.

But it's a lie.”

“She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.”

“I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal…”

“Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.”

“Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. "I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts!”

“I know about forgiving people and loving them anyway, even after they hurt you.”

“Good girls don't hurt other people's feelings. Good girls are not overly aggressive, competitive, or boastful. Good girls please others. But what good girls are good for is another question.”

“My mind struggled to formulate a coherent though, any thought. I opened my mouth. "Your pajamas have Eeyore on them."

"I like Eeyore. He's sensible. A sober outlook on life never hurt anyone.”

“It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.”

“If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.”

“She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.”

“Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt”

“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.”

“The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.”

“Women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they’re not being truthful, more often than not it’s because they think truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn’t mean they don’t love you.”

“Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.”

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

“You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.”

“Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you…. But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces.”

“I hurt with you. I bled with you - not only because we're bonded but because of the love I have for you. -- Eric Northman”

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

“I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.”

“When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.”

“This is a touch game. There are times when you've got to play hurt when you've got to block out the pain.”

“Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto”

“When you lose someone and it still hurts, that's when you know the love was real.”

“It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.”

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

“A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.”

“We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.”

“In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.”

“Fear can't hurt you," she said. "When it washes over you, give it no power. It's a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.”

“It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except "be there". I want to make him stop hurting, but I can't.”

“She grabbed his arm. "Let it be, son!" she cried. "That child ain't hurt!"
"Not hurt! You look into her eyes and tell me she ain't hurt!”

“Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.”

“Shame resilience is the ability to say, “This hurts. This is disappointing, maybe even devastating. But success and recognition and approval are not the values that drive me. My value is courage and I was just courageous. You can move on, shame.”

“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”

“How was I supposed to know that you let two little bears hurt you, Goldilocks?"
"Ah, yes, that mouth. I missed it. All mine now.”

“She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and then would wonder how she could have been hurt without knowing it.”

“1. Your heart starts hurting when you think about him.”

“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.”

“Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.”

“Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.”

“The humble Cumulus humilis - never hurt a soul.”

“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”

“Tyson! Thank the gods, Annabeth is hurt!"
"You thank the gods that she is hurt?" he asked, puzzled.”

“Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.”

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

“I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.”

“Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps us going. - Usagi/Sailor Moon”

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

“I wish I could take away your pain. I wish I could go back to when you were born and take you somewhere safe. Far away from all the people who’ve hurt you. (Kiara)
You’re doing that now. (Nykyrian)”

“I love everything about you that hurts.”

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

“Having a brain hurt so much sometimes.”

“Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain.”

“But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is ialways the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.”

“How wonderful to be alive," he thought. "But why does it always hurt?”

“Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.”

“The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.”

“Our lives are marked and shaped by our regrets. Things we all want to take back and can’t. In a perfect world, we would never hurt the ones we love or cause hurt to befall them. But the world isn’t perfect and neither are we.”

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

“Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.”

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

“Envy hurt exponentially more than heartbreak because your soul was torn in two, half soaring with happiness for another person, half mired in a well of selfpity
and pain.”

“An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.”

“Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.”

“Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.”

“I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop.”

“He can kill anything for need but he could not even hurt a feeling for pleasure.”

“And it was good just to hold her and touch the softness of her skin. He wanted to hold her hard, not to hurt her but to keep her safe, to show her that he was strong enough to protect her. Her beauty was like fire and strange music, and he loved her.”

“The time has come, everybody lie down so you won't get hurt when the sun bursts.”

“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.”

“But hurting ourselves to inflict pain on others is just another cry to be loved.”

“We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.”

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

“Aw you'd never hurt me. My face is too pretty. -Adrian Ivashkov”

“I don't want to hurt you but I will if I have too - Tally Youngblood”

“The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.”

“When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less."
"Unless you love them.”

“How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?”