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

Shirley Hazzard book The Transit of Venus

Source: The Transit of Venus

Love

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

Julius Lester (1939–2018) American author

Source: The Autobiography of God

Love

“I'm not really sure why. But… do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the betrayal hurt so much - pain, frustration, anger… and I still loved her. I still do.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Love, Pain, Thinking, Betrayal

“Some of your hurts you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of grief you endured
From evils which never arrived!”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Borrowing From the French http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=l&p=c&a=p&ID=20649&c=323 <br class="br">1860s, May-Day and Other Pieces (1867)

Evil

“I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?' I turn into him. 'Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

Feeling, Romantic

“To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt.”

Madonna (1958) American singer, songwriter, and actress

Love, Courage

“… there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Time

“I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.
“Love does not make you a fool.”
“He didn’t love me back.”
“That does not make you a fool, either.”
“Just tell me …” Her voice cracked. “When does it stop hurting?”
“Sometimes never.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: The Time Keeper

Love, Fools

“Do you think I'm pretty?
I think you're beautiful
Beautiful?
You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Beauty, Thinking, Beauty

“In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.”

Andy Stanley (1958) American Christian minister

Source: It Came from Within!: The Shocking Truth of What Lurks in the Heart

Feeling, Soul, Forgiveness, Decision

“Trust me?" I held my breath for her answer. She had every reason not to trust me. I'd been her kidnapper, her captor, yet I'd rather have died than hurt a single hair on her head.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

“hurt tends to drown out sorry.”

David Levithan book Will Grayson, Will Grayson

Source: Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.”

Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People

Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People

Sense, Personality

“The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.”

Susan Mallery (1950) American author

Source: Almost Perfect

Personality

“In dreams you don't need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all. Boundaries don't exist. So in dreams there are hardly ever collisions. Even if there are, they don't hurt. Reality is different. Reality bites. Reality, reality.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Dreams, Reality

“Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.”

Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor

Passion, Anger

“Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

The First Phone Call from Heaven

Question

“I think when we make choices—for
each choice is individual of the choices we have made before—we must examine not
only our reasons for making them but what result they will have, and whether good people will be hurt by our decisions.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Princess

Source: Clockwork Princess

People, Thinking, Decision

“A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Pain

“Sometimes it hurts to look at you,” I said. I loved that I could say that and he knew exactly what I meant.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: We'll Always Have Summer

Love

“I was right when I said I’d never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can’t ever do anything else except look back.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Heart

“I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers.”

Rodney Dangerfield (1921–2004) American actor and comedian

Time

“When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

People, Behavior, Feeling

“You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

“I thought you'd like it," he said, seeming hurt. "You look very pretty.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Abandon

“It hurts too much so I don't want to talk about it.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

“I miss him so badly it hurts.”

Suzanne Collins (1962) American television writer and novelist

“As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

Love, People, Hell

“It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except 'be there.' I just want to make him stop hurting, but I can't. So I just follow him around whenever he wants to show me his world.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

World

“You ever laughed so hard
nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute,
no matter what they tried to do to you?”

Virginia Euwer Wolff book Make Lemonade

Source: Make Lemonade

World

“Courtney came over to me and touched my cheek. I winced. It hurt.
You look like hell," Courtney said.
I shrugged.
She looked at Saint Dane, then back at me. "He looks worse." She smiled. "Awesome.”

D.J. MacHale The Soldiers of Halla

Source: The Soldiers of Halla

Smile, Hell

“Don’t you just hate nights like that, when you think over every mistake you’ve made, every hurt you’ve received, every bit of meanness you’ve dealt out? There’s no profit in it, no point to it, and you need sleep.”

Charlaine Harris Dead and Gone

Source: Dead and Gone

Hate, Thinking, Sleep, Night

“My leg hurts," the soldier whined.

"Of course it does," Halt told him. "I put an arrow through it. Did you expect it not to hurt?”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Lost Stories

“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.”

Reba McEntire (1955) American country music artist and actress

Sadness, Way, Light, Singing

“Don't hurt someone who cares about you like that. You're not the only person in the world who's ever been hurt. Don't be cruel. Don't go breaking someone else's heart in the hope that you'll feel better. Becaues you won't.”

Alison McGhee (1960) American novelist

Source: All Rivers Flow To The Sea

World, Hope, Feeling, Heart

“Because everything worth having hurts.”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

“Maybe… because for the first time… there was a chance I could keep him,” I say.
“So now that you've got me, what are you going to do with me?”
“Put you somewhere you can't get hurt.”
And when he kisses me, people in the room actually sigh.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

People, Kiss, Chance, Time

“I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Suicide, Help, Drawing, Cry

“Breakups hurt like a motherf*#ker, but they are not the end of the world. The pain is temporary, and if handled properly, they can even be life-changing.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy

Life, Pain, World, Change

“You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Source: The Joys of Love

“The thing I am most afraid of is love. When you say you love someone you are giving them license to hurt you.”

Dorothy Koomson (1971) British writer

Source: The Rose Petal Beach

Love

“I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.”

Nicholas Sparks book Message in a Bottle

Source: Message in a Bottle

Personality

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

pg 71
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body

Strong

“fear life but don't die, your alone, everybody's alone, oh Cody Pomeray you can't win you can't lose all is ephemeral all is hurt”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Life, Fear

“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.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Betrayal, Flying, Anger, Hurtful

“Just sort of relax your mind and say yes, it does hurt, I know. Don't try and shut it out.”

Philip Pullman book The Subtle Knife

Source: The Subtle Knife

“But life isn’t about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It’s about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Time Untime

Life, Forgiveness, Learning, Past

“Everybody's afraid of love, because love is what hurts the most.”

Sharon Shinn book Archangel

Source: Archangel

Love

“All things which greatly hurt me greatly teach me”

Karen Salmansohn American writer

“Only then, invisible to everyone and with her curtains drawn, did she allow her tears to fall: in love, and for his hurts, and in terrible pride.”

Guy Gavriel Kay book Tigana

Source: Tigana

Love, Tear

“Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere?”

Charles D'Ambrosio (1958) American short story writer, essayist

Source: The Dead Fish Museum: Stories

“… Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

Time

“Mingling with people, hurting them, getting hurt by them…that's how you learn about others…and about yourself. If you don't you'll never be able to care about anyone but yourself.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 23

People, Learning

“So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.”

Stephen King book Bag of Bones

Source: Bag of Bones

“I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.”

Stephen King book Joyland

Source: Joyland

Pain, People, World, Religion

“I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.”

Candace Bushnell (1958) American author

Forgiveness

“It was the worst hurt he had ever known.”

Jack London Index:London - White Fang, 1906.djvu

Source: White Fang

“But the hoping, that's what really hurts.”

Shannon Hale book Book of a Thousand Days

Source: Book of a Thousand Days

Hope

“Then realization had dawned. "Oh, my God, you're the one who hurt Davis, the boy I was with. You saw us together, and you threw him down a gully. He broke both of his legs!"

"He lived?" Gaze narrowing, Lothaire had murmured, "Not for much Longer.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Lothaire

God, Boy

“You really hurt me. I wouldn't hurt you.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

“Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

“Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.”

Ian Fleming book Diamonds Are Forever

Source: Diamonds Are Forever

Money, Girl

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me.”

Stephen Fry book Moab Is My Washpot

Source: Moab Is My Washpot

“If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves again and again, no matter the risk.”

Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“Katniss, I don't think President Snow will kill Peeta. If he does, he won't have any way to hurt you."
"So, what do you think they'll do to him?" I ask.
"Whatever it takes to break you.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Way, Thinking

“One day you’ll wake up and find that the pain’s still there but it doesn’t hurt quite so much.”

Sarra Manning (1950) British writer

Pain

“I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down.”

Tana French book Broken Harbour

Source: Broken Harbour

Thinking

“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). <br class="br">Source: Night

Silence, Hurtful