Quotes about harm
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“Second, and far more important: tuck your chin. You're going to get hurt, so expect it and be ready. You may as well see it coming.”

Elizabeth Haydon book Rhapsody: Child of Blood

Source: Rhapsody: Child of Blood

“The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens, and you don"t do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

Love, Life, People, Way

“Your parents could always hurt you, no matter how old you were.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Parent

“Jace knew he was being cruel, and he barely cared. Hurting people he loved was almost as good as hurting himself when he was in this kind of mood.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Love, People, Mood

“They can't hurt me. I'm not like the rest of you. There's no one left I love.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Love

“But hardly anybody ever finds out that their actions really, actually, hurt other people! People don’t get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don’t stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.”

Stephen King book Carrie

Source: Carrie

People, Thinking

“It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Smile

“There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.”

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist

Feeling, Time

“Here's the thing about broken hearts. You can always survive them. Always. No matter how deep the hurt, the capacity to heal and move on is even stronger.”

Susan Wiggs (1958) American writer

Source: Summer at Willow Lake

Heart

“Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice.”

Tess Gerritsen book The Surgeon

Source: The Surgeon

Evil

“bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.”

Richard Dawkins book The Magic of Reality

Source: The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True

Feeling, Universe, Chance, Personality

“Those who really love you don't mean to hurt you and if they do, you can't see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Love

“Remember, when you don’t know what to do, it never hurts to play Scrabble. It’s like reading the I Ching or tea leaves.”

Kelly Link (1969) American writer

Reading, Tea

“Very few people mate for life with the people they fall for at twelve. Doesn't mean is isn't real, doesn't mean it doesn't hurt, doesn't mean it doesn't matter, but basically, we're talking a practice swing in the big game of love.”

Jennifer Crusie (1949) American writer

Source: Faking It

Love, Life, People, Game

“No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.”

Edward St. Aubyn (1960) British writer

Pain

“I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Hate

“I told her why we are here. I told you wouldn't hurt Jack."
"The coffin?"
I smiled. I couldn't help it. He was a 'jack in a box.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Guilty Pleasures

Source: Guilty Pleasures

Smile, Help, Box

“I'll be fine, they tell me. I won't die. It'll just hurt a lot.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

“I have always been aware of how I break.
I know what kind of situations will break me.
I know what kind of people will do it.
I know how much it will hurt.”

David Levithan book Every You, Every Me

Source: Every You, Every Me

People

“Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

School

“My heart was broken so badly last time that it still hurts. Isn't that crazy? To still have a broken heart almost two years after a love story ends?”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Love, Time, Heart

“I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.”

Holly Black book Doll Bones

Source: Doll Bones

Thinking, Chance

“When we don’t forgive, we’re not hurting the other person. We’re not hurting the company that did us wrong. We’re not hurting God. We’re only hurting ourselves.”

Joel Osteen (1963) American televangelist and author

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

God, Forgiveness, Personality

“The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.”

Kresley Cole American writer

“How is it possible that our parents lied to us?"

"Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter bunny, um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that…"

"Everythings going to be alright.”

Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator

Source: Runaways, Vol. 1: Pride and Joy

God, School, Parent

“I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees

People, Way, Feeling, Joy

“As one grows weaker one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt.”

Jack London book The Star Rover

Source: The Star Rover

Suffering, Heartbreaking, Hurtful

“Dead or alive, the balls still hurt when kicked, huh? (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Dead

“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Feeling, Relationship

“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 (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Ironside

Love, Hope

“It hurts to think of her, but I can't stop. It ought to hurt.

After all, hell is supposed to be hot.”

Holly Black book Red Glove

Source: Red Glove

Hell, Thinking

“Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

People, Way

“I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.”

Don DeLillo book Cosmopolis

Source: Cosmopolis

Education

“Good thing he's dead," Lula said, "or that would have hurt like the devil.”

Janet Evanovich book Hot Six

Source: Hot Six

Dead

“Relax. You're in good hands. Tabby wont hurt you.

She stabbed me!

Damn! I told her not to stab any more Hunters. I hate it when she does that.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Seize the Night

Hate

“Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and loaded, as complicated and full of subtext as a bleak and brilliant play.”

Nick Hornby book How to Be Good

Source: How to Be Good

“Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Children, Fear, Learning

“This might hurt a little is universal code for this will definitely hurt a lot”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: The Last Guardian

Universe

“But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

South of the Border, West of the Sun

Understanding, Personality, Depressing

“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”

Harry Crews (1935–2012) Novelist, short story writer, essayist

Beauty, Nature, Hurtful

“Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.”

Alison McGhee (1960) American novelist

Source: All Rivers Flow To The Sea

Feeling, Heart

“Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in.”

Stephen King book The Shining

Source: The Shining (1977)

Life, Light

“Tell me about our legal issues. And use small words. I don't like to think at this hour of the morning. It hurts."

~Leo to Merripen”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Married By Morning

Thinking

“You can’t jump for the stars if your feet hurt.”

Dan Brown book Digital Fortress

Source: Digital Fortress

Star

“I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds." ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love”

Francine Rivers (1947) American writer

Love, Men, God, Truth

“Itʹs not just the dress or the hair. Itʹs you. Youʹre beautiful. So beautiful, it hurts me.ʺ”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Beauty

“It's nice sometimes
to open up the heart a little
and let some hurt come in.
It proves you're still alive.”

Rod McKuen (1933–2015) American poet, songwriter, composer, and singer

Source: Listen to the Warm

Heart

“They say a hundred-and-thirty-pound woman has no chance against an athletic two-hundred-pound man. That's a lie. You just have to make the decision to hurt him and then do it.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

Lie, Decision, Chance

“Women want the fairytale. Not all women, of course, but most women grow up dreaming about the kind of man who would risk everything for them, even knowing they might get hurt.”

Nicholas Sparks book True Believer

Source: True Believer

Women, Dreams, Fairytale

“I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.”

Douglas Coupland The Gum Thief

Source: The Gum Thief

Soul

“Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone.
… they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong'
they hurt the ones closest to their hearts,
and we let the most foolish things tear us apart”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Tear, Heart

“You promised you would protect her Nico said.
He might as well have stabbed me with a rusty dagger. It would've hurt less than reminding me of my promise.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

“Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.”

Dale Carnegie book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948), p. 101.

People, Thinking

“I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Feeling, Cry

“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”

Bell Hooks book All About Love: New Visions

Source: All About Love: New Visions

Love, Pain, Loss, Hurtful

“My father used to say that it’s not enough to just beat an attacker off. You have to hurt them enough that they’ll know not to tangle with you anymore. Or preferably kill them. (Wren)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Unleash the Night

“They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.”

Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator

Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No Future for You

Pain, Way, Forgiveness

“You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.”

Khaled Hosseini book And the Mountains Echoed

Source: And the Mountains Echoed

Pain, Sense

“I love you, Daisy. I love you so much I hurt.”

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer

Source: Kiss an Angel

Love

“Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: When God Whispers Your Name

“Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

Love, Thinking, Deep

“Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

Love, Pain, Learning

“Did I hurt you in the parking lot?"
"No, m'lady. I fell, so I could put a tracker on your car."
Great.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Fate's Edge

Cars

“I pulled him closer to me, wrapping my arms around him, kissing him just as desperately as he was kissing me. Like if we could just love long enough and hard enough and deep enough, then the world outside would never, could never hurt us.”

Malorie Blackman Noughts & Crosses

Source: Noughts & Crosses

Love, World, Kiss

“I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's no one's fault and that to try to preempt the rites of passage is an act of contempt for the child's courage.”

James Lee Burke (1936) Novelist, short story writer

Feeling, Courage, Parent

“I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him enough, it will be like none of it ever happened and my heart won't hurt so badly”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Thinking, Heart

“When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.”

Stephen King book Rage

Source: Rage

Pain, World, Tree, Time

“I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.”

Malorie Blackman Noughts & Crosses

Source: Noughts & Crosses

“Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss -- loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us.”

Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian

Source: Finding Peace

Love, Pain, Peace, Justice

“I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Tender Is the Night

Source: Tender Is the Night

Women, People, Feeling, Home

“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”

Homér Iliad

Source: The Iliad

Rage, Past, Anger

“Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: If You Believe

“Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.”

Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) American speculative fiction writer

Source: Power & Light

Change

“Why are you leaving me?
He wrote, I do not know how to live.
I do not know either but I am trying.
I do not know how to try.
There were some things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So i buried them and let them hurt me”

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist

“The only thing for it is to use men for sex and never let any of them get so close they could hurt you.”

Dorothy Koomson book My Best Friend's Girl

Source: My Best Friend's Girl

Men, Sex

“Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Way

“When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more… exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them.”

Marguerite Duras book The Lover

Source: The Lover

Books, Thinking

“Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

Pain, Laughter, Heartbreaking, Hurtful

“When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.”

David D. Burns (1942) American psychiatrist

Friendship, People, Feeling

“It's hard to concentrate when your feelings are hurt.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Feeling

“there are only so many ways to get rejected or ignored. It doesn't hurt at all anymore because why should someone who's a complete stranger have any control over your sense of selfworth?”

Neil Strauss book The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

Source: The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists

Way, Sense

“In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)

Love, Way, Feeling

“Akri hides from no one. He don’t need to. Anyone hurt my akri, I eat them. (Simi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

“It’s not manly to hurt others or belittle them. Respect and kindness require more courage because people take advantage of those.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Styxx

People, Courage

“It is to be broken. It is to be
torn open. It is not to be
reached and come to rest in
ever. I turn against you,
I break from you, I turn to you.
We hurt, and are hurt,
and have each other for healing.
It is healing. It is never whole.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Source: The Collected Poems, 1957-1982

“A good conversation is the only human equivalent: the realizing that decent points are being made and understood, that irony is in play, and elaboration, and that a dull and obvious remark would be almost physically hurtful.”

Christopher Hitchens Mortality

Source: Mortality

“If you have to ask, you've never been in love. More than that, you've never had your feelings hurt by the one you want to trust and cherish you most of all.”

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

Source: Golden: A Retelling of Rapunzel

Love, Feeling

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

Mahmoud Darwich (1941–2008) Palestinian writer

Source: A River Dies of Thirst: journals

Happiness

“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 (1950) American novelist and short story writer

Source: Beauty and the Werewolf

Change, Time

“Oh… God. What was a male supposed to do in this situation?
"I'm sorry," he muttered. "If I… uh, hurt your feelings or something."
She glared at him. "I'm not hurt. I'm pissed off and sexually frustrated.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

God, Feeling

“If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.”

John Fowles book The Magus

Source: The Magus

Silence

“But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

Truth, Lie

“We speak with one voice,” Walt said. “Especially on this matter. No one hurts Sadie Kane.”

Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

“We will never be cleansed until we confess we are dirty. And we will never be able to wash the feet of those who have hurt us until we allow Jesus, the one we have hurt, to wash ours.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: 3:16: The Numbers of Hope

“How can thoughts hurt so much when they aren't even physical?”

Beatrice Sparks (1917–2012) American writer

Source: Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager

“Are you badly hurt?"
"Hideously," said the king, without sounding injured at all. "I am disemboweled. My insides may in an instant become my outsides as I stand here before you.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“If I'm dead," he murmured. "Why does it hurt so much?”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Dead

“Only Americans can hurt America.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)

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