John Green Quotes About Hurt

Quotes about: Hurt

• It hurts because it mattered.

  John Green

  Hurt, Feelings, Important

• So often we try to make other people feel better by minimizing their pain, by telling them that it will get better (which it will) or that there are worse things in the world (which there are). But that's not what I actually needed. What I actually needed was for someone to tell me that it hurt because it mattered. I have found this very useful to think about over the years, and I find that it is a lot easier and more bearable to be sad when you aren't constantly berating yourself for being sad.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Hurt, Pain

• The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get easier. But the fact that it will get easier does not mean that it doesn’t hurt now. And when people try to minimize your pain they are doing you a disservice. And when you try to minimize your own pain you’re doing yourself a disservice. Don’t do that. The truth is that it hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself. But that doesn’t mean that it won’t end, that it won’t get better. Because it will.

  John Green

  Broken Heart, Hurt, Pain

• At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it's over and you're relieved.

  John Green

  Letting Go, Hurt, Alaska

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.15, Penguin

• Maybe there is 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.

  John Green

  Life, Hurt, I Hate You

  "Will Grayson, Will Grayson". Book by John Green and David Levithan, April 6, 2010.

• You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world...but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.

  John Green

  Romantic, Hurt, Determination

  "The Fault in our Stars". Book by John Green, January 10, 2012.

• Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew what Augustus was doing. You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a Sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all of this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.

  John Green

  Hurt, Love You, Sadness

• I hated hurting him. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and the omega of my parents' suffering.

  John Green

  Hurt, Parent, Suffering

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.116, Penguin

• The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.

  John Green

  Hurt, Real, Important

• What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Hurt, Real

  "The Fault in Our Stars". Book by John Green, 2012.

• I am a grenade," I said again. "I just want to stay away from people and read books and think and be with you guys because there's nothing I can do about hurting you: You're too invested, so just please let me do that, okay? "I'm going to go to my room and read for awhile, okay? I'm fine. I really am fine: I just want to go read for a while.

  John Green

  Hurt, Book, Thinking

• We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.

  John Green

  Hurt, Helping, Hazel Grace

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.312, Penguin

• In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty-two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting.

  John Green

  Crush, Hurt, Two

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.93, Penguin

• I am crying, he thought, opening his eyes to stare through the soapy, stinging water. I feel like crying, so I must be crying, but it's impossible to tell because I'm underwater. But he wasn't crying. Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if she'd taken the part of him that cried.

  John Green

  Hurt, Real, Taken

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.14, Penguin

• Of course I tensed up when he touched me. To be with him was to hurt him-inevitably. And that's what I'd felt as he reached for me: I'd felt as though I were committing an act of violence against him, because I was.

  John Green

  Hurt, Violence, Courses

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.63, Penguin

• All hurt is brain hurt.

  John Green

  Hurt, Brain

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.167, Penguin

• But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me.

  John Green

  Hurt, Men, Wounded

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.201, Bloomsbury Publishing

• I kept thinking there were two kinds of adults: There were...miserable creatures who scoured the earth in search of something to hurt. And then there were people like my parents, who walked around zombically, doing whatever they had to do to keep walking around.

  John Green

  Hurt, Real, Thinking

• The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

  John Green

  Hurt, Thinking, Missing

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.98, Penguin

• It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

  John Green

  Hurt, It Hurts, Euphemism

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.189, Penguin

• Hurt tends to drown out sorry.

  John Green

  Hurt, Sorry

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.166, Penguin

• Well, but you can eat Grandma's cookies. They're not bad for you. They were made by Grandma. Grandma wouldn't hurt you.

  John Green

  Hurt, Grandma, Cookies

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.173, Bloomsbury Publishing

• Even then, it hurt. The pain was always there, pulling me inside of myself, demanding to be felt. It always felt like I was waking up from the pain when something in the world outside of me suddenly required my comment or attention.

  John Green

  Hurt, Pain, Attention

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.97, Penguin UK

• And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

  John Green

  Breakup, Hurt, Want

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.44, Penguin

• I was so tired of her getting upset for no reason. The way she would get sulky and make references to the freaking oppressive nature of tragedy or whatever but then never said what was wrong, never have any goddamned reason to be sad. And I just think you ought to have a reason. My girlfriend dumped me, so I'm sad. I got caught smoking, so I'm pissed off. My head hurts, so I'm cranky. She never had a reason, Pudge. I was just so tired of putting up with her drama. And I just let her go. Christ.

  John Green

  Girlfriend, Hurt, Drama

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