Being Hurt Quotes

• Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

  Muhammad Ali

  Hurt, Believe, Past

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• Do not suppress it - that would hurt you inside. Do not express it - this would not only hurt you inside, it would cause ripples in your surroundings. What you do is transform it.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Hurt, Causes

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.64, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hurt, Heart, Confusion

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• Judge no one until you know their circumstances. No matter how awful they seemed, sometimes there was a valid reason for their behaviour. Granted, some people were just mean and corrupt, but not always. Many people were just in pain, and by acting out, they were only trying to protect themselves from being hurt more.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Pain, Mean

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• Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.

  Vipin Sharma

  Love, Sympathy, Hurt

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  I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Positive, Marriage

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• Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Strength, Leadership

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• Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Poverty is a lot like childbirth - you know it is going to hurt before it happens, but you'll never know how much until you experience it.

  J. K. Rowling

  Hurt, Poverty, Childbirth

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• A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Hurt

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover years, 1929-1931”

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• Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

  Robert Fulghum

  Im Sorry, Appreciation, Hurt

  All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1988)

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• The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

  William Shakespeare

  Hurt, Love You, Lovers

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. [296]

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• 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

  Hurt, Anger, Passion

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• I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang.

  Richard Chamberlain

  Hurt, Lying, Feel Better

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Love, I Miss You, Missing You

  Nicholas Sparks (2011). “The Notebook”, p.76, Hachette UK

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• When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

  Louise Penny

  Pain, Faults, Feels

  Louise Penny (2007). “A Fatal Grace: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.189, Macmillan

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  Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Family Practice" by Leigh Roche, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2015.

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• I love America. You always hurt the one you love.

  David Frye

  Hurt, America, One You Love

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• Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

  Hannah Arendt

  Forgiveness, Life Changing, Keys

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

  Lillian Smith

  Hurt, Grief, Heart

  "Killers of the Dream" by Lillian Smith, (pp. 25-26), 1994.

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• 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.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Hurt, Insignificant Things

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.116, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

  George R. R. Martin

  Pain, Old Wounds, Broken

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.50, Bantam

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• Bad things are always going to happen in life; People will eventually hurt you, but you can't use that as an excuse to hurt someone back.

  Chris Brown

  Hurt, People, Use

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  If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.

  Diego Rivera

  Hurt, Happy Friday, Victim

  Diego Rivera (1960). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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• Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hurt, Curiosity, Belief

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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