Hurt Feelings Quotes - Page 4

• If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

  Bellamy Young

  Lonely, Gratitude, Hurt

  "Bellamy Young, ‘Scandal’ Star, Opens Up About How She Keeps Her Center In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2013.

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• When you're as important as I am, getting your feelings hurt by me is almost an honor.

  Matt Groening

  Hurt, Feelings, Honor

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• The very same brain centers that interpret and feel physical pain also become activated during experiences of emotional rejection. In brain scans, they light up in response to social ostracism, just as they would when triggered by physically harmful stimuli. When people speak of feeling hurt or of having emotional pain, they are not being abstract or poetic, but scientifically quite precise.

  Gabor Mate

  Hurt, Pain, Emotional

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• Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Hurt, Issues, People

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• Love those who hurt you the most, because they are probably the ones closest to you.
  They, too, are on a path, and just like you they are learning to walk before they can fly. Imagine of everybody you hurt in life turned their backs on you? You would be playing a hell of a lot of solitaire.
  Love them no matter what.

  Nikki Sixx

  Hurt, Would Be, Matter

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• A lot of what children's hurt feelings are about is how the parents react.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Hurt, Children, Women

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• That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Hurt, Funny Things, Heartache

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• 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

  Hurt, Feelings, Want

  Cameron Dokey (2011). “Golden”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• Forgiveness isn’t my best thing. Easier staying pissed. But I’m tired of being pissed all the time. Tired of feeling hurt by stuff that can never be fixed because it is an indelible part of the past.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Hurt, Tired, Past

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Fallout”, p.537, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd forgotten how much feelings hurt.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Hurt, Feelings, Forgotten

  Elizabeth Scott (2009). “Living Dead Girl”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you want to have your feelings hurt a little bit because you have some negative feedback, or do you want to continue down the disastrous track you're on and have a huge disaster? Talk about a bruised ego. It may ruin your career.

  Charles Koch

  Hurt, Careers, Track

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• 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

  Hurt, Powerful, Real

  David D. Burns (1999). “The Feeling Good Handbook”, Plume Books

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• Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Hurt, Children, Feelings

  "Living Legends: An Interview With the Incomparable Nikki Giovanni". Interview with Matthew Lynch, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 6, 2012.

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• Take your hurt feelings and channel them into political activism.

  Joy Browne

  Hurt, Women, Political

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• The only albatross is the hurt you divine from what people say about your art

  Stephen Stills

  Art, Hurt, People

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• Anyone who has a dog knows that they have some very deep thoughts, that they have moods and emotions, they get their feelings hurt. It's not a far reach to give them opinions and values and long-term desires.

  Garth Stein

  Dog, Hurt, Long

  "Q & A with Garth". Interview, www.garthstein.com.

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• If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in a fully lived life, we can't equate defeat with being unworthy of love, belonging and joy. If we do, we'll never show up and try again.

  Brené Brown

  Hurt, Disappointment, Moving

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.62, Penguin

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• The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

  Max Lerner

  Life, Motivational, Broken Heart

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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• being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Hurt, Heart, Feelings

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Hit List”, p.122, Hachette UK

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• I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

  Ernie Pyle

  Peace, Hurt, Confused

  Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

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• There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.

  Tillie Olsen

  Hurt, Cuss Words

  Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press

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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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• Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?

  Diogenes

  Hurt, Feelings, Use

  Herakleitos, Diogenes (2011). “Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport”, p.40, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.

  Perry Farrell

  Sad, Hurt, Sometimes

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• I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

  Peter Benchley

  Hurt, Sea, Jellyfish

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