Hurt Quotes - Page 12

• 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

  Important, May, Wells

  Elizabeth Haydon (2010). “Requiem for the Sun: A New Adventure in the Symphony of Ages”, p.373, Macmillan

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

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Hair, Dresses

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• The universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected through an invisible web of stories. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are all in a silent conversation. Do no harm. Practise compassion. And do not gossip behind anyone's back - not even seemingly innocent remark! The words that come out of our mouth do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time. One man's pain will hurt us all. One man's joy will make everyone smile.

  Elif Safak

  Pain, Men, Compassion

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• • The key to fighting is never to fight unless the cause is so great that you couldn’t bear not to defend it and the losses you are going to suffer are things that you could afford to lose. If you do fight, the thing to remember is that it is going to hurt because that is what happens in a fight and you might as well reconcile yourself to it in the beginning and then it will not matter when it happens

  Jennifer Crusie

  Loss, Fighting, Keys

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• The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hope, Regret, Sunset

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

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• Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him — as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Vanity, Rose, Rags

  "The Beautiful and Damned".

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• I assume the Spirit is always whispering, "Abba", to God's children, assuring them that they are safe in His care. And he is continually calling them to become what God saved them to be, solid people, indestructibly alive, hurting perhaps, but consumed with pleasing the Father.

  Larry Crabb

  Children, Father, People

  Larry Crabb (2007). “Becoming a True Spiritual Community: A Profound Vision of What the Church Can Be”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I truly thought I might hurt that man," he said, "very badly." "I didn't know you were capable of such bad temper." "Apparently I am.

  Kristin Cashore

  Men, Might, Said

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• Rage filled me at her words - cold, black, unending rage. Whatever happened to me, Mab would not hurt my sister again. She would not.

  Jennifer Estep

  Black, Cold, Rage

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• Fear can't hurt you," she said. "When it washes over you, give it no power. It's a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.

  Maureen Johnson

  Snakes, Giving, Over You

  Maureen Johnson (2011). “The Name of the Star”, p.161, Penguin

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• So he decided to stay out of it and instead turned back to Lady Bridgerton, who was, as it happened, the closest person to him, anyway. “And how are you this afternoon?” he asked. Lady Bridgerton gave him a very small smile as she handed him his cup of tea. “Smart man,” she murmured. “It’s self-preservation, really,” he said noncommittally. “Don’t say that. They wouldn’t hurt you.” “No, but I’m sure to be injured in the cross fire.

  Julia Quinn

  Smart, Men, Fire

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• America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive. My daughter is four, my boy is one. I'd like them to see America as a toy, a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling and then get out.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, Boys, America

  "Johnny Depp: U.S. is like a stupid puppy". edition.cnn.com. September 3, 2003.

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• I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart - so hard, it hurt me. A hundred times I almost rose, almost went in to her; a hundred times I thought, Go to her! Why are you waiting? Go back to her side! But every time, I thought of what would happen if I did. I knew that I couldn't lie beside her, without wanting to touch her. I couldn't have felt her breath upon my mouth, without wanting to kiss her. And I couldn't have kissed her, without wanting to save her.

  Sarah Waters

  Lying, Heart, Kissing

  Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.153, Penguin

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• I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt

  Charles Bukowski

  Want

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Hollywood”, p.29, Canongate Books

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• They stood there for a while, not saying anything. Then Eli said: 'Do you want to come in?' Oskar didn't reply. Eli pulled on her T-shirt, lifted her hands, let them fall. 'I'm never going to hurt you.' 'I know that.' 'What are you thinking about?' 'That T-shirt. Is it from the trash room?' '...yes.' 'Have you washed it?' Eli didn't answer. 'You're a little gross, you know that?' 'I can change, if you like.' 'Good. Do that.

  John Ajvide Lindqvist

  Fall, Thinking, Hands

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• Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Sadness, Night

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “Something Wicked This Way Comes”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• See, when you lie to me it hurts," Rixon said, swiping an imaginary tear. "I thought we had something special. I thought our joint eternal sentences of damnation were our bond.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Lying, Special, Tears

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.1159, Simon and Schuster

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• A little extra forgiveness never hurts," said Matt, quoting one of Celia's favorite sayings.

  Nancy Farmer

  Littles, Said, Quoting

  Nancy Farmer (2002). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.

  Sandra Brown

  People, Might, Ifs

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• I don't want our relationship to end like this. You're one of the very few friends I have, and it hurts not being able to see you. When am I going to be able to talk to you? I want you to tell me that much, at least.

  Haruki Murakami

  Want, Few Friends, Able

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• Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.

  Anita Shreve

  Thinking, Water, Stories

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• I asked my schoolmate Mary to write a letter to me. She was funny and full of life. She liked to run around her empty house without any clothes on, even once she was too old for that. Nothing embarrassed her. I admired that so much, because everything embarrassed me, and that hurt me. She loved to jump on her bed. She jumped on her bed for so many years that one afternoon, while I watched her jump, the seams burst. Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn’t someone, somewhere, laughing?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Running, Laughter, Writing

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• Was this love? Because it hurt. It was like a bit of glass stuck somewhere important--his heart or his head, and it was throbbing.

  Jenny Downham

  Heart, Glasses, Important

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• You cannot be with someone just because you don’t want to hurt him. You have your own happiness to think about.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Happiness, Thinking, Happy Love

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “The Van Alen Legacy: Number 4 in series”, p.148, Hachette UK

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• Well, you can’t have just some of me, Jai,” I told her. “You appreciate the part of me that didn’t get angry because two ‘things’ we own got hurt. But the flip side of that is my belief that you don’t repair things if they still do what they’re supposed to do. The cars still work. Let’s just drive ’em.

  Randy Pausch

  Two, Appreciate, Car

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.141, Hachette UK

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