Hurt Quotes - Page 26

• No, that nurse ain't some kinda monster chicken, buddy, what she is is a ball-cutter. I've seen a thousand of 'em, old and young, men and women. Seen 'em all over the country and in the homes- people who try to make you weak so they can get you to toe the line, to follow their rules, to live like they want you to. And the best way to do this, to get you to knuckle under, is to weaken you by gettin' you where it hurts the worst.

  Ken Kesey

  Country, Home, Men

  Ken Kesey (2016). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”, p.31, Hamilton Books

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• You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?

  Junot Diaz

  Letting Go, Want

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.51, Faber & Faber

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• Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you

  Ellen Hopkins

  Way, Protect You, Carols

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• I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Believe, Safe Haven, Heal

  Nicholas Sparks (2013). “Safe Haven”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

  Margaret Atwood

  Want, Hurts Someone

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

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• 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

  Order, Personality, Feelings

  Richard Dawkins (2012). “The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• He stepped back with exaggerated courtesy. But when I walked past him, he swatted my rump. Hard enough to sting. “You need to be more careful,” he growled. “Keep interfering in my business and you might get hurt.” I said sweetly as I continued to Jesse's room, “The last man who swatted me like that is rotting in his grave.” “I have no doubt about it.” His voice was more satisfied then contrite.

  Patricia Briggs

  Past, Men, Voice

  Patricia Briggs (2008). “Iron Kissed”, p.109, Penguin

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• Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others

  Roland Merullo

  People, Use, Excuse

  Roland Merullo (2011). “The Talk-Funny Girl: A Novel”, p.2, Crown

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• The ability to hurt someone is usually in direct proportion to how much that person cares about you.

  Susan Mallery

  Care, Proportion, Ability

  Susan Mallery (2012). “Almost Perfect”, p.53, Harlequin

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• I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by this realisation. Suffering, you see, is a kind of anger. We rage against the unfairness, the injustice of our sad and sorry lot.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Growing Up, Sorry, Thinking

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.262, Macmillan

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• It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Twists, Your Best Friend, Knobs

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• She clenched her fist in his T-shirt, put her other arm around those too-broad, too-real shoulders. When he tried to pull away, she held on tight. Kami felt the surrender in his mind a moment before he laid his face in the curve of her neck. The whole world was so real it hurt. Kami whispered into Jared's hair, "I'm always on your side.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Real, Curves, Hair

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.74, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Night, Wind

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• I closed my eyes. “Are you okay?” “I’m tired. My knee is hurting again and I’m trying to teleport myself upstairs.” “Um, Kate, you can’t do that.” “I know. But I’m trying very hard. Let me know if I start fading?

  Ilona Andrews

  Tired, Eye, Trying

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• And then they were kissing. Something exploded within his chest burning away the tension and confusion and fear. Burning away the hurt of seconds earlier. For a moment it felt like nothing mattered anymore. Like nothing would matter ever again.

  James Dashner

  Kissing, Confusion, Burning

  James Dashner (2014). “The Maze Runner Trilogy”, p.416, Scholastic UK

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• One day at a time. You rise, you eat, you bathe, and you talk to the few people you can tolerate while feeling so wretched. Over time, it hurts a little less. Then a little less. And so on...Until one morning, you will awake and realize the pain is only a memory. It will always be with you, but it will eventually lack the power to cripple you.

  Sylvia Day

  Morning, Pain, Memories

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• Just because one person's problem is less traumatic than another's doesn't mean they're required to hurt less

  J.A. Redmerski

  Mean, Problem, Persons

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• What good is talking if neither of you are really committed? If one of you had an affair or got addicted to drugs or was abusive, simply talking about it wouldn;t take the hurt away; or fix the trust that's been lost. In the end, marriage comes down to actions. I think people talk too much about the things that bother them, instead of actually doing the little things that keep a marriage strong.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Strong, Thinking, Talking

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• I never know what to tell them. I mean, there's nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just feel like telling them the truth. I'd say that for 3 months, you're going to feel worse than you've ever felt and you cope as best you can. And that after 6 months, the pain isn't so bad, but it still hurts more than you think it will. And even after years, you still find yourself thinking about the person you lost and get sad about it. And you still miss them all the time.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Pain, Mean, Thinking

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• For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me who I was and made me different from everybody else. I took it with me everywhere, and there was never a moment when I wasn't aware of it. It was like I was totally awake, like I could feel every nerve ending in my body. Sometimes my skin would almost hurt from the force of it, that's how strong it was. Like my whole body was buzzing or something. I felt almost, I don't know, noble, like a medieval knight or something, carrying this secret love around with me.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Strong, Knights, Long

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2008). “Lost and Found: A Novel”, Little, Brown

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• Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

  George Saunders

  Life, Confused, Confusion

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.55, A&C Black

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• Can’t sleep ‘cause all the dirt make my heart hurt

  Tupac Shakur

  Heart, Sleep, Dirt

  Song: On My Block, Album: Better Dayz

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• It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.

  Stephen King

  Found, Best Things, Courses

  Stephen King (2012). “The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• I wonder if it hurts to live, And if they have to try, And whether, could they choose between, They would not rather die.

  Emily Dickinson

  Trying, Wonder, Dies

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.176, Delphi Classics

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• Please," he whispered. His voice was low but clear. "Don't hurt me anymore." Attolia recoiled. Once, as a child, she'd thrown her slipper in a rage and had knocked an amphora of oil from its pedestal. The amphora had been a favorite of hers. It had smashed, and the scent of the hair oil inside had lingered for days. She remembered the scent still, though she didn't know what in the stinking cell had brought it to mind.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Children, Hair, Cells

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Queen of Attolia”, p.16, Harper Collins

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