Hurt Quotes - Page 33

• You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Pain, Doctors, Doe

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• Dont hurt me,'Caine whispered. He didnt have the will to look up at her. Gaia laughed. "Have you seen Mother? I seem to have lost her.

  Michael Grant

  Mother, Looks, Look Up

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• You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.

  Neil Gaiman

  Hands, Okay

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• Dear Lord,” she said in a strangled whisper. “I can bear it for a while...but please don't let it hurt forever.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Dear Lord, Forever, Bears

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• It hurts to much to be close to you, but continually pushed away.

  Jeaniene Frost

  It Hurts, Pushed Away

  Jeaniene Frost (2013). “Twice Tempted: A Night Prince Novel”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• He is not coming back." And it hurt.It hurt until she was a mass of pain,worse than it had been when she thought he was dead. More all consuming. Ravaging her insides.

  Lora Leigh

  Pain, Coming Back, Mass

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• I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Happiness, People

  "The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Book by Neil Gaiman, June 18, 2013.

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• We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love- all kinds- was really about.

  Sarah Dessen

  People, Kind, Ends

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.237, Penguin UK

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• She is like a child picking at a scab, unable to stop herself even though she knows it will hurt.

  Kristin Hannah

  Children, Scabs, Knows

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “Fly Away”, p.1, Pan Macmillan

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• We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Forgiveness, Revenge, People

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• And I just think that if you believe in something and you want it so much and you're not hurting anyone else, you have to go for it. Which sometimes means taking a risk, even if it's scary. But the thing you want most to happen doesn't stand a chance unless you give it one.

  Susane Colasanti

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.83, Penguin

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• So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.

  Steve Martin

  I Can

  "Shopgirl". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.

  Stephen King

  Pain, People, Use

  Stephen King (2014). “Joyland”, p.119, Titan Books

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• No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

  Edward St Aubyn

  Pain, Bigs, Ifs

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• Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe in the righteousness of the cause, which it is our privilege to espouse. We have an abiding faith in the mercy of the Almighty God, and we have firm faith in the British Constitution. That being so, we should fail in our duty if we wrote anything with a view to hurt.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Humble, Simple

  Mahatma Gandhi (1960). “1903-1905”

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• This is new to us, you know? Your mother's sorry. She's sorry that she hurt your feelings, and she wants you to invite your girlfriend over for dinner." "So that she can make her feel bad and weird?" "Well she is kind of weird, isn't she?" Park didn't have the energy to be angry. He sighed and let his head fall back on the chair. His dad kept talking. "Isn't that why you like her?

  Rainbow Rowell

  Mother, Girlfriend, Sorry

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• To this day, she’s still sad. Because there’s not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. I’m just saying that I took the pain that was inside of her at that moment and made it my own. And it didn’t hurt me at all.

  Tom Perrotta

  Pain, Mind, Body

  "The Leftovers". Book by Tom Perrotta, August 30, 2011.

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• Lily slumped, putting her shaking hands on his shoulders. "But you will, won't you?" Pansy's voice broke into a sob. "Yes, Pan," Galen said quietly. "I don't like that," Pansy said. Galen stood and put his arms around the fine-boned girl, while Rose continued to comfort Lily. Oliver looked away. It was such a private moment; he hated to intrude on it. Galen was beloved by all of the sisters, but the love between him and Rose was so clear and shining that it hurt to look at them, spending their last hours together caring for the other girls.

  Jessica Day George

  Girl, Caring, Hands

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• Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.

  Neil Gaiman

  Adults, Said, Happened

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• You've got to learn to let go and let your children fall, and fail. If you try to protect them from hurt, and always rush to their side with Band-Aids, they won't learn about life, and what is true, what works, what helps, and what are real consequences of certain kinds of behavior. When they do get hurt, which they will, they won't know how to take care of their grown selves. They won't even know where the aspirin is kept.

  Anne Lamott

  Letting Go, Children, Real

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• Vera said: 'Why do you feel you have to turn everything into a story?' So I told her why: Because if I tell the story, I control the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make you laugh, and I would rather have you laugh at me than feel sorry for me. Because if I tell the story, it doesn't hurt as much. Because if I tell the story, I can get on with it.

  Nora Ephron

  Sorry, Laughing, Stories

  "Heartburn". Book by Nora Ephron, 1983.

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• He doesn’t love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didn’t know any better. When I trusted everyone. I’m not that person any more. He’s just a boy. He was the first to really hurt me, but he’s just a boy. There were a lot of them.

  Sarah Dessen

  Boys, Fifteen, Might

  Sarah Dessen (2003). “How to Deal”, Puffin

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• In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.

  Richard Rohr

  People, Half

  Richard Rohr (2013). “Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life -- A Companion Journal”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons

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• The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

  Bell Hooks

  Pain, Loss, Practice

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• Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better?

  Randy Pausch

  Apology, Three, Feels

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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