It Hurts Quotes - Page 22

• 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, Hurt, Home

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

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• Here's me opening my wrists before breakfast, Christmas day, and here's you asking if it hurt. Here's where I choose between mea culpa and Why the hell should I tell you?

  Michael Donaghy

  Hurt, Asking, Breakfast

  Michael Donaghy (2011). “Collected Poems”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

  Lana Del Rey

  Hurt, Trust No One, Thinking

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• I saw this huge billboard that said: 'Abortion Hurts' and then it had a drawing of a butterfly. Who is that for? Is there a lady who's going to see that and be like, 'Oh, I was going to get an abortion but now that I realize it hurts I guess I'll just give birth to a child! 'Cause I know that's painless and raising it should be a snap!'

  Eugene Mirman

  Hurt, Children, Butterfly

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• When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told me to be strong, but I confused to see it so weak You say never to give up, and it hurts to see what comes to be When your hero falls soley the stars, and so does the reception of tomorrow Without my hero, theres only me alone, to deal with my sorrow Your heart ceases to work, and your soul is not happy at all What are you expected to do, when your only hero falls

  Tupac Shakur

  Strong, Hurt, Stars

  Song: River That Flows Forever, Album: The Rose That Grew From Concrete

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• I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier [actually, it was in an anti-aircraft gun emplacement, not a carrier], which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. [Actually, that was her intention in posing for the photograph the way she did.] It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless.

  Jane Fonda

  Hurt, Regret, Gun

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• Hate is a terrible thing. It's a wasteful, stupid emotion. You can hate someone with all your heart, but it'll never do them a bit of harm. The only person it hurts is you. You can spend your days hating, letting it eat away at you, and the person you hate will go on living just the same. So, what's the point?

  Stuart Neville

  Hurt, Hate, Stupid

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• I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.

  David Levithan

  Hurt, Want, Honest

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.79, Egmont UK

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• It's like he has emotional amnesia... I think you have to accept that the person you knew isn't there at the moment. I was witness to how much he loved you. I have the photos. This isn't the person we knew. I don't recognize this person. He's shed his skin." Her heart is broken too. She has to say the thing that will give me back my life. She draws on every reserve. I see how much it hurts her and it hurts me too. I came from her joy and her pain, I lived in it and I live in it now.

  Emma Forrest

  Hurt, Pain, Heart

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• Listen. This will probably be the worst pain you have ever experienced in your life. Everything in your body will tell you to let go, but you have to hold on. You have to hold on, Maddy, no matter what. No matter how badly it hurts. You can never, never let go. Can you do that for me?

  Scott Speer

  Letting Go, Hurt, Pain

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• Its the people you are close to, the ones who love you, the ones who have seen your heart, who have touched your soul - to them, it is obvious that something is wrong or missing. Your heart and soul are missing. They feel it. It hurts them. It kills them.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Love, Hurt, Heart

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• I try to think of a way to get there without going past it. There are lots of ways, but they all have me walking a little farther. And that's stupid, I decide. What am I, a little kid? I can stand to see something it hurts to want. I can see it and then just keep walking. It happens to lots of people everyday. We all survive.

  Catherine Ryan Hyde

  Hurt, Stupid, Kids

  Catherine Ryan Hyde (2008). “Becoming Chloe”, p.39, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

  Eric Clapton

  Hurt, Mean, Guitar

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• Let's face it, gossip is one of the world's most destructive habits, and we're exposed to it practically everywhere we go and in much that we see - work, recreation, sports, home, in magazines, on television.  There is absolutely nothing beneficial about gossip - it hurts everyone involved

  Lori Palatnik

  Sports, Hurt, Home

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• I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Hurt, Long, Half

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• Loving someone is tiring and it hurts, but it's not something I can stop.

  Youngjae

  Hurt, Loving Someone, Tire

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• It hurts more than anything in the world because even though it might not be the case, it feels like you've chosen your child over me. 'I haven't there is no choice. She's part of me. You're part of me too. It's like...I don't know...asking me to pick between my heart and my lungs.' 'I know, but the thing is, you are my heart and my lungs. You're everything to me. And what hurts is that I know i used to be everything to you.

  Mike Gayle

  Hurt, Children, Heart

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• It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.

  Mary J. Blige

  Hurt, Reading, Contracts

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• Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief.

  Jesmyn Ward

  Hurt, Grief, Suffering

  Jesmyn Ward (2013). “Men We Reaped: A Memoir”, p.140, A&C Black

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• Growth only really comes at the point of resis­tance, but that is the moment that we tend to stop. Because it hurts... pushing our lim­its, is a mus­cle that can be cul­ti­vated like any other - incrementally.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Hurt, Growth, Pushing

  "Learning about Learning". Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman, sharpbrains.com. January 21, 2009.

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• I would have to say that looked like it hurt.

  Adam Savage

  Hurt, Hurt Feelings

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• Real isn't how you are made. It's a thing that happens to you. Sometimes it hurts, but when you are Real you don't mind being hurt. It doesn't happen all at once. You become. Once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. Once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always.

  Margery Williams

  Hurt, Real, People

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• I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.

  Og Mandino

  Happiness, Hurt, Heart

  Og Mandino (1986). “Mission: success!”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• In my business, if I get too close to you and you die, it hurts me. And so you develop a natural inclination not to be close to the patient, so that if things don't work out ideally, you can still get up the next day and care for the next patient.

  Mehmet Oz

  Hurt, Next Day, Work Out

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• I had the drink after I fell out of bed. It hurt.

  Liza Minnelli

  Hurt, Bed, Drink

  "Liza Minnelli describes best and worst of times". Interview With Matt Lauer, www.today.com. February 8, 2005.

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