It Hurts Quotes - Page 4

• What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Loneliness, Pushed Away

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.632, Simon and Schuster

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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

  Hurt, Lying, Special

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

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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

  Hurt, Lying, Heart

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

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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, Hurt, Hair

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• Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather have cut that hand off than take it back at that moment. If it would help Nix through this, he'd give her a pair of pliers and a vise so she could do a proper job.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Crush, Hurt, Jobs

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.428, Simon and Schuster

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• The days have taught you not to trust happiness because it hurts when it deceives.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Hurt, Taught, Deceiving

  Mahmoud Darwish (2012). “Journal of an Ordinary Grief”, p.82, Archipelago

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• Got your text,” he said when I climbed out. “How much did it hurt?” “Not at all,” I said. “Apparently, I can’t get a tattoo because I’m a witch.” “I could have told them-” He stopped. “Oh, you said witch.” “Ha-ha.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Tattoo, Hurt, Witch

  Kelley Armstrong (2014). “Darkness Rising: Complete Trilogy Collection: The Gathering, The Calling, The Rising”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• He moved toward her and cupped her face in his hands. "You are so beautiful that sometimes it hurts just to look at you. Your eyes are a thousand shades of brown and gold with hints of blue and green." He touched her cheekbones with thumbs. "Your freckles are like the girl-next-door fantasy brought to life. Your mouth is sexy and soft and when you smile, the world seems like a better place. Swear you'll never change anything. Swear it.

  Susan Mallery

  Beautiful, Girl, Sexy

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• Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless black and at best, a happiness so bright that it hurts the eyes to see, coming and going on some unseen projector perpetually turned by an invisible hand. One, then another. The hollow click of the shutter. Now stop. Freeze this frame. Pluck it down and hold it close and be damned by what you see. Henri always said: the price of a memory is the memory if the sorrow it brings.

  Pittacus Lore

  Hurt, Memories, Eye

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• Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.

  Phoebe Stone

  Hurt, Shoes, Awkward

  Phoebe Stone (2012). “The Romeo and Juliet Code”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• A home life where it's so full of so many rigorous ideas about the way things should be, this word "should," I think is absolutely toxic to children. It hurts their personalities, it hurts their points of view in the world, it hurts their ability to be open and caring and curious. An element of allowance in a family, is, I think, really a positive thing.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Hurt, Children, Home

  "Mark Ruffalo and Maya Forbes on How YouTube and Wes Anderson Helped Shape Infinitely Polar Bear". Interview with Richard Lawson, www.vanityfair.com. June 19, 2015.

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• If it hurts too much, make it hurt someone else instead.

  Robert Jordan

  Hurt, Too Much, Ifs

  "Lord of Chaos". Book by Robert Jordan, 1994.

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• Well, you know, whatever works works. If, you know, if laying your hands on someone and giving them healing makes them feel better, what does it hurt? It's a good thing.

  Rosemary Altea

  Hurt, Healing, Feel Better

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• It hurts the bald-head just as much as the thatched-head to have his hairs plucked.

  Bion of Borysthenes

  Hurt, Hair

  "On the Tranquility of the Mind". Book by Seneca,

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• What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so good to win.

  David Roochnik

  Hurt, Winning, Losing

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• It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me.

  Al Kaline

  Sports, Hurt, League

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• The challenge of power is how to use it and not abuse it. When you abuse it, it reverses on you and it hurts you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hurt, Buddhism, Challenges

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• One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.

  Michael Jackson

  Hurt, Children, Dad

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• They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts.

  Mother Teresa

  Hurt, Giving, Smoking

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Don't you understand anything about commitment, about being a pro, about sticking with what you say you wanna be? You don't just say it when you feel good. You don't just say it when you're not tired. You don't do it just when it's not sunny. You do it every day of your life. You do it when it hurts to do it, when it's the last thing in the world you wanna' do, when there are a million reasons not to do it. You do it because you're a professional.

  Teddy Atlas

  Hurt, Tired, Commitment

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• Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Hurt, Lying, Scruples

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1775). “The Rivals: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden”, p.32

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• Never threaten, because a threat is a promise to pay that it isn't always convenient to meet, but if you don't make it good it hurts your credit. Save a threat till you're ready to act, and then you won't need it.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Hurt, Promise, Needs

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.78, Lulu.com

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• When you stifle human potential, when you don't invest in new ideas, it doesn't just cut off the people who are affected; it hurts us all.

  William J. Clinton

  Hurt, Cutting, Ideas

  Bill Clinton's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.nytimes.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hurt, Pain, Numbness

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle”, Treasure Press

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• Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.

  Sam Waterston

  Hurt, Too Much, Limits

  "New Again: Sam Waterston". Interview with Martin Torgoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 27, 2015.

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