It Hurts Quotes - Page 5

• My arm hurts all the time now. It hurts right now. It never stops hurting.

  Mark T Bertolini

  Hurt, Arms, Right Now

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Hurt, Men, Poet

  Archibald MacLeish (1978). “Riders on the Earth: essays and recollections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Deconstruction is great for the intellect, but it hurts the heart terribly.

  Eric Maisel

  Hurt, Heart, Deconstruction

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.112, Penguin

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• Getting punched in the face with a padded glove doesn't really hurt your face. It doesn't hurt your skull. The only thing it hurts is your brain. You can feel the brain injury happening. It's an instant headache.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Hurt, Skulls, Brain

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• Goddamn, sometimes it hurt to be free.

  Kristin Hannah

  Hurt, Sometimes, Sometimes It Hurts

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• Leverage is the ability to apply positive pressure on yourself to follow through on your decisions even when it hurts.

  Orrin Woodward

  Hurt, Decision, Pressure

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2016

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• It hurts every day when you practice hard. Plus, when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?

  Bruce Jenner

  Hurt, Practice, Who Cares

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• Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, ‘where does it hurt?’ It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.

  Warsan Shire

  Hurt, Night, Doe

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• Don't be scared to embrace the way that it hurts just to grow. You'll look back and your heart will thank you for not standing still when what you needed the most was to move forward

  Hayley Williams

  Hurt, Moving, Heart

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• The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.

  Anais Nin

  Hurt, Imagination, Doe

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• the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they ought to be hurt, but because it hurts you. Anger is a form of recognition. It amounts to admitting that those people are important to you and that they have the power to hurt you. Actually, they haven't.

  Ayn Rand

  Hurt, Anger, People

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.510, Penguin

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• It hurts me to hear the tone in which the poor are condemned as "shiftless," or "having a pauper spirit," just as it would if a crowd mocked at a child for its weakness, or laughed at a lame man because he could not run, or a blind man because he stumbled.

  Albion Fellows Bacon

  Running, Hurt, Children

  Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). “Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations”

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• Something I would always remember. When you forget how bad it hurts, you feel so free.

  Nova Ren Suma

  Hurt, Remember, Forget

  Nova Ren Suma (2011). “Imaginary Girls”, p.18, Penguin

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• I thought that what I felt for you was right," Luce said. "I loved you until it hurt me, until our love was consumed by your pride and rage. The thing you called love made me disappear. So I had to stop loving." She Paused. "Our adoration never diminished the Throne, but your love diminished me. I never meant to hurt you. I only meant to stop you from hurting me.

  Lauren Kate

  Hurt, Pride, Thrones

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• Angel screeched with fury and despair to the empty walls around her. "I'm human, do you hear me? It hurts!

  James Patterson

  Hurt, Wall, Angel

  James Patterson (2012). “Maximum Ride: Nevermore”, p.198, Random House

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• I miss you Emma." I'm not sure, but it looks like her eyes tear up. "I was fine for months without you," she says, the words hushed and forlorn. "Why does it hurt now?" I'm sighing and shoving a hand through my hair, which I know from experience leaves strands of it stabbing out in numerous directions, defiant and crazy-looking. Maybe crazy is exactly how I feel. "Because now we have hope of something more.

  Tammara Webber

  Hurt, Crazy, Eye

  Tammara Webber (2011). “Where You Are”, p.182, Tammara Webber

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• I had to stop linking every single thing that happened to me with Kennedy. Realization dawned then, that he was still my default. Over the past three years, we’d become each other’s habit. And though he’d broken his habit of me when he walked away, I’d not broken my habit of him. I was still tethering him to my present, to my future. The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I began to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.

  Tammara Webber

  Hurt, Past, Years

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• Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it.

  Alex Garland

  Beach, Hurt, Circles

  "The Beach". www.imdb.com. February 2, 2000.

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• It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.

  R. K. Milholland

  Hurt, Would Be, Wanted

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• It's a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose...

  Bob Dole

  Hurt, Fun, Winning

  Bob Dole's Concession Speech, www.c-span.org. November 5, 1996.

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• A broken leg can be remembered and located: "It hurt right below my knee, it throbbed, I felt sick at my stomach." But mental pain is remembered the way dreams are remembered-in fragments, unbidden realizations, like looking into a well and seeing the dim reflection of your face in that instant before the water shatters.

  Tracy Thompson

  Depression, Dream, Hurt

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• Children are the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. It hurts me to be away from them for a few hours. It really does. I love them and they're girls, so they know how to push my buttons. But I've learned a lot and I have to thank my wife for that.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Girl, Hurt, Morning

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant minor masterpiece. . . . Like the best works of farce, academic or otherwise, Dear Committee Members deftly mixes comedy with social criticism and righteous outrage. By the end, you may well find yourself laughing so hard it hurts.

  Maureen Corrigan

  Hurt, Laughing So Hard, Finding Yourself

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• The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.

  John Green

  Hurt, Real, Important

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• You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.

  Louise Erdrich

  Hurt, Years, People

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