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Reading hurt quotes when you feel like you have hit the wall can help you build self-confidence and get through the adversaries. Many difficult times may come in our lives, such as going through heartbreak, losing a loved one, or having relationship issues. We need to take a break during such situations, gather ourselves together, process our emotions, let go of the extra baggage of emotions and sufferings, and move on with our lives. Though it may not sound so easy, we can still do it. Sitting back and reliving those moments of hurt will not do any good. Read on for some sayings and hurt quotes that will help you move on to a new journey in life and make better decisions.
151 Hurt Quotes And Being Hurt Sayings
These famous quotes of anguish and despair might be just a bunch of words but they are also a ray of hope to minimize your pain and sadness.
1. “Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.” ― Bob Marley
2. “So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri
3. “Those who really love you don’t mean to hurt you and if they do, you can’t see it in their eyes but it hurts them too.” ― Holly Black
4. “Sometimes we want what we couldn’t, sometimes we love what we could.” ― Lang Leav
5. “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” ― James Baldwin
6. “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” ― Nicholas Sparks
7. “A person in pain is being spoken to by that part of himself that knows only how to communicate this way.” ―Malidoma Patrice Somé
8. “There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.” ―Jonathan Safran Foer
9. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” ― Richard Puz
10. “Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.” ― Alysha Speer
11. “Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche
12. “Handling our suffering is an art. If we know how to suffer, we suffer much less, and we’re no longer afraid of being overwhelmed by the suffering inside.” ―Thich Nhat Hanh
13. “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.”― Carroll Bryant
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14. “When someone stabs you it’s not your fault that you feel pain.” ― Louise Penny
15. “No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief.” ― Faraaz Kazi
16. “Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery.” ― Judith McNaught
17. “Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.” ― Mineko Iwasaki
18. “The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.” ― Faraaz Kazi
19. “You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.” ― J.K. Rowling
20. “When you lose someone, you get used to living day to day without them. But you’ll never get used to the “10 second heartbreak.” That’s the time it takes to wake to full consciousness each day and remember…” ― Nina Guilbeau
21. “God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.” ―C.S. Lewis
22. “I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing that’s real.” ― Johnny Cash
23. “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” — Unknown
24. “It’s the love that goes through the hardest trials and survives that’s worth having.” ― Katie Ashley
25.“爱是最beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.” ― Aman Jassal
26. “The end of love looks like the beginning of war.” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana
27. “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.” ― George R. R. Martin
28. “One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.” ― Marty Rubin
29. “The heart was made to be broken.” ― Oscar Wilde
30. “Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don’t.” ― Stephen King
31. “People who wrong others for no good reason tend to keep at it until they finish the job.” ―Thucydides
32. “If you didn’t remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn’t?” ―Jodi Picoult
33. “Things that break – be they bones, hearts, or promises – can be put back together but will never really be whole.” ― Jodi Picoult
34. “There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.” ―Alan Watts
35. “Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.” ― Havelock Ellis
36. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” ― Lena Horne
37. “We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.” ― Ajahn Chah
38. “That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways.” ―Chuck Palahniuk
39. “The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.” ―Paulo Coelho
40. “A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.” ―Michel de Montaigne
41.“最严重的损失你曾经经历过的greatest gift you can have.” ― Byron Katie
42. “What if the worst thing that happened to you turns out to be the best thing that has ever happened to you?” ― Dr. Joe Dispenza
43. “Just because one person’s problem is less traumatic than another’s doesn’t mean they’re required to hurt less” ― J.A. Redmerski
44. “Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.”― Natsuki Takaya
45. “Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?” ― Lady Gaga
46. “Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?”― Jennifer E. Smith
47. “If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy
48. “It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.” ― Willie Nelson
49. “Failure hurts but passes quickly. Regret hurts forever.” ― Shane Parrish
50. “Stop running from pain. Pain is here to teach you something.” ― Justin Kan
51. “We are not our stories, our dramas, or our wrongdoings. We are love.” ― Gabby Bernstein
52. “I’ve survived a lot of things, and I’ll probably survive this.” ― J. D. Salinger
53. “A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
54. “Pain is alwaysemotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.” ― Siri Hustvedt
55. “We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.” ― Lucius Annaneus Seneca
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56. “Sometimes pain and hurt are good things because it means you strived for something in your life.” ― Kathryn Perez
57. “Hurt me with the truth but never comfort me with a lie.” ―Antonio Suhuba-Baruti
58. “I can feel the hurt. There’s something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering.” ― Albert Borris
59. “When a girl gives up, it’s not because she doesn’t love you. But she’s tired of getting hurt and feels like you’ll never care.” ― Justice Cabral
60. “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” ―Edgar Allan Poe
61. “Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.” ― Henepola Gunaratana
62. “The purpose of life, as far as I can tell… is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant.” ― Jordan Peterson
63. “Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation. You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.” ―Marcus Aurelius
64. “So other people hurt me? That’s their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own.” ―Marcus Aurelius
65. “Many things cause pain which would cause pleasure if you regarded their advantages.” ― Baltasar Gracián
66. “The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame.” ― Mark Manson
67. “Just because someone serves you a bad meal, does not mean you have to eat it.” ― George Raveling
68. “If you ignore a deep wound, it gets infected. Same is true of psychological wounds. You have to treat a wound to heal it.” ― Neil Strauss
69. “Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.” ― Hermann Hesse
70.“走出历史,持有你back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” ―Oprah Winfrey
71. “Life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows, doesn’t matter. And some people recover and others don’t.” ― Charlie Munger
72. “No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.” ― Birister Sharma
73. “Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love.” ―Clive Barker
74. “If it hurts it’s probably doing you good. If it’s pleasant, it’s most likely wrong.” ―John Graves
75. “Listen to God with abroken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.” ―Criss Jami
76. “We live very close together. So, our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” ―Dalai Lama
77. “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.” ―George R. R. Martin
78. “You will never know the power in yourself until someone hurts you badly.” ―Daryl G. Weinman
79. “You can set a boundary with your words when you are honest and when you establish a consequence for another’s hurtful actions.” ―Henry Cloud
80. “I wish i were a little girl again, because skinned knees are easier to fix than broken heart.” ―Julia Roberts
81. “One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.” ―Marty Rubin
82. “The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.” ―Max Lerner
83. “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.” ―George R.R. Martin
84. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” ―Mother Teresa
85. “A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.” ―Will Rogers
86. “The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.” ―William Shakespeare
87. “Have you ever been hurt and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again.” ―Rosa Parks
88. “When pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.” ―Jane Austen
89. “One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life, that word is love.” ―Sophocles
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90. “Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.” ―Bob Dylan
91. “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” ―Joseph Campbell
92.“改变时保持的痛苦的年代ame is greater than the pain of change.” ―Tony Robbins
93. “Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful.” ―José N. Harris
94. “Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” ―Ovid
95. “Just like there’s always time for pain, there’s always time for healing.” ―Jennifer Brown
96. “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.” – Rumi
97. “When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.” ―Kahlil Gibran
98. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.” ―Khalil Gibran
99. “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
100. “If you’re never able to tolerate a little bit of pain and discomfort, you’ll never get better.” ―Angela Duckworth
101. “Frustration, although quite painful at times, is a very positive and essential part of success.” ―Bo Bennett
102. “You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future.” ―Joel Osteen
103. “Learn to accept discomfort and uncertainty. It will eliminate most of your imagined suffering.” ―Neil Strauss
104. “There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.”―Fred Rogers
105. “Recognize reality even when you don’t like it – especially when you don’t like it.” ―Charlie Munger
106. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” ―William W. Purkey
107. “Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in your heart that only love can fill.” ―George Bernard Shaw
108. “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.” ―Orson Welles
109. “I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” ― Henry David Thoreau
110. “The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.” ― Mother Teresa
111. “My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude” ―. Warsan Shire
112. “I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” ― Woody Allen
113. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” ― Henry David Thoreau
114. “When you’re feeling lost, take heart. It’s just your brain gathering the information it needs to make good decisions.” ― Josh Kaufman
115. “No matter how much light I carry within me, there will always be times of feeling lost, being confused, seeking direction. It is the way of the human heart.” ―Joyce Rupp
116. “The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.” ― Maimonides
117. “When you are directionless like we are right now, people are looking for something to hang their hat on.” ―John Pickett
118. “I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.” ―Margaret Fuller
119. “Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.” ―Alain De Botton
120. “It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I’m still looking for that.” ― Michelle Williams
121. “You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.” ―Bob Parsons
122. “Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.” ― Lord Byron
123. “My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.” ―Olive Schreiner
124. “To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” ―Bess Myerson
125. “Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.” ―J. K. Rowling
126. “You are my sweetest downfall. I loved you first, I loved you first.” ―Regina Spektor
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127. “It’s funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word. We are screaming inside, but we can’t be heard.” ―Sarah McLachlan
128. “I will wait for you till the day I can forget you or till the day you realize you cannot forget me.” ― Herryicm
129. “Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.” ― Faraaz Kazi
130. “Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” ―Kahlil Gibran
131. “Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.” ― Merle Shain
132. “To love anything is to realize that it might be lost.” ―G.K. Chesterton
133. “How do you know that love is gone? If you said you would be there by seven, you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet—it’s gone.” ―Marlene Dietrich
134. “Love without return is like a question without an answer.” ―Alfred Lord Tennyson
135. “Love isunconditional, relationships are not.” ― Grant Gudmundson
136. “Relationships end, but they don’t end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.” ― Steve Martin
137. “So often the end of a love affair is death by a thousand cuts, so often its survival is life by a thousand stitches.” ―Robert Brault
138. “In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.” ― Wayne W. Dyer
139. “Friendship often ends in love; but love infriendship– never.” ―Charles Caleb Colton
140. “The loss of love is not nearly as painful as our resistance to accepting it is.” ―Tigress Luv
141. “Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it’s always a tough thing and hard to get over.” ―Adam Brody
142. “If love breaks more than a heart, maybe it’s a sign and time to step out.” ―Anthony Liccione
143. “We mistakenly assume that if our partners love us they will react and behave in certain ways – the ways we react and behave when we love someone.” ―John Gray
144. “Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.” ―Oprah Winfrey
145. “There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.” ― Harry Crews
146.“当我感到虚弱和疼痛走下来a one-way street, I look above and I know I’ll always be blessed with love.” ― Ray Heffernan
147. “I’m sad and blue, about nobody but you. I told you that I loved you right from the start, you told me the same and now you try to break my little heart.” ―Leon Redbone
148. “The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.” ―Ernest Hemingway
149. “You can close your eyes to the things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to the things you don’t want to feel.” ―Johnny Depp
150. “Your absence has not taught me how to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.” ― Doug Fetherling
151. “After yourbreakup, go through life slowly and stay true to what you need in each moment.” ― Lesley Robins
Frequently Asked Questions
1. How can one express their pain through hurt quotes?
You may write quotes with themes that mirror the situations in your life that caused you to feel hurt. You may read and share quotes that depict scenarios or use words that best reflect your sentiments, helping you voice your feelings of pain profoundly.
2. Can hurt quotes help someone heal from past traumas?
Yes. Writing, reading, or sharing hurt quotes lets you express your pain through words, purging your emotions and letting you achieve a catharsis. The release of pent-up feelings through words can calm you down, filling you with positivity and hope.
3. Can someone write their own hurt quotes to express their pain?
Yes. You may write hurt quotes that best communicate your feelings. No two people experience the pain the same way. Writing a personalized hurt quote for yourself is a great way to rid yourself of the melancholic emotions weighing your spirit down.
People often get hurt due to dismaying situations, heartbreak, or another person’s misbehavior. It may also traumatize others without proper support mechanisms to overcome such heart-rending periods. Although heartbreak can be an anguishful experience, a long mournful period of affliction is unhealthy and does not bring positive outcomes. Most people do not know how to navigate theirsad emotionsduring such distressful times. Often, people need external support and encouragement to get through these vulnerable times and experience joy again. These comforting feelings of hurt quotes will provide them some solace, inspire them to get over their sadness, and help them be happy again. So, scroll through and share them with your loved ones going through a difficult phase.
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References:
- Unforgiveness and your health
https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/memberarticles/unforgiveness-and-your-health - Forgiveness can improve mental and physical health.
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2017/01/ce-corner - The health benefits of forgiveness
https://wa-health.kaiserpermanente.org/forgiveness-health-benefits/
