Hurtful Quotes

“When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Don't waste your time trying to provide people with proof of deceit, in order to keep their love, win their love or salvage their respect for you. The truth is this: If they care they will go out of their way to learn the truth. If they don't then they really don't value you as a human being. The moment you have to sell people on who you are is the moment you let yourself believe that every good thing you have ever done or accomplished was invisible to the world. And, it is not!”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The old Amy, the girl of the big laugh and the easy ways, literally shed herself, a pile of skin and soul on the floor, and stepped this new, brittle, bitter Amy... a razor-wire knot daring me to unloop her, and I was not up to the job with my thick, numb, nervous fingers. Country fingers. Flyover fingers untrained in the intricate, dangerous work of 'solving Amy'. When I'd hold up the bloody stumps, she'd sigh and turn to her secret mental notebooks on which she tallied all my deficiencies, forever noting disappointments, frailties, shortcomings.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“You’re too sensitive’ victims of sexual abuse are told over and over by those whose reality depends on being insensitive. Most adults who have been in the victim role cringe when anyone tells them they are sensitive. In fact, sensitivity is a lovely trait and one to be cherished in any human being.”
― Renee Fredrickson, Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse

“It was crucial to understand
whether that moment was
immensely hurtful or was
awfully affectionate for me.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“You need to keep hurting
until you realise
you never needed to hurt
in the first place.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Can't people do hurtful things, sometimes, and not even know they're doing them?”
― Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger

“If he goes to sleep peacefully knowing that your heart is hurt, beware of him.”
― Jyoti Patel

“You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true.”
― Dan Chaon, Stay Awake

“Sorry” we all say “Sorry” for the wrong things we say and do. But do we always think about the people we love dearly who we say hurtful things to? I don’t think so because if we had think about it sorry wouldn't have become such a popular word today. Sometimes we say so much and act immature as adult. We didn't take the time to realize how much hurt and pain we put that individual in we never took the time to think of the reaction, the feelings and the consequence that we might have to face if what we do turns out to be a matter of life and death.!!!”
― Napz Cherub Pellazo

“We are not the stories that others hear about is, we are the stories that we know about ourselves.”
― Lauren Kasper (me)

“Some days are not as beautiful and some nights not as wonderful, you need to be careful not worry about the hurtful things of life, just focus on what is meaningful.”
― Gift Gugu Mona

“You think what I said to you was hurtful? You should hear the things I kept to myself.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Are you really going to be so loyal to someone you don't even have?”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

“Honesty hurts and depending on the situation you should really think twice about your words. They can be hurtful and have a bad influence. Once they leave your mouth they can cause allot of soul damage and heartache.”
― Lily Amis, Leo Mousi, Refugees Unwanted!

“He was capable of hurting Ludens even to the point sometimes of deliberate malice.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“Being with someone who is not sure of you is dangerous to your mind, heart and soul.”
― Jyoti Patel

“She taught me all about happiness and in her demise I learnt the existence of pain”
― Kshanasurya

“She left me by sowing her memories on my soul
and I harvest the pain writing about her, as my words cripple and crumble like my heart”
― Kshanasurya

“I am not a child to be fought over.'

Nesta's pulse pounded throughout her body, 'Do you not remember the war? What we encountered? Do you not remember the Cauldron kidnapping you, bringing you into the heart of Hybern's camp?'

'I do,' Elain said coldly. 'And I remember Feyre rescuing me.'

Roaring erupted in Nesta's head.

For a heartbeat, it appeared that Elain might say something to soften the words. But Nesta cut her off, seething at the pity about to be thrown her way. 'Look who decided to grow claws after all,' she crooned. 'Maybe you've become interesting at last, Elain.'

Nesta saw the blow land, like a physical impact, in Elain's face, her posture. No one spoke, though shadows gathered in the corners of the room, like snakes preparing to strike.

Elain's eyes brightened with pain. Something imploded in Nesta's chest at that expression. She opened her mouth, as if it could somehow be undone. But Elain said, 'I went into the Cauldron, too, you know. And it captured me. And yet somehow all you think of is what my trauma did to you.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Is it atikraman [Hurtful karma] if we eat, cut our hair or brush our teeth? No, it is not like that. Anger-pride-deceit-greed is considered atikraman [Hurtful karma]. If you do pratikraman [Ask for forgiveness], they will all go away.”
― Dada Bhagwan

“Somewhere in the midst of a great story was a profound untruth so dark, that if true, would have wiped the direct line of Detective Frank Geyer’s future generations of family off the face of the earth.”
― J.D. Crighton, Detective in the White City: The Real Story of Frank Geyer

“Maybe we swore we would never be harsh with our children the way others were harsh with us. Then, just when they need us most - when they act up and misbehave and call us names and son on - we get angry and punish them, or feel hurt and block them out. We momentarily forget how fragile our little ones are, just as they forget about cooperation or sharing or calming down and following the rules.”
― Lawrence J. Cohen, Playful Parenting: An Exciting New Approach to Raising Children That Will Help You Nurture Close Connections, Solve Behavior Problems, and Encourage Confidence

“Be excited for each new day. Sometimes hurt from our past, try to make its way into the start of a new day. We cannot live the past, only in our minds, so let go, no matter how hurtful. God wants us all to live in abundance, glorifying his love and our love for others. This day is a brand new day, a God given gift.”
― Ron Baratono

“This is not a time to cast blame. Those who do so may be hiding behind the excuse of helping but it is a power play and actually quite hurtful.”
― Charles F Glassman

“She was the only poison I chose to drink”
― Kshanasurya

“It's okay to feel emotions. It's part of life. It's one of the many things that is Ravia's guidance. Everyone goes through strife, through grief, through hard times. It's what we do during the worst that matters.”
― Jennifer West, The Legend of Acacia Vitak

“I can see that you're mourning the loss of many things, but I want to help you. I want to help you discover your potential. Don't you want that? Do you really want to sit in this room, crying about what you could have been or done?”
― Jennifer West, The Legend of Acacia Vitak

“What do you know?' Nesta breathed. 'You're just a half-wild beast with the nerve to bark orders at all hours of the day and night. Keep it up and someday- someday, Feyre, you'll have no one left to remember you or to care that you ever existed.'
...
I'd heard the words before- and knew she only repeated them because I'd flinched the first time she spat them. They still burned anyway.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Truth was more hurtful than a blade. But he'd given it to her as she'd done for him, and for that she was grateful.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen