That Hurt Quotes

Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.
- Maya Angelou

That hurt querida, that really hurt
- Meg Cabot

People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.
- Tom Arnold

I wanted to tell you everything. And that hurt because some things were too scary. Some things even I didn't understand. How could I tell someonesomeone I was really talking to for the first timeeverything I was thinking?
I couldn't. It was too soon.
- Jay Asher

Hey, Vader, keep your Jedi mind tricks to yourself. That hurt! (Jesse)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

...It's not the lies that hurt people. It's the willingness of everyone else to believe them...
Aiden, Upon the Midnight Clear by Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Well... he lets it ruin his life. He gets so obsessed with going after the one thing that hurt him that he loses sight of everything else. He becomes isolated from everyone and everything. Paranoid. He feels like he can't trust anyone around him ever. In the end, he loses everything, even his life. And for what? Total stupidity, if you ask me.
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

Oh, my God, are you okay? (Syd)
You ever nick yourself while shaving? (Steele)
Yeah. (Syd)
You know the burn you get that hurts like hell? (Steele)
Yeah. (Syd)
This is nothing like that. It's a lot worse. (Steele)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

You okay? (Grace)
Oh, yeah. I'm just fine considering the fact I've walked through burning fires that hurt less than my groin does right now. (Julian)
I said I was sorry. Okay, can you reach the pedals? (Grace)
I'd like to reach your pedals...(Julian)
Julian! Would you concentrate? (Grace)
All right. I'm concentrating. (Julian)
I don't mean on my breasts. (He dropped his hungry gaze to her lap.) Or there, either. (Grace)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon

I've just been imagining that it was really me you wanted after all and that I was to stay here for ever and ever. It was a great comfort while it lasted. But the worst of imagining things is that the time comes when you have to stop and that hurts.
- L M Montgomery

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
- E M Forster

I don't know why I feel so wounded with Kartik's obvious infatuation with Pippa. There's no romance between us. There's nothing that tethers us but this dark secret neither of us wants. It's not Kartik's longing that hurts. It's my own. It's knowing that I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.
- Libba Bray

Ready?" Jaime echoed. "Yes, yes, I am ready. I am ready to drink a lot of liquids and lie on the sofa moaning faintly all day long. That is what I am ready for. I cannot engage in physical activity of any sort or my head will fall right off. Is that what you want Nick? Because if so, I find that hurtful.
- Sarah Rees Brennan

I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament.
- Tim Buckley

Those things that hurt, instruct.
- Benjamin Franklin

a joy that hurts with sadness
a sadness that is pleasurable
a pleasure full of terror
a terror that excites
an excitement that calms
a calmness that frightens.
- Aidan Chambers

I rotated my eyeballand, goddamnit, even that hurtto see the leader of my bodyguards peering at me.
- Karen Chance

I dodged behind Mac for cover and refused to take the bait. I glanced at my nonexistent watch. 'Oops, look at the time. Guess I have to be going now. Let's not do this again sometime, okay?'
Before I could move, Pritkin was there, jamming the medallion into the skin of my upper arm.'Ow!'He looked at me expectantly. I glared at him. 'That hurt!'
What do you see?'
A big red mark,
- Karen Chance

I started to roll my eyes, but that hurt. The right one was pressed so firmly against the peephole, you see.
- Alice Clayton

Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.
- Pat Conroy

We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping, agonal breaths, hospice nurses, scars and bruises and scabs, and how skin papers shortly after a person passes. We will nod in agreement that it is as much an honor to witness a person leave this world as it is to watch a person come into it.
- Kelly Corrigan

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.
- Stephen Covey

You can't ever stop thinking something quick enough. Something that hurts always gets the knife in too fast for you to slam a lid on it and shove it away.
- Lilith Saintcrow

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax.
- Thomas R Dewar

Failure and things of this sort - you can take it one of two ways. You can either let that hurt you and really affect the way that you live your life in the future, or you can use that as an opportunity for growth.
- Matt Emmons

The ones that hurt the most always say the least.
- Fannie Flagg

Ow!" said Horace as the Ranger's fingers probed and poked around the bruise.
Did that hurt?" Halt asked, and Horace looked at him with exasperation.
Of course it did," he said sharply. "That's why I said 'ow!
- John Flanagan

Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.
- Ian Fleming

Nothing embarrassed her. I admired that so much, because everything embarrassed me, and that hurt me.
- Jonathan Safran Foer

...we got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love.
- James Frey

Come on, baby." Paris combed his fingers through her hair. "Look past my terrible personality and hideous looks and throw me a bone. Teach me how to woo you properly."
She snorted. "I'd argue the hideous looks part."
"But not the terrible personality? Ouch. That hurts, baby.
- Gena Showalter

Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes... and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.
- James Alan Gardner

The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.
- Steven Spielberg

But sometimes we has to be thankful for the things that hurt us,' I said, 'cause sometimes God does things that hurts us but they help somebody else.
- Ron Hall

Being a successful couple was learning what you were willing to compromise on, and what you weren't; learning when to stand your ground, and when to give it up; what was truly important enough to fight over, and what was just you being pissy. You learned each other's hot buttons, the places that hurt, or angered, when you pressed them. Love makes you learn where all the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them, or how to set them off.
- Laurell K Hamilton

He snorted. "They were probably scared."
"Scared!" For some reason, that hurt, just a little. She felt her lower lip wobble. "I'm not that bad, am I?"
"Worse," he said cheerfully. "You're hell on wheels. You're just lucky I like hot rods
- Linda Howard

It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.
- Kin Hubbard

And we'd look at each other the way you do when you see someone on the street you think you recognize, but not quite. Someone you wish with all your heart were there but who is actually just a stranger. And you feel a kind of deep longing that hurts like a huge gash and your inability to fix it leaves you frustrated and angry and bone-deep lonely.
- Michele Jaffe

I do know this. It's the things we run from that hurt us the most. Brad Sturdevant
- Norma Johnston

...you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy
- Ken Kesey

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.
- Ken Kesey

He knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance... He knows there's a painful side, but he won't let the pain blot out the humor no more'n he'll let the humor blot out the pain.
- Ken Kesey

Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.
- Ken Kesey

People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it's the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.
- Markus Zusak

I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.
- E L Konigsburg

Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.
- Hanif Kureishi

I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.
- K D Lang

It is life that hurts you not death.
- Martine Leavitt

It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.
- Oscar Levant

I am, a shadow
that grows longer as the sun
moves, drawn out
on a thread of wonder.
If I bear burdens
they begin to be remembered
as gifts, goods, a basket
of bread that hurts
my shoulders but closes me
in fragrance. I can
eat as I go.
("Stepping Westward")
- Denise Levertov

The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm lost in all this sadness, and so are they.
- Ashly Lorenzana

Instead of trade policy that is beneficial to American businesses and workers as well as our trade partners, we have a flawed trade policy that hurts all parties.
- Stephen F Lynch

I didn't even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and, weirdly, that hurt the most.
- Rooney Mara

...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.
- Steve Martin

If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet understand when and how people are hurt. He doesn't understand the subtleties of slights and pains, that it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.
- Steve Martin

If she wasn't his best friend...
There really was no point in finishing that thought. She was and it was his job as the man in her life to kick the living shit out of any asshole that hurt her.
- R L Mathewson

He lit his pipe again, smiling to himself quietly, with that painful smile of his, as though he were enjoying a joke that hurt him.
- W Somerset Maugham

I've learned that hurting you feels infinitely worse than being hurt myself.
- Emma Mclaughlin

I lurve you, circus freak," Cabel says.
It almost hurts to hear him say that.
I lurve you, too, you big lumpy monster man," Janie says.
That hurts even more to say.
- Lisa Mcmann

It's so damn easy to judge. But as Paolo knows from his niece, no matter how much you want someone back in your life, sometimes it's the letting-them-back-in part that hurts the most
- Brad Meltzer

You stole my bouquet? From the kistune?"
"I was very careful-"
"Do you realize what you've done?" Stefan shook Damon.
"Ow. That hurts! Do you want to break my neck.
- L J Smith

There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt.
- Tillie Olsen

I am proud of who you were, David-that hurt person who refused to "die." And I'm more caring, giving, fixing person, the guy with the same sense of humor and that deft, sensitive touch. Good on you, David I love you.
- Dave Pelzer

The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.
- Fernando Pessoa

The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.
- Fernando Pessoa

Is your butt buzzing?
Cole, you have the worst timing! I jerked upright, tring to pull my phone out of my pocket and managing instead to bang my elbow against the wall.
Ow! Oh, shit that hurts! You know, the guy who decided it should be a funny bone was just a freaking masochist. Or is it a sadist? I always get those mixed up.
- Jennifer Rardin

The man that put that hurt look in your eyes, could be worth everything, or nothing at all.
- Nora Roberts

And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.
- Mitt Romney

The problem is neutrality ends in poverty, neutrality ends in choices that hurt people's lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations that are there to help young girls make good choices, not to tell them what the good choice is. That is absolutely unconscionable.
- Rick Santorum

Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes.
- Jeanette Winterson

You have a piercing."
"So I do."
"Didn't that hurt?"
"A bit.
- Cherise Sinclair

Sentry: King, may I speak?
Creon: Your very voice distresses me.
Sentry: Are you sure that it is my voice, and not your conscience?
Creon: By God, he wants to analyze me now!
Sentry: It is not what I say, but what has been done, that hurts you.
Creon: You talk too much.
- Sophocles

Sometimes we have to face the things that hurt us most. Maybe you won't heal till you do. You haven't yet." They both knew that was true. "You can't move ahead until you bury the past.
- Danielle Steel

Who will wear a shoe that hurts him, because the shoe-maker tells him 'tis well made?
- Algernon Sydney

It is my belief that it is not the fact that he traveled as much as he did during the past few months as much as what he said and how he said it that hurt him.
- Robert Teeter

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
- Emma Thompson

...included in this grief were the hidden rooms of his life. He told me that hurt was bad enough and that I should never add loneliness to it. That's why we get together and dance, he said... we got together and moved our bodies because it exorcised our pain.
- Monique Truong

I smashed his hand as hard as I could with the Wiffle bat.
"Ow!" he screamed.
Carson was rubbing his red palm, inspecting it for damage. "That hurt," he shrieked. "You really hurt me."
"Right back at you," I said. "Good-bye Carson."
He frowned, massaging his hand, the big baby. "I just wanted to end this nicely."
"Yeah?" I cocked the bat up to hit him again. "Well, this time you don't get what you want.
- Rachel Vail

I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.
- Abraham Verghese

When you first fall in love, it's supposed to be awful. Awful, uncertain, scary, wonderful, confusing, all at once. That's how you know it's real. You have to care deeply. Passionately. That hurts.
- Nancy Werlin

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.
- Katharine Whitehorn

I see you. I will be careful with the places that hurt.
- Eileen Wilks