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The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you ...

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A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

I made such a fool of myself,” she lamented.“Love does not make you a fool.”“He didn’t love me back....

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Mitch AlbomThe Time Keeper

I like American cars. And I would do nothing to hurt the U.S. auto industry.

Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as a...

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All the same, it strikes me as unfair that I still have to defend myself against her moral judgement...

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I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love...

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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.

The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but th...

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Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himsel...

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Neil GaimanFragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

Those days are gone, and good fucking riddance to them; unhappiness really meant something back then...

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We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water,...

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i am really colored & really sad sometimes & you hurt memore than i ever danced outta/ i am ready to...

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Ntozake Shangefor colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You'r...

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Those eyes had seen people weep, and had cared, and had hurt them again anyway. It’s a look that no ...

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Orson Scott CardMaps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card

I come from Toledo, Ohio, a town that has been hurt badly by the shift of the automobile business to...

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Are you hurt?""Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being wil...

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["F]or it's not possible," [Socrates] said, "for anybody to experience a greater evil than hating ar...

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You don't need your eyes to love, Right?

Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around.""Oh, they don't miss me," she said. ...

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[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not huma...

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Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

I think people tend to forget that as celebrities we are still human. We have the same emotions - we...

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I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the great...

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Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they coul...

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How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constru...

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Sherman AlexieThe Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven

Sometimes you trust someone who turns out not to be honest. There are a lot of things that happen in...

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Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn any...

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Oddly, the burned hand didn't seem to hurt much anymore; it was only numb. It would have been better...

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...it was amazing, wasn't it, how bad you could hurt when there was nothing physically wrong.

A hurt body and mind aren’t just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as...

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Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

Good! he wanted to cry out to her. Good! Because you only had to see it! I had to wear it!

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Stephen KingTwo Past Midnight: Secret Window

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back...

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It was like someone had died- like I had died. Because it had been more than just losing the truest ...

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I miss him so badly it hurts.

You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

I tell them stars have never hurt me, I wish I could say the same about people.

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Terry PratchettThe Light Fantastic

There is a limit for everything. You can't just load tons and tons of peacock feathers in a cart con...

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The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out...

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The energy of the crowd is insane. Twenty thousand people. It's the biggest jolt of adrenaline. It's...

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Naturally all of them had a sad story: too much notice, not enough, or the worst kind. Some tale abo...

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The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my...

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A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt

Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right?” I say.“No, I’m pretty sure you’re not all right.”He sh...

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I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And y...

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What a person did when they were in pain said a lot about them.pg 459

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Veronica RothCarve the Mark

You will be the first test subject, Tobias. Beatrice, however...." She smiles. "You are too injured ...

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I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my b...

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The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and...

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It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time.

No one has got close enough to use or abuse me, and even if they did, I wouldn't get too emotional a...

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There's a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security with one person. If you...

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Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain. The appropriate r...

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Alain de BottonThe Course of Love

That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurti...

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I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

And this time as the lashes come, try to think about the pain, instead of against it, because there ...

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He honestly believed, for an instant, that what he'd heard was music-a tune piped, a burble of notes...

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I cannot hide my anger to spare you guilt, nor hurt feelings, nor answering anger; for to do so insu...

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Audre LordeSister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I...

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The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon b...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but ...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

It's always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it's just hilarious.

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anx...

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Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

You don't stop loving someone just because they hurt you" he said. "It would certainly make things e...

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I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't thi...

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A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognit...

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When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

We can't pack down hurt, nor can we off-load it to someone else while maintaining our authenticity a...

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With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep sile...

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They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to ...

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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

The only thing worst than being hurt is everyone knowing that yoou're hurt.

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Carrie FisherPostcards from the Edge

Look, it's easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire," Jace said. "They're no smarter than anyone els...

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Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long tim...

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I know a womanwho keeps buying puzzleschinesepuzzlesblockswirespieces that finally fitinto some orde...

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Something else is hurting you - that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or sc...

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Charles BukowskiTales of Ordinary Madness

Whatever the cause, I could not meet his sunshine with cloud. If this were my last moment with him, ...

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Many queer and trans people live - and lived - in our prison and jails, in our homeless shelters, in...

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When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.

But the thing is that, in the end, we each must decide how comfortable we are with how much we hurt ...

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Chris AbaniThe Face: Cartography of the Void

I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.

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Christina AguileraChristina Aguilera: "Back to Basics"

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger ...

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Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved...

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All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in p...

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Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress...

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And dimly she realised one of the great laws of the human soul: that when the emotional soul receive...

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D. H. LawrenceLady Chatterley's Lover

emotionless tone hurting as much as the news

'Star Trek' is the McDonald's of science fiction; it's fast food storytelling. Every problem is like...

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Only I don't close my eyes these days, because it hurts too much when I open them.