Adversity Quotes

"What do you say when you feel your life is taken right from your chest, even though I miraculously find myself still breathing?"

- Jason F. Wright

"Kinda pointless to fight for what you want when what you want continues to break your heart."

- Molly McAdams

"Don’t hurt my feelings anymore. I left you my roses and you gave me your thorns."

- Godwin Delali Adadzie

"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

"He knew what it was like to love one who did not–or could not–love you back. But he’d had no choice. None of them did."

- Melissa de la Cruz

"I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart—so hard, it hurt me."

- Sarah Waters

"The moment you realize your eyes hurt not because of rubbing them, but because of the tears you wasted, on him."

- A. Kamalei

"He might not want to hurt me, but that doesn’t mean he won’t."

- Holly Black

"Our memories are lodged in my mind like pieces of broken glass that hurt when I breathe."

- P.S. Scott

"Few things burned men as much as the cold side of a woman that was once warm."

- Karl Kristian Flores

"But look how we broke each other in the end. Who could have killed me better than you?"

- Eloghosa Osunde

"When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death."

- Dennis Quaid

"As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong."

- Tabitha Suzuma

"A void in my chest was beginning to fill with anger. Quiet, defeated anger that guaranteed me the right to my hurt, that believed no one could possibly understand that hurt."

- Rachel Sontag

"Being broken-hearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing’s wrong, but every breath hurts."

- Greg Behrendt

"Hurt is a bruise on the outside. Harm is a bruise on the inside."

- Tiffany Reisz

"Most marks people leave are just scars"

- John Green

"Well-chosen words create pain that lasts longer than a flogging."

- L.E. Modesitt Jr.

"Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day."

- Markus Zusak

"You see, I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me."

- Scott Fitzgerald

"Hurt’s a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don’t change facts. You have been selfish."

- Stephen King

"Sometimes, being hurt too many times, doesn’t make you stronger, it destroy who you were, who you wanted to be and makes who you are today."

- Rafael Prado

"The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren’t the ones people see on the outside. They’re the ones that make us bleed internally."

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

"Something else is hurting you – that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think."

- Charles Bukowski

"Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can break hearts."

- Tim Minchin

"Hurt is worse than anger, you know. Anger dwells in the head, then fades. Hurt lingers in the soul. It rearranges your feelings without your permission. It blinds you."

- Daniel Black

"In life, there are wounds that like leprosy slowly eat away at the soul in solitude."

- Bae Suah

"They were little things, but it was always the little things that rubbed a person raw. That hurt the most."

- Molly Fader

"Grief is never something you get over"

"It’s so much darker when a light goes out"