Awareness Quotes

"If we aren’t capable of being hurt, we aren’t capable of feeling joy."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise."

- Francis Bacon

"Isn’t it always the things that you can’t see that hurt you?"

- Katie McGarry

"What you don’t know won’t hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you very much."

- Margaret Atwood

"To hurt is as human as to breathe."

- J. K. Rowling

"I decide this is just A Bad Day. We all get them, because grief doesn’t care how many years it’s been."

- Sara Barnard

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

- Carl Jung

"There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt."

- Erma Bombeck

"Sometimes even stuff you expect to happen can still hurt."

- Jennifer Brown

"You can close your eyes to things you don’t want to see, but you can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel."

- Johnny Depp

"Wouldn’t it be nice if we could get rid of hurtful feelings and memories the same way we so easily send a bad picture sailing into our computer’s trash can?"

- Liz Fenton

"Sometimes, it is not the memories that remain that hurt the worst. It is the ones you know you have already forgot."

- Kimberly Marie

"Smiles sometimes are just a disguise of the so much pains and hurts the heart is hiding"

- Oma Akuma

"No one has the patent on human suffering. People hurt in different ways and for different reasons."

- Pat Conroy

"I like to eat and I love the diversity of foods."

- David Soul

"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."

- O. Henry

"The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?"

- John Lennon

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."

- John Lennon

"There's no other time but the present. Anything else is a waste of time."

- John Lennon

"The more real you get, the more unreal the world gets."

- John Lennon

"Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground."

- John Lennon

"Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it."

- John Lennon

"There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…"

- John Lennon

"I read so many comments here about difficulty moving on from a death and it pains my heart. We live life as if death will never come near us, the only sure thing to come in life. and so when it does, we suffer so much, for so long, forgetting that in next to no time we will be gone too. We are all the wind, I hope this helps."

- J.D. Oldenburg

"February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure."

- Gladys Hasty Carroll

"If you meet 29th February, think of something unique, for it is the only day that defines a year as a leap year. It is the only day that makes February truly unique."

- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

"I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more of they get older; then it dawned on me they are cramming for their final exam."

- George Carlin

"If the world were perfect, it wouldn’t be."

- Yogi Berra

"Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."

- Anais Nin

"Before you can see the light, you have to deal with the darkness."

- Unknown