Healing Words: A Powerful Collection of Inspirational Quotes for Hurt Feelings

"To heal a wound, you must stop scratching it."

- Paulo Coelho

"When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t."

- Louis C. K.

"You let time pass. That’s the cure. You survive the days. You float like a rabid ghost through the weeks. You cry and wallow and lament and scratch your way back up through the months. And then one day, you find yourself alone on a bench in the sun, and you close your eyes, lean your head back and realize you’re okay."

- Cheryl Strayed

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Forgive those who have hurt you."

- Les Brown

"Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you."

- Shannon L. Alder

"You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you’re still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here! You have been delayed but not denied. You are not a victim, you are a victor. You have a history of victory."

- Steve Maraboli

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up again."

- Vince Lombardi

"If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain — in time you will move through your pain."

- Bryant McGill

"Don’t lock yourself away from those who care about you because you think you’ll hurt them or they’ll hurt you. What point is there in being human if you don’t let yourself feel anything?"

- Sabaa Tahir

"The good news is you survived. The bad news is you’re hurt and no one can heal you but yourself."

- Clementine von Radics

"What hurts us is what heals us."

- Paulo Coelho

"It is when we hurt that we learn."

- Steve Maraboli

"Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists."

- Victor Frankl

"You can’t hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I’m in love with you, Mara. I love you. No matter what you do."

- Michelle Hodkin

"You know it’s the people who we love the most who can hurt us the most."

- Cassandra Clare

"With extreme pain, comes extreme power to build back your world."

- Hiral Nagda

"Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it."

- J.K. Rowling

"Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will."

- Cheryl Strayed

"When an emotional injury takes place, the body begins a process as natural as the healing of a physical wound. Let the process happen. Trust that nature will do the healing. Know that the pain will pass, and, when it passes, you will be stronger, happier, and more sensitive and aware."

- Mel Colgrove

"One of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul."

- Brigitte Nicole

"It hurts because it matters."

- John Green

"Handling our suffering is an art. If we know how to suffer, we suffer much less, and we’re no longer afraid of being overwhelmed by the suffering inside."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well."

- Lewis B. Smedes

"Vulnerability is about being brave enough to show up again and again. Even when it’s hard. Even when there’s been hurt."

- Lauren Fortenberry

"Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal."

- Vironika Tugaleva

"To smile to our pain is the wisest, the most intelligent, the most beautiful thing we can do. There is no better way."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"There are no easy answers. No quick solutions. No clear paths for resolving the hardest in life. But we can choose forgiveness. We can choose grace. No matter what, we can still choose love."

- Lauren Fortenberry

"It’s one of the toughest things in the world when somebody has hurt you, and you can find within yourself the strength to begin the whole process of forgiveness. And it turns out to be the gift to you, not so much the gift to the person you’re forgiving."

- Dr. William Orr

"If you never heal from what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you."

- Tamara Kulish

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."

- Washington Irving

"Go to the place inside that hurts. The part that’s lonely or sad. Your broken heart. Your bruised ego. The part of you that worries it will always be this way. Go there now and silently repeat: May you be happy. May you be safe. May you be filled with love. You’re not alone."

- Jason Garner

"Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"Welcome to the world. You will hurt the people you love the most. You will say stupid things and embarrass yourself repeatedly. You will crash your car and lose your wallet before the bill comes. You will get sick, sad, and lonely."

- Markus Almond

"I push people away because I’m afraid I might not heal again if I get hurt. I push them away and paint my walls so good they can’t recognize me anymore. I don’t give people a chance."

- Inspired by Bisma Ijaz

"I admire people who could have turned cold after everything they’ve been through but still choose love anyway. There’s strength in that."

- Keneilwe Dr. Mhlanga

"She never seemed shattered; to me, she was a breathtaking mosaic of the battles she’s won."

- Matt Baker

"If you focus on the hurt, you will continue to suffer. If you focus on the lesson, you will continue to grow."

- @MasteringLawofAttraction

"Healing never came when I clawed in search of it. Instead, it came when I was willing to listen to the lesson the pain was here to teach me."

- Lauren Fortenberry

"I hurt myself today to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing that’s real."

- Johnny Cash

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering."

- Paulo Coelho

"Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!"

- Jocelyn Soriano

"Still, being able to feel pain was good, he thought. It’s when you can’t even feel pain anymore that you’re in real trouble."

- Haruki Murakami

"I always hated when my scars started to fade because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting."

- Jodi Picoult

"I’m not upset that you lied to me; I’m upset that from now on, I can’t believe you."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"We need never be ashamed of our tears."

- Charles Dickens

"No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn’t stop for your grief."

- Faraaz Kazi

"Things that break— be they bones, hearts, or promises— can be put back together but will never really be whole."

- Jodi Picoult

"There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them and let them hurt me."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"I still own my heart, which I know because it hurts so much."

- Emilie Autumn

"I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers."

- Haruki Murakami

"You can destroy my body, but not my soul."

- Paulo Coelho

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. They prefer suffering that is familiar to the unknown."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Failure hurts but passes quickly. Regret hurts forever."

- Shane Parrish

"Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you’d been before the fall."

- Jodi Picoult

"That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you."

- Lilith Saintcrow

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

- Michel de Montaigne

"The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didn’t work out the first time."

- Amanda Howells

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

- Mother Teresa

"Love more, not less. Will you take a hit? Of course, you will. Do it anyway."

- Bob Goff

"Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly."

- Lawrence G. Lovasik

"As long as we carry a grudge against someone, that person goes on haunting us in a way – we give them power over us. We are not free."

- Osho

"Don’t hold to anger, hurt, or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love."

- Leo Buscaglia

"A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"We are not our stories, our dramas, or our wrongdoings. We are love."

- Gabby Bernstein

"The pain of yesterday is the strength of today."

- Paulo Coelho

"I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning."

- Haruki Murakami

"If you feel pain, be attentive to it; don’t do anything. Attention is the great sword; it cuts everything. You simply pay attention to the pain."

- Osho

"We are not in control of pain. No matter how hard we try. Not of the cause or the duration – only the response."

- Ryan Holiday

"There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth."

- Fred Rogers

"Someday, we’ll forget the hurt, the reason we cried and who caused us pain. And we’ll finally realize that the secret of being free is not revenge, but letting things unfold in their own way and own time."

- Paulo Coelho

"The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been."

- Jodi Picoult

"The trick to healing from suffering, I think, is deciding that the pain was worth it."

- Aella

"If you see somebody that’s hurting, don’t look away. And if you are hurting, even though it might be hard, try to find that bravery within yourself to dive deep and go tell somebody."

- Lady Gaga

"The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it."

- Nicholas Sparks

"Some changes look negative on the surface, but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Use setbacks in life as an opportunity to become a bigger and better person. Don’t wallow."

- Shane Parrish

"There is hope, and when I feel like there isn’t hope, my brain is lying to me."

- John Green

"In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Embrace your suffering tenderly."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Tears are handy for washing away troubling and sad feelings. But when you grow up, you’ll learn that there are things so sad, they can never be washed away by tears. That there are painful memories that should never be washed away. So people who are truly strong laugh when they want to cry. They endure all of the pain and sorrow while laughing with everybody else."

- Hideaki Sorachi

"The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open."

- Rumi

"It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it."

- Seneca

"You aren’t really being rejected – you’re being redirected."

- Mel Robbins

"And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in."

- Haruki Murakami

"If you ignore a deep wound, it gets infected. Same is true of psychological wounds. You have to treat a wound to heal it."

- Neil Strauss

"Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Only in ending is there a new beginning."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

"What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle."

- Rumi

"Whatever rejection you’re facing right now is a gift."

- Mel Robbins

"No one and nothing can free you but your own understanding."

- Ajahn Chah

"Don’t allow your wounds to turn you into a person you are not."

- Paulo Coelho

"My heart will still ache sometimes. Maybe more often than not. I think it’s possible to be healed without feeling whole."

- Monica Hesse

"Because of your difficult experience, you will become stronger, wiser, and more compassionate toward those having a hard time."

- Haemin Sunim

"The measure of who we are is how we react to something that does not go our way."

- Gregg Popovich

"Learn from your past, but don’t be controlled by it."

- Mel Robbins

"If you are going to heal in a magnificent way, you have to feel magnificent."

- Joe Dispenza

"Gradually, the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn’t taking place."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but— I hope— into a better shape."

- Charles Dickens

"A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed."

- Byron Katie

"We cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. We must stand up and move on to the next action."

- Haruki Murakami

"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

"You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world…but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices."

- John Green

"To hurt is as human as to breathe."

- J. K. Rowling

"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."

- Mark Twain

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

- Bob Marley

"From hurt comes pain, from pain comes change. If it hurts enough, change will happen."

- Tripp Evans

"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on."

- Henry Rollins

"The past does not define me, it ignites me. The past is not a piece of me, it has placed me"

- Ricky Maye

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it."

- Conrad Joseph

"Work like you don’t need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you’ve never been hurt."

- Mark Twain

"Power up from that pain to conquer the next summit of your life."

- Hiral Nagda

"Live and you’ll be hurt, be hurt and you’ll learn to live."

- Abhijit Naskar

"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."

- William Penn

"They can hurt you, but they can only break you if you let them."

- J.W. Lynne

"Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you."

- Mary Tyler Moore

"You never know how strong you are… until being strong is the only choice you have."

- Cayla Mills

"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

- Carl Jung

"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

"You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little."

- Napoleon Hill

"Just because one person’s problem is less traumatic than another’s doesn’t mean they’re required to hurt less."

- J. A. Redmerski

"And maybe that was love. Being so vulnerable and allowing someone else in so far they could hurt you, but they also give you everything."

- Christine Feehan

"The deepest wounds aren’t the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people."

- Isobelle Carmody

"You decide for yourself when it will hurt."

- Per Petterson

"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings."

- Lao Tzu

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

- Tim Minchin

"The words that we say last but a moment, yet the impact of those words knows no moment."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"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

"Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain, because life’s greatest lessons are learned through pain."

- Nagato

"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

"Hearts live by being wounded."

- Oscar Wilde

"Love doesn’t hurt, what hurts is the lack of love."

- Augusto Branco

"As long as it still hurts, it isn’t love yet."

- Silvia Hartmann

"Prioritize healing over history."

- Ebonee Davis

"Time doesn’t heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them."

- Shannon Alder

"You don’t stop loving someone just because they hurt you. It would certainly make things easier if you did."

- Brandon Sanderson

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

- Britney Spears

"I’m not really sure why. But…do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don’t think so. That’s what makes the betrayal hurt so much – pain, frustration, anger.. and I still loved her. I still do."

- Brandon Sanderson

"Don’t chase after the people that hurt you. Replace them with people that care."

- Kaoru Shinmon

"Love means exposing yourself to the pains of being hurt, deeply hurt by someone you trust."

- Renita Weems

"Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in your heart that only love can fill."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love."

- Clive Barker

"Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime."

- Mineko Iwasaki

"We hurt so much because we have lost a part of ourselves. If we have loved much, we must have given much also, and when everything’s over, we feel as though we have lost everything."

- Jocelyn Soriano

"I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine."

- Emily Brontë

"If they keep hurting you, love them, and stay or love yourself and leave."

- Sonya Parker

"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."

- Frederick Douglass

"From hurt comes pain, from pain, comes change. If it hurts enough, change will happen."

- Tripp Evans

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

- Greg Behrendt

"If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong."

- Masaru Emoto

"Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?"

- Jacqueline Carey

"In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show."

- Janet Fitch

"Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts."

- Penelope Sweet

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

- Dennis Quaid

"Never take that person back in life who left you."

- Garima Soni

"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."

- Max Lerner

"I love you. “Is not enough to make up for the pain that never heals and starts again at the slightest word."

- James Hilton

"When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward."

- Hermann Hesse

"Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word."

- George R. R. Martin

"If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind."

- Shannon L. Alder

"Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence."

- Antoine de Saint

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

- Madeleine L'Engle

"You’ll stop hurting when you stop hoping."

- Guillaume Musso

"When someone stabs you it’s not your fault that you feel pain."

- Louise Penny

"To solve all problems, be here, in reality, now. Recognize that they exist only in a past or a future."

- Byron Katie

"Pain is temporary. The pain you feel today is only to get the strength to face tomorrow."

- Sivaprakash Sidhu

"The only person that deserves a special place in your life is someone that never made you feel like you were an option in theirs."

- Shannon L. Alder

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

- Wallace Stegner

"Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and running its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do, the only thing-is run."

- Lauren Oliver

"You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it."

- J.K. Rowling

"One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects."

- Marty Rubin

"The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so."

- Tammara Webber

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

- Nicholas Sparks

"Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love."

- Leo Buscaglia

"It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin."

- Susan Sontag

"Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive."

- Moïra Fowley-Doyle

"Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world."

- Julian Gough

"What distresses us is less the circumstances we find ourselves in and more the energy we expend in resisting them."

- Haemin Sunim

"Your scars are battle wounds, but you don’t see them that way. Yet."

- Tammara Webber

"I can’t know how you’ve been hurt, but using your hurt to believe the wrong things ain’t good either."

- Pepper Basham

"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I couldn’t stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day."

- Becca Fitzpatrick

"I don’t like to hold back, because that’s how you hurt yourself."

- Chester Bennington

"Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you."

- Natsuki Takaya

"Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?"

- Jennifer E. Smith

"Look back at the mirror and try loving the person in it. Do that thing you’ve been wanting to do but have been shying away from. Believe in your vision."

- B. Elae

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

- Calvin Coolidge

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

- Molly McAdams

"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

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

- Rafael Prado

"It is not the pain. It’s who it came from."

- Drishti Bablani

"The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other."

- Ashleigh Brilliant

"I had become a devotee to a religion of my own creation. Its most integral ritual was maintaining a precise calm especially when angry, when hurt, when terrified."

- Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

"Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow."

- L. Ron Hubbard

"That’s the funny thing about old hurts―they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you."

- Lilith Saintcrow

"Nobody ever wanted to get hurt. But it still happened didn’t it? No matter how careful you were, no matter how smart your puns. It happened all the time."

- Melinda Braun

"Did I really want to stay on this road longer, knowing it was only going to end in devastation?"

- Becca Fitzpatrick

"Learn to accept discomfort and uncertainty. It will eliminate most of your imagined suffering."

- Neil Strauss

"One benefit of a life crisis is increased self-awareness."

- Dr. David Hawkins

"Stop waiting for them to fix you. They are the thing that broke you."

- Mairéad McCarron

"It is precisely in times of immunity from care that the soul should toughen itself beforehand for occasions of greater stress, and it is while fortune is kind that it should fortify itself against her violence."

- Seneca

"The best revenge is living well without you."

- Joyce Carol Oates

"Despair can never be dissolved through escape, but by observing it."

- Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Recognize reality even when you don’t like it— especially when you don’t like it."

- Charlie Munger

"Those who really love you don’t mean to hurt you, and if they do, you can’t see it in their eyes, but it hurts them too."

- Holly Black

"When I’m in a phase of real turmoil or the anxiety is very strong, it feels like the anxiety is never going to end, and it does."

- Emma Stone

"Those who really love you don’t mean to hurt you and if they do, you can’t see it in their eyes but it hurts them too."

- Holly Black

"Sometimes, you can be touched by God but not healed. Often when this happens, he is using your pain for a greater purpose."

- Shannon L. Alder

"I’ve survived a lot of things, and I’ll probably survive this."

- J. D. Salinger

"Conquer pain by surrendering to the experience of it."

- Justin Kan

"You say I’m afraid of being alone, and it’s true. I am. And I’m not proud of it."

- Stephanie Perkins

"Anger is a blunt tool. It won’t hurt your enemies. However, It will definitely hurt you."

- Chanakya

"Let your pain be so deep and wide that rivers of good fortune start flowing towards it."

- Shunya

"Sometimes we have to truly wallow in our misery so we can learn how to bask in our happiness. Sometimes we have to lose all hope before we find unwavering faith."

- Rania Naim

"That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn."

- Hal Borland

"Don’t drift into self-pity because it doesn’t solve any problems. Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought."

- Charlie Munger

"Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head."

- Ann Landers

"If it hurts, it’s probably doing you good. If it’s pleasant, it’s most likely wrong."

- John Graves

"Vengeance wastes a lot of time and exposes you to many more injuries than the first that sparked it. Anger always outlasts hurt."

- Seneca

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

- Godwin Delali Adadzie

"Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise."

- Ram Dass

"The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves."

- Sophocles

"It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt."

- Zakiya Caswell

"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift."

- Mary Oliver

"Have you ever been hurt, and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again?"

- Rosa Parks

"That feeling when you give it all you have, and life still kicks your ass."

- Shane Parrish

"Life eventually humbles us all. The longer it takes, the harder the fall."

- Ed Latimore

"Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it."

- Emily Dickinson

"I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature."

- Paulo Coelho

"Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment, and things left unsaid."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

"For a tree to become tall, it must grow tough roots among the rocks."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart."

- Julia Roberts

"Our spirit is mightier than the filth of our memories."

- Melina Marchetta

"I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent."

- Susanna Kaysen

"Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it – that is what you must do."

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"If someone really wants to hurt you, they’ll find a way whatever. I don’t want to live my life worrying about it."

- George Michael

"Sometimes, your heart needs more time to accept something that your mind already knows."

- Paulo Coelho

"Be grateful in spite of your suffering."

- Jordan Peterson

"Love those who hurt you the most because they are probably the ones closest to you. They, too, are on a path, and just like you, they are learning to walk before they can fly. Imagine if everybody you hurt in life turned their backs on you? You would be playing a hell of a lot of solitaires. Love them no matter what."

- Nikki Sixx

"There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love."

- Ashly Lorenzana

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

- Kimberly Marie

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

- Molly Fader

"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

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

- Jennifer Brown

"Stand firm, speak up—because silence is not golden, instead, it is deadly."

- Charlena E. Jackson

"Intentions aside, we’re all capable of hurting people."

- Melanie A. Smith

"All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief."

- Cicero

"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune."

- William Faulkner

"Sometimes it is best to lie low, to do nothing but let the winter pass."

- Robert Greene

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

- Pat Conroy

"The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When you hold a grudge, you want someone else’s sorrow to reflect your level of hurt but the two rarely meet."

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Tiffany Reisz

"It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time."

- Willie Nelson

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

- L.E. Modesitt Jr.

"It will probably leave a scar. But so does everything."

- Deirdre Sullivan

"The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten."

- William Faulkner

"Pain lets me see the hurt inside."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Each breakup brings you closer to the person who is right for you."

- Thibaut

"One thing you can’t hide — is when you’re crippled inside."

- John Lennon

"Not everyone you lose is a loss."

- Dan Mace

"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them."

- Dalai Lama

"The ax never remembers. The tree never forgets."

- Paulo Coelho

"One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him."

- Socrates

"A rose, isn’t quite as beautiful as it once was, when after its thorn pricks you."

- Anthony Liccione

"Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"When you are dressing a wound, pain is pain’s medicine."

- Roman Proverb

"All conflict can be traced back to someone’s feelings getting hurt, don’t you think?"

- Liane Moriarty

"The medicine that hurts the most is generally the best healer."

- Scottish Proverb

"True pain cannot be concealed."

- Serbian Proverb

"Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting."

- Siri Hustvedt

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

- Erma Bombeck

"I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more."

- C.S. Lewis

"We are fragile beings, yet we often act as though we couldn’t be hurt, and as though we couldn’t hurt other people."

- Jocelyn Soriano

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

- Seneca

"The worst loss you’ve ever experienced is the greatest gift you can have."

- Byron Katie

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

- Bae Suah

"Never to suffer would never to have been blessed."

- Edgar Allan Poe

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

- A. Kamalei

"Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings."

- Mahavira

"Sometimes even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you,"

- James Hilton ( Cowboy)

"Every heart has its secret sorrows."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not."

- François de La Rochefoucauld

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise."

- Les Miserables

"People who stop laughing are always the ones who get hurt."

- Josh Sundquist

"My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away."

- David Levithan

"If you love large, you’ve got to hurt large. If you’ve got a lot of light, you’ve probably got an equal amount of darkness."

- Sarah McLachlan

"Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?"

- Lady Gaga

"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

"People who love someone who doesn’t love them back are brave but that bravery gives them only hurt."

- Garima Soni

"Love is wisdom, no such thing as being a fool for it."

- Zara Hairston

"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

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

- Eloghosa Osunde

"This fight is between two people whose love for each other is tangled in barb wires."

- Alessa Kelly

"You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath."

- Taylor Swift

"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

"That is the rule of the Wilds: You must be bigger and stronger and tougher. You must hurt or be hurt."

- Lauren Oliver

"There is no point of hurting ourselves with stress for others actions, best relief is to learn let go if it cannot be changed even after trying."

- Tonmoy Acharjee

"I wish I could be hurt or angry. I would prefer anything other than this complete disappointment."

- Nicole Hartley

"Why did I always end up loving the person who hurt me the most? Why was love so cruel?"

- J.C. Reed

"Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever."

- Lord Chesterfield

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

- Oma Akuma

"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

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

- Markus Zusak

"The stupid might have wanted to help you but ended up hurting you."

- Arabic Proverb

"Injuries done to us by others tend to be acute; the self-inflicted ones tend to be chronic."

- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"A person begging for their humanity to be acknowledged can sound an awful lot like rage."

- Kalen Dion

"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

"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

"You must know the width of the knife and how it ruined you, name the organs it kissed."

- Olivia Gatwood

"Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?"

- Diogenes

"I can feel the hurt. There’s something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering."

- Albert Borris

"Most marks people leave are just scars"

- John Green

"I’m scared of things that I can’t see that can hurt me, you know."

- Andy Ruiz Jr.

"’Tis easier to hurt than heal."

- German Proverb

"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

"It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once."

- Nina LaCour

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

- Karl Kristian Flores

"If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones."

- John Steinbeck

"As one grows weaker, one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt."

- Jack London

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."

- Emily Brontë

"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

- Aristotle

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."

- Michel de Montaigne

"Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine."

- Honore de Balzac

"I’ve never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything."

- Rahm Emanuel

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

- Francis Bacon

"The problem to me is violence. It’s not cool to kill somebody or hurt people."

- Mark Ruffalo

"Time is the wisest counselor of all."

- Pericles

"There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."

- Vincent van Gogh

"Tears are the silent language of grief."

- Voltaire

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

- Veronica Roth

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

- Katie McGarry

"Love is the beauty of the soul."

- Saint Augustine

"Knowingly we don’t have time to help and love people but unknowingly we always manage to have time to hurt them."

- Sushan R. Sharma

"We’re getting hurt, but I’m a long-term investor."

- Al-Waleed bin Talal

"Those who do not weep, do not see."

- Victor Hugo

"Grief is itself a medicine."

- William Cowper

"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"A light heart lives long."

- William Shakespeare

"Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."

- William Shakespeare

"Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

- Rumi

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

- Godwin Delali Adadzie

"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."

- Washington Irving

"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated."

- Alphonse de Lamartine

"I love you. "Is not enough to make up for the pain that never heals and starts again at the slightest word."

- James Hilton ( Cowboy)

"Tears come from the heart and not from the brain."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul."

- Jewish Proverb

"Sadness flies away on the wings of time."

- Jean de La Fontaine

"The hottest love has the coldest end."

- Socrates

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."

- Charles Dickens

"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

- William Shakespeare

"But everyone has some kind of power to hurt people."

- Kristin Cashore

"The heart was made to be broken."

- Oscar Wilde

"Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again."

- William Shakespeare

"Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it."

- Thomas Fuller

"We only part to meet again."

- John Gay

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."

- Elbert Hubbard

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

- Rumi

"Healing doesn’t have to look magical or pretty. Real healing is hard, exhausting, and draining. Let yourself go through it. Don’t try to paint it as anything other than what it is. Be there for yourself without judgment."

- Unknown

"Heal so you can hear what’s being said without the filter of your wound."

- Unknown

"Time heals what reason cannot."

"Disappointment hurts more than pain."

- Unknown

"Someone said, “anger is sadness that has had nowhere to go for a very long time,” and I’ll never forget that."

- Unknown

"The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze."

"I am yours, don’t give myself back to me."

"Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time."

"The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep."

"An invisible thread connects those who are destined to meet."

"It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company."

"A heart in love with beauty never grows old."

"Where there is love, there is pain."

"The loss of love is not nearly as painful as our resistance to accepting it."

"When one door closes, another opens."

"It is always darkest before the dawn."

"What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

"He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything."

"The more I give to thee, the more I have."

"Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better."

"The deeper the sorrow, the less tongue it has."

"There is sacredness in tears."

"Sorrow makes us all children again."

"Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break."

"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

"He jests at scars that never felt a wound."

"He that is strucken blind cannot forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost."

"A man is not where he lives, but where he loves."

"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."

"When love is over, there’s always the pain."

"When the heart grieves over what is has lost, the soul rejoices over what it has left."

"To weep is to make less the depth of grief."

"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow."

"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."

"Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret."

"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart."

"My feelings? Oh, don’t worry about those; no one else does."

- Unknown

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his."

"Being rejected from something good just means you were being pointed toward something better."

"One of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul."

"Forgiveness is making a conscious decision to live in the present, even if the past still hurts."

"Sometimes, the people we love the most are only meant to be in our story for a chapter, not the whole book."