#hurt

...the years have taught me not to wonder too much at the dark things men do. Strange how it is that men never act crueller than when they're fighting for the sake of an idea. We've been killing since Cain over who stands closer to god. It seems to me that cruelty is just in the way of things. You drive yourself mad if you take it all personal. Those who hurt you don't have the power over you they would like. That's why they do what they do. And I'm not going to give them the power now. But it was a cruel thing that they did, and when they had finished hurting me, a splinter of loneliness seemed to break off and stay inside me forever. ↗

— Marcel Theroux

#hurt #ideology #men #men

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#heart #hurt #word #wound #child

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

— Jack London

#suffering #weak #weakness #london

Close your eyes, forget everything that hurts you and dream love, kindness and compassion. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#eyes #forget #hurts #kindness #love

Less is less. Heartbreak is heartbreak. You think I'm sitting here gloating. Telling myself that my suffering beats yours? Hurt is hurt. You don't measure these things. ↗

— Stephanie Kallos

#hurt #loss #heartbreak

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

— Christina Aguilera

#hurt #blame

I hate you for all the years I 'll have to live without you. How can a heart hurt this much and still go on beating? How can I feel this bad without dying from it? I 've bruised my knees with praying to have you back. None of my prayers have been answered. I tried to send them up to heaven but they 're trapped here on earth, like bobwhites beneath the snow. I try to sleep and it's like I 'm suffocating. Where have you gone? Once you said that if I wasn't with you, it wouldn't be heaven. I can't let go of you. Come back and haunt me. Come back. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#love-hurts #dreams

There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#enlightenment

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

— Josh Sundquist

#laugh #laughing #laughter #laughter

If you say that you'd never hurt anybody, you're lack of emphaty and full of bullshit. ↗

— Toba Beta

#lack-of-emphaty #nonsense #people-hurt #nonsense