Healing can be one of the most difficult aspects of life to process.
Be sure to use these hurt quotes to find solace, confront the pain, and begin healing.
Be sure to use these hurt quotes to find solace, confront the pain, and begin healing.
Kinga Cichewicz
-Shane Parrish
I hurt myself today to see if I still feel.
I focus on the pain, the only thing thats real.
-Johnny Cash
My feelings?
Oh, dont worry about those; no one else does.
-Unknown
Waiting is painful.
But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
-Paulo Coelho
True pain cannot be concealed.
-Serbian Proverb
Its a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them youre hurt.
-Zakiya Caswell
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.
Its when you cant even feel pain anymore that youre in real trouble.
-Emma Stone
Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment, and things left unsaid.
-Jodi Picoult
The stupid might have wanted to help you but ended up hurting you.
-Arabic Proverb
Pain is always emotional.
Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.
Friedrich Nietzsche
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
-Charles Dickens
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
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
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
-Sophocles
No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesnt stop for your grief.
Dont hurt my feelings anymore.
I left you my roses, and you gave me your thorns.
-Godwin Delali Adadzie
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
Im like someone whos 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.
you’re free to destroy my body, but not my soul.
People have a hard time letting go of their suffering.
They prefer suffering that is familiar to the unknown.
-Thich Nhat Hanh
You say Im afraid of being alone, and its true.
And Im not proud of it.
-Stephanie Perkins
The ax never remembers.
The tree never forgets.
Disappointment hurts more than pain.
-Rosa Parks
Failure hurts but passes quickly.
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.
It doesnt hurt to feel sad from time to time.
Its such a simple idea.
Feeling like a victim is a disastrous way to make go through life.
-Charlie Munger
The biggest mistake we make with negative emotions is trying not to feel them.
Awareness deepens positive emotions and allows negative ones to dissipate.
Trying to avoid your feelings causes suffering.
You cry, Im suffering severe pain!
Are you then relieved from feeling it, if you bear it in an unmanly way?
-Seneca
Pain is inevitable; suffering is not.
-Henepola Gunaratana
It is very important that we do not venture to run away from our painful feelings.
We can recognize, accept, embrace, and look deeply.
Few in this world are ever simply nasty; those who hurt us are themselves in pain.
-Alain de Botton
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
-Mahatma Gandhi
Life is a gamble.
Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on.
You just dont let yourself believe it will happen to you.
-Muhammad Ali
Many things cause pain which would cause pleasure if you regarded their advantages.
-Baltasar Gracian
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.
We cannot learn without experiencing pain.
Pain doesnt hurt as much when you stop avoiding it.
-Mel Robbins
I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune.
There will always be suffering.
But we must not suffer over the suffering.
-Alan Watts
To remove the sting of insult, stop valuing compliments.
-B. Biddles
Depression is a strength in you because theres nothing harder than overcoming demons within yourself.
-Kristen Corley
Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again.
Forgiving changes the perspectives.
Forgetting loses the lesson.
Stop running from pain.
Pain is here to teach you something.
-Justin Kan
Pain and death are part of life.
To reject them is to reject life itself.
-Havelock Ellis
Every negative situation contains the possibility for something positive, an opportunity.
It is how you look at it that matters.
-Robert Greene
Know that you never suffer from anyone but yourself.
-Vernon Howard
One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
The purpose of pain is to move us into action.
It is not to make us suffer.
-Tony Robbins
Love the heart that hurts you, but never hurt the heart that loves you.
-Vipin Sharma
The pain of trying and failing is intense and over rather quickly.
-Eckhart Tolle
Sentimentality and emotionalism are the most destructive things.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
Misfortune is virtues opportunity.
Just because its not what you were expecting doesnt mean its not everything you need right now.
Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation.
You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.
-Epictetus
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
When things break down, what has been ignored rushes in.
-Jordan Peterson
So other people hurt me?
Their character and actions are not mine.
What is done to me is ordained by nature; what I do by my own.
The best remedy for disturbances is to let them run their course, for so they quiet down.
Just because someone serves you a bad meal, does not mean you have to eat it.
-George Raveling
The river youre in has strong waves and smooth waves too.
Same water, but different energy.
Use them both wisely.
-Maxime Lagace
Its not the load that breaks you down; its the way you carry it.
-Lena Horne
Be aware deep down, you are really attached to your negative emotions.
They are your ego.
-Bill Masur
Do not feel lonely.
The entire universe is inside you.
Ninety-nine percent of your problems are created by you because you take life seriously.
I dont know about you, but every important thing in my life Ive ever learned was painful.
Suffering is a test.
Thats all it is.
Suffering is the true test of life.
-David Goggins
Whatever is happening in your life, you and only you are responsible for it.
If you had not been clinging, the wheel would have moved.
-Sadhguru
The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering.
The avoidance of struggle is a struggle.
Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame.
-Mark Manson
If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.
Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled.
You will not know what it is to come home.
-Hermann Hesse
If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
We dont meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering.
-Ajahn Chah
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.
-Edgar Allan Poe
You cannot suffer the past or future because they do not exist.
What you are suffering is your memory and your imagination.
When we suffer, notice that our suffering is often made of thoughts.
As our inner commentary ceases, notice that the suffering stops, too.
Dont hold your feelings inside.
The longer we let pain hide in our hearts, the more it turns to poison.
The problems may be many, but the answer is one; meditation is the answer.
Setbacks are inevitable; misery is a choice.
-Stephen R. Covey
Choose not to be harmed and you wont feel harmed.
Dont feel harmed and you havent been.
If it hurts, its probably doing you good.
If its pleasant, its most likely wrong.
-John Graves
Even situations that appear to be obstacles are actually opportunities detours in the right direction.
-Gabby Bernstein
take a stab at learn to let what is unfair teach you.
-David Foster Wallace
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
If not, you must treat it as a loss.
If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.
Detachment is a sort of natural ego antidote.
-Ryan Holiday
When you have been burned by fire once, you dont leap into the flames again.
Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.
-Augustine of Hippo
Oh, love isnt there to make us happy.
I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
Love more, not less.
Will you take a hit?
Of course, you will.
-Bob Goff
Love though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
If you love deeply, youre going to get hurt badly.
But its still worth it.
Love is an incurable disease.
In love, there is permanent suffering.
Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.
Everyone is responsible for their own happiness.
Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others.
-Roland Merullo
back up your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people.
-Israelmore Ayivor
Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light.
Try not to take it personally.
-Kamand Kojouri
Its rare for a toxic person to change their behavior.
More often, the only thing that varies is their target and the blame they place.
So, listen when someone talks about their life and circumstances.
-Steve Maraboli
Respect other peoples feelings.
It might mean nothing to you, but it could mean everything to them.
True love is many things and can survive the strongest and most painful of times.
-Chuck Palahniuk
Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs.
On the outside, it looks like nothings wrong, but every breath hurts.
-Amanda Grace
The worst feeling is not being lonely.
-Nishan Panwar
Dont forget, love isnt supposed to cause you anxiety or stress!
-Thucydides
We often benefit from harm done to us by others, almost never from self-inflicted injuries.
-Robert Knapp
The difference between friendship and love is how much you’re able to hurt each other.
Everyone has hurt feelings sometimes, and people do different things to feel better.
It also helps when we make an extra effort to be sure we dont hurt the feelings of others.
-Molly Bang
You dont get to choose if you get hurt in this world.
But you do have some say in who hurts you.
-John Green
I pay no attention whatever to anybodys praise or blame.
I simply follow my own feelings.
He does not need punishment; he needs help.
Thats the message he is sending.
So its true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.
Bucchianeri
When I feel happiness or love, I feel those things intensely, and I feel pain intensely.
Its the price of feeling.
If someone really wants to hurt you, theyll find a way whatever.
I dont want to live my life worrying about it.
-William Faulkner
Why did I always end up loving the person who hurt me the most?
Why was love so cruel?
-J.C. Reed
Love those who hurt you the most because they are probably the ones closest to you.
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.
Mother Teresa
Stop waiting for them to fix you.
They are the thing that broke you.
-Mairead McCarron
Each breakup brings you closer to the person who is right for you.
-Thibaut
The best revenge is living well without you.
-Joyce Carol Oates
Not everyone you lose is a loss.
-Holly Black
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you cant help them, at least dont hurt them.
-Lawrence G. Lovasik
Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception.
It transforms the hurt into healing.
-Lewis B. Smedes
Anger is a blunt tool.
It wont hurt your enemies.
However, It will definitely hurt you.
-Socrates
I wish I could be hurt or angry.
I would prefer anything other than this complete disappointment.
We are not free.
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
Dont drift into self-pity because it doesnt solve any problems.
Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought.
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
-Ann Landers
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is.
Our pride remembers it forever.
Anger always outlasts hurt.
Forgive those who have hurt you.
-Les Brown
Dont hold to anger, hurt, or pain.
They steal your energy and keep you from love.
-Leo Buscaglia
A stiff apology is a second insult.
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
Go to the place inside that hurts.
The part thats lonely or sad.
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.
-Jason Garner
The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
If you feel pain, be attentive to it; dont do anything.
Attention is the great sword; it cuts everything.
You simply pay attention to the pain.
We are not in control of pain.
No matter how hard we try.
Not of the cause or the duration only the response.
There is no normal life that is free of pain.
Its the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.
-Fred Rogers
Someday, well forget the hurt, the reason we cried and who caused us pain.
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.
The damage was permanent; there would always be scars.
The trick to healing from suffering, I think, is deciding that the pain was worth it.
-Aella
Conquer pain by surrendering to the experience of it.
There is no better way.
If you see somebody thats hurting, dont look away.
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.
-Nicholas Sparks
Sometimes, you’ve got the option to be touched by God but not healed.
Often when this happens, he is using your pain for a greater purpose.
Use setbacks in life as an opportunity to become a bigger and better person.
One benefit of a life crisis is increased self-awareness.
-David Hawkins
Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can.
-Vironika Tugaleva
Be grateful in spite of your suffering.
Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it that is what you must do.
Handling our suffering is an art.
In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve.
Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now.
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
-Ram Dass
Embrace your suffering tenderly.
Learn to accept discomfort and uncertainty.
It will eliminate most of your imagined suffering.
-Neil Strauss
Tears are handy for washing away troubling and sad feelings.
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 worst loss youve ever experienced is the greatest gift it’s possible for you to have.
-Byron Katie
The moment you accept what troubles youve been given, the door will open.
Rumi
It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.
To heal a wound, you must stop scratching it.
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
Despair can never be dissolved through escape, but by observing it.
You arent really being rejected youre being redirected.
You wont even be sure whether the storm is really over.
But one thing is certain.
When you come out of the storm, you wont be the same person who walked in.
If you ignore a deep wound, it gets infected.
Same is true of psychological wounds.
You have to treat a wound to heal it.
Step out of the history that is holding you back.
Step into the new story you are willing to create.
-Oprah Winfrey
Sometimes, your heart needs more time to accept something that your mind already knows.
Only in ending is there a new beginning.
What hurts you, blesses you.
Darkness is your candle.
-Rumi
Whatever rejection youre facing right now is a gift.
No one and nothing can free you but your own understanding.
Dont allow your wounds to turn you into a person you are not.
Ive survived a lot of things, and Ill probably survive this.
-J. D. Salinger
My heart will still ache sometimes.
Maybe more often than not.
I think its possible to be healed without feeling whole.
Being rejected from something good just means you were being pointed toward something better.
For a tree to become tall, it must grow tough roots among the rocks.
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 dont be controlled by it.
If you are going to heal in a magnificent way, you have to feel magnificent.
Gradually, the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasnt taking place.
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
One day youd think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune.
Recognize reality even when you dont like it especially when you dont like it.
Sometimes it is best to lie low, to do nothing but let the winter pass.
I have been bent and broken, but I hope into a better shape.
A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.
We cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.
We must stand up and move on to the next action.
Prioritize healing over history.
-Ebonee Davis
To solve all problems, be here, in reality, now.
Recognize that they exist only in a past or a future.
-Masaru Emoto
Look back at the mirror and try loving the person in it.
Do that thing youve been wanting to do but have been shying away from.
Believe in your vision.
-Mahavira
Pain is temporary.
The pain you feel today is only to get the strength to face tomorrow.
-Sivaprakash Sidhu
Never regret yesterday.
Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.
-Frederick Douglass
Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists.
-Victor Frankl
From hurt comes pain, from pain, comes change.
If it hurts enough, change will happen.
