Hurt Quotes

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

Don’t fight the hurt. Let the hurt make you real...give away beautiful pieces of yourself and feel the hurt, because the only way to own a life worth having is to give away your own life.

It's the memories you don't see coming that hurt the most.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

It's a lot easier to say that you're mad than to admit that you're hurt.

If you can't go beyond the hole created by any loss, then the hole becomes a canyon. You can see the other side from the edge. You may have to go to the very bottom before you can climb out of it on the other side.

If you love me, let me know. If not, please, gently let me go.

If a person doesn't give two shits about who they hurt, their life will be full of shit.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

A crutch isn't bad if you need it.

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

Forgiviness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare.

Vengeance is having a videotape planted in your soul that cannot be turned off. It plays the painful scene over and over again inside your mind and each time it plays you feel the clap of pain again...Forgiving turns off the videotape of pained memory. Forgiving sets you free.

An unforgivable injury is a profound and irreversible assault on the fundamental belief system of the person who has been injured...--beliefs about themselves, the world, other people, good and bad, right and wrong, the future, and even the validity of the history they have shared with the person who hurt them...The forgiving process is one in which both morality and meaning are defined and redefined until the world again makes sense.

Forgiveness has nothing to do with forgetting...A faded memory [cannot] provide an expiation of the past. To forgive, one must remember the past, put it into perspective, and move beyond it. Without remembrance, no wound can be transcended.

People who have been wronged badly and wounded deeply should give themselves time and space before they forgive...There is a right moment to forgive. We cannot predict it in advance; we can only get ourselves ready for it when it arrives...Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long...If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter's rights to our souls.

Not even God can make something fair out of what is intrinsically unfair. Only one thing can be done. Something must break through the crust of unfairness and create a chance for a new fairness. Only forgiveness can make the breakthrough.

Inner peace is found by changing yourself, not the people who hurt you.