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“A thin, polished woman walks in. She sticks out immediately in her expensive looking navy dress, shiny bag and shoes that probably cost more than I make in a month. My breath leaves me when I see that her arm is draped around a younger version of herself. That hair, it's pulled back way too tight now, but I'd run my hands through it a thousand times before. That face, now in layer of makeup that makes her look older than I remember, I'd held it in my calloused hands and kissed those lips goodbye over a year ago. She said she'd never see me again and I learned to accept that. She destroyed me, and I'd moved on. No. Not her. She's not from here anymore. I don't know who that person is anymore.”

“It’s not okay,” I tell her. This gets her attention; it’s not what she was expecting. “You don’t have to be okay.” “What do you want from me?” Her voice is ragged, desperate. “I want you to let yourself be broken. Let yourself hurt.” She shakes her head again. “I can’t. If I let it out, it’ll never stop.” “Yes, it will.”

“We cannot love a person with an all accepting, transcending and encompassing love without being hurt somewhat, without being disappointed, without being failed of our expectations. We cannot love without being broken, yet we cannot continue in love without being stronger than our brokenness.”

“I can't look into those honey eyes, I get afraid of what I might find. Through the heartbreak, pain, and veiled lies, I hid behind what my mind always denied. I did not deserve that. I kept thinking... why me? A child lost in silence, When no one dared to see. I wore smiles like shields, Laughed so no one would ask. But the echoes never faded, They lived behind my mask. I forgot how to trust, How to rest, how to breathe. Love knocked on a shattered door, But I had ghosts beneath. He saw more than I ever showed, He touched the cracks too deep. Now I wonder if he left Because I was too much to keep. I didn’t mean to hide, I didn’t know the truth myself. My past was a locked room On a forgotten, dusty shelf.”

“Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.”