150 Hurting Quotes

Following is our list of hurting quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about getting injured.

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Famous Hurting Quotes

With the physical mindset I play the game with, I expect to get hurt. — Steve McNair

In my whole career, I've never really gotten hurt. The only ones that really hurt me were my wives. — Jake LaMotta

Best to learn from other people’s injury. — Swedish Proverbs

No man is hurt but by himself — Diogenes

I've been beaten, I've been bruised, I was left for dead as well. — Ronnie Radke

When I was seven, I broke my leg playing soccer. Just to feel something. — Anthony Jeselnik

We hurt people that love us, love people that hurt us — Kendrick Lamar

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten. — Aesop

You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life's lessons are learned through pain — Boonaa Mohammed

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin. — Manfred von Richthofen

My first season Butch Bouchard accidentally sent me to the hospital for three days with a concussion, but I never backed away from Butch or anyone else after I came back. — Ted Lindsay

Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others — Roland Merullo

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. — Jane Fonda

I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to. — Guy Forget

Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry. — W. H. Auden

Short Hurting Quotes

  • When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. — African Proverbs
  • The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for. — Bob Marley
  • Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts. — Charles Dickens
  • Love hurts more than hate. — Michael Todd
  • If the truth shall kill them, let them die. — Ayn Rand
  • Don't jack off a cactus, you'll only hurt your hand and the cactus' feelings — Tre Cool
  • Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. — Robert H. Schuller
  • No person or thing hurting you is worth you hurting yourself — Lauren Jauregui
  • All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt. — Charles M. Schulz
  • We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. — Seneca The Elder

Hurting Image Quotes

To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue. - Proverbs quote

To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue. — Proverbs

Hurt me with the truth,don't comfort me with a lie. - Rihanna quote

Hurt me with the truth,don't comfort me with a lie. — Rihanna

I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me. - Archilochus quote

I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me. — Archilochus

Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with feelings. - Anna Karina quote

Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with feelings. — Anna Karina

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself. - Toby Keith quote

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself. — Toby Keith

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. - Francis Bacon quote

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon

God knows, I never want to hurt someone's feelings. - Selma Blair quote

God knows, I never want to hurt someone's feelings. — Selma Blair

Forgive those who have hurt you. - Les Brown quote

Forgive those who have hurt you. — Les Brown

When my legs hurt, I say: “Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do! - Jens Voigt quote

When my legs hurt, I say: “Shut up legs! Do what I tell you to do! — Jens Voigt

When you win, nothing hurts. - Joe Namath quote

When you win, nothing hurts. — Joe Namath

Your reactions to your enemy can hurt you more than your enemy can. - Hannah Hurnard quote

Your reactions to your enemy can hurt you more than your enemy can. — Hannah Hurnard

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. - Winston Churchill quote

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. — Winston Churchill

The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other. - Ashleigh Brilliant quote

The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other. — Ashleigh Brilliant

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me. - Socrates quote

Slanderers do not hurt me because they do not hit me. — Socrates

Getting a tattoo should hurt. It's a rite of passage. - Jenna Jameson quote

Getting a tattoo should hurt. It's a rite of passage. — Jenna Jameson

It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you. - Drake quote

It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you. — Drake

Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills. - Robert A. Heinlein quote

Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills. — Robert A. Heinlein

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse. - Ann Trason quote

It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse. — Ann Trason

It is when we hurt that we learn. - Steve Maraboli quote

It is when we hurt that we learn. — Steve Maraboli

Hurting quote It hurts because it matters.
It hurts because it matters.

We Got Hurt Quotes

American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt. — Jackie Chan

Of course we got drunk!" Semyon said. "It's okay to get drunk, Anton. If you need to real bad. Only you have to get drunk on vodka. Cognac and wine—that's all for the heart." "So what's vodka for?" "For the soul. If it's hurting real bad — Sergei Lukyanenko

We should have a way of telling people they have bad breath without hurting their feelings. Well, I'm bored. Let's go brush our teeth. Or, I've got to make a phone call. Hold this gum in your mouth. — Brad Stine

Hurting quote It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through t
It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through the soul and cleanses the heart.

We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god...is not helping him today. — Janet Morris

What we should be doing [in US] is accelerating every year our efforts to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, have a cleaner energy future, have much more energy conservation. And this won't hurt anybody. This will create a new economy for America, if we've got the discipline to do it. — William J. Clinton

The doctor looked at it after the game and he thought it didn't look too bad, but we'll see what happens. My skate got caught and I twisted it. I heard it twist and I couldn't get up. All my body weight fell on it. I had to be really hurt to leave the game - we were still in the game at that point. — Martin Brodeur

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

Republicans have pounced. They're outraged. They say, 'How dare you lie about caring for the people who got hurt in the war we lied them into?' — Bill Maher

...we got this gift of life and we got it one time and we gonna get hurt in it and be hurt going through it and the only thing that'll make that hurt better or hurt less is love. — James Frey

I like the fact that we have all the teams in the tournament. When I first got here as an assistant, not everyone made the tournament and I think as a coach, you look at it from a job security standpoint, I think that hurt when you didn't have everybody in the tournament. — Tim Buckley

My own father held down two jobs, barely affording the little rented house I grew up in. My dad worked hard, lifted heavy things, and got his hands dirty. The only soap we had at my house was Lava. Heck, I was in college before I found out it wasn't supposed to hurt to take a shower. — Mike Huckabee

Getting Injured Quotes

I have just accepted certain things and it makes it easier. I accept I will get injured. I accept I cannot win every race. I work hard to decrease the chances of those things happening but I accept they will happen. A lot of people don't accept it. They get injured, they go crazy. — Usain Bolt

Many people are afraid of running because between 30 to 70 percent — Daniel Lieberman

And next time you're planning to injure yourself to get me attention, just remember that a little sweet talk works wonders. — Cassandra Clare

Hurting quote No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your
No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.

Life will take its toll on all of us. We get injured, we get old. It's really sad to try to run away from these harsh realities of life. Looks are not everything. I am not going to look beautiful all the time. — Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Every time I get injured I measure it's severity by asking myself 'Would this stop me from going to Disneyland?' — Chris Colfer

Because viewing my naked chest has caused many women to seriously injure themselves stampeding to get to me. — Cassandra Clare

Hurting quote If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

Bodybuilders and fitness people have been using chiropractic very extensively in order to stay healthy and fit. I found it was better to go to a chiropractor before you get injured. We are a perfect team, the world of fitness and the world of chiropractors. — Arnold Schwarzenegger

Most injuries happen when you're not motivated, too, and you're forcing yourself to do something. Your mind's not aligned with your body and you're just going through the motions. That's when you're most likely to get injured. — Chris Sharma

I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don't want to get injured because then I can't take care of my kids. — Kristi Yamaguchi

Cycling is part of me, it's who I am. When you get injured, your whole identity is taken away from you, you're no longer yourself. — Magnus Backstedt

When You Hurt So Much Quotes

Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves. — Andrew the Apostle

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

You ask me how, with so much study, I manage to retene my health. Morpheus is my last companion; without 8 or 9 hours of him yr correspondent is not worth one scavenger's peruke. My practices did at ye first hurt my stomach, but now I eat heartily enou' as y' will see when I come down beside you. — Isaac Newton

When a dream is born in you With a sudden clamorous pain, When you know the dream is true And lovely, with no flaw nor stain, O then, be careful, or with sudden clutch You'll hurt the delicate thing you prize so much. — Robert Graves

Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there. — Klaus Kinski

My girlfriends and I just started doing plyometrics. It's a killer - it hurts so much. But when you walk out of there, you're like, 'I can't believe I just did that and my body looks this good.' — Kelly Osbourne

Usually when you do shows you're in the middle of the tour and you're all oiled up and it's just another stop. It's so much pressure for just three minutes. My stomach still hurts. — Mark Oliver Everett

It was really hurtful to me. I get so much mail from young girls who say, 'I look up to you, you're not as skinny as everyone else, I think you're beautiful.' So when they say that my body is 'ugly' and 'disgusting,' what does that make those girls feel like? — Tyra Banks

Like when you scrape your knee and you get a scar, but then the scar fades so much that no one can see it but you. But you know where it is. Cuz you remember what caused it. And no matter how hard you try, you can never forget how bad it hurt when it first happened. — Alyson Noel

It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone. — Deborah Harkness

When It Hurts Quotes

I don’t count my sit-ups; I only start counting when it starts hurting because they’re the only ones that count. — Muhammad Ali

When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important. Interview with Andrew ShueAndrew Shue

All men and women have an equal need for love. When these needs are not fulfilled it is easy to have our feelings hurt, for which we blame our partner. — John Gray

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old. — T. D. Jakes

When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had never met them at all. But remember that even those who've hurt you, came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It’s for the best and healing starts with acceptance. — Yasmin Mogahed

It hurts me when seeing a girl cry...I want to comfort them as long as I can...or I'll end up crying too... — Zayn Malik

In times of grief and sorrow I will hold you and rock you, and take your grief and make it my own. When you cry, I cry, and when you hurt, I hurt. And together we will try to hold back the floods to tears and despair and make it through the potholed street of life. — Nicholas Sparks

Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open. — Corrie Ten Boom

A friend tells the truth even when it hurts. — Turkish Proverbs

When someone hurts you, it’s because they’re hurt. Their hurt is simply spilling over. They need help. — Jay Shetty

Being Hurt Quotes

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. — Bob Marley

Not to hurt our humble brethren is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them whenever they require it. — Francis of Assisi

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

They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil. — Paul the Apostle

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. — Adrian Rogers

If you’re a church person and not a Jesus person, my heart hurts for you. It’s like being engaged and never getting married. It’s miserable. — Matt Chandler

Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory. — Angela Merkel

I'ma be here for a while. None of these clowns can hurt me. - J. Cole

I'ma be here for a while. None of these clowns can hurt me. — J. Cole

It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart. — Pope John Paul II

Look in my eyes, see what I see Do what I do, be what I be Walk in my shoes, hurt your feet Then know why I do dirt in the street. — DMX

Been Hurt Quotes

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt. — Zora Neale Hurston

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins. - Peter Benchley

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins. — Peter Benchley

We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent. — Bryan Stevenson

If you have never been hurt by a word from God, it is probably that you have never heard God speak. — Amy Carmichael

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching. — Victor Hugo

If someone has offended you, insulted you, or disappointed you, let it go! If you are remembering all the ways you have been hurt or forgotten, let it go! Ask yourself, what good does it do for me to hold on to this? — Iyanla Vanzant

No man is hurt but by himself. ...Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too. — Diogenes

When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. — Alfred Hitchcock

Sing like no one is listening. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth. — Susanna Clarke

I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security. — Pope Francis

Hurt And Pain Quotes

It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There’s only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run. — David Goggins

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. — Leo Buscaglia

Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it. — Harriet Morgan

Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls — Laurie Halse Anderson

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. — C. S. Lewis

Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't end after a year, that's a false fantasy. It usually ends when people realize that they can live again, that they can concentrate their energies on their lives as a whole, and not on their hurt, and guilt and pain. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on. — Gabrielle Roth

You and I were created for joy, and if we miss it we miss the reason for our existence. If our joy is honest joy, it must somehow be congruous with human tragedy. This is the test of joy's integrity. It is compatible with pain. Only the heart that hurts has a right to joy. — Lewis B. Smedes

You start projecting hurt and pain onto yourself when you don't find closure. Be honest with the situation and yourself, clean the wound, and move on. — Jay Shetty

Love Hurt Quotes

To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving. — Mother Teresa

I suggest to you that it is because God loves us that he gives us the gift of suffering. Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world. You see, we are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the forms of men. The blows of his chisel, which hurt us so much are what make us perfect. — C. S. Lewis

Jesus will always move away from religious drama and toward the needs of people who are hurting. Jesus will always go out of his way to find and minister to people who others will go out of their way to avoid. I love him for that. — Steven Furtick

Even if a person hurts you, give him love. The worst punishment is to throw someone out of your heart... You should love everyone as God, and love each other. If you cannot love each other, you cannot achieve your goal. — Neem Karoli Baba

There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me. — C. S. Lewis

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe. — Roger Williams

The Holy Prophet Mohammed came into this world and taught us: 'That man is a Muslim who never hurts anyone by word or deed, but who works for the benefit and happiness of God's creatures. Belief in God is to love one's fellow men.' — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

Love is like a rubber band, Both pull on, one release And it hurts the person who has held it. — Lil Wayne

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it. — Robert H. Schuller

Love doesn't hurt you. A person that doesn't know how to love hurts you. Don't get it twisted. — Tony Gaskins

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More Hurting Quotes

There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly. — Lawrence G. Lovasik

I found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propel us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better. — T. D. Jakes

The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built. — Frank Lloyd Wright

People will hurt you. But don't use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones. — LeCrae

What’s the worst thing I've stolen? Probably little pieces of other people’s lives. Where I’ve either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That’s the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can’t get that back. — Chester Bennington

As far as you can avoid it, do not give grief to anyone. Never inflict your rage on another. If you hope for eternal rest, feel the pain yourself; but don’t hurt others. — Omar Khayyam

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