Hurting Quotes

I wish you all the pleasurable excitement one can have without hurting others and one's own dignity. (Norbert Elias)
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful -- just stupid.) View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head. View quote
Mark Haddon
The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male imagination are inseparable from the brutality of male history. The private world of sexual dominance that men demand as their right and their freedom is the mirror image of the public world of sadism and atrocity that men consistently and self-righteously deplore. It is in the male experience of pleasure that one finds the meaning of male history. View quote
Andrea Dworkin
The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize is we know almost nothing about God and therefore we should be eager to search and to learn. View quote
John Templeton
In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington. View quote
Fred Thompson
What's really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence. ... Islam is not a killer religion. ... Islam means peace, I couldn't just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem. View quote
Muhammad Ali
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar. View quote
Bertolt Brecht
I was worn out, broken: He had taken almost everything. But he'd been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved one, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting, to try and make him stay. View quote
Sarah Dessen
There's only one thing that's certain And that's everybody, everybody's hurting. (Jakob Dylan)
Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of living. Do without plastics. Smash the servo-mechanisms. Stop grabbing. Snuff the breeze and hug the kids. Love all love. Hate all hate. View quote
John D. MacDonald
Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until death takes over. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
It's a fact of life. Hearts are always hurting. And yet they still keep pumping. View quote
Cecil Castellucci
And it's not just a matter of you hurting me. I will hurt you too, even if I don't want to, I'm not the girl you think I am. And you will remember this conversation, and wish that you'd listened to me. View quote
Cinda Williams Chima
It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except 'be there.' I just want to make him stop hurting, but I can't. So I just follow him around whenever he wants to show me his world. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants. View quote
Holly Black
They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them. View quote
Gaston Leroux
I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else. View quote
David Levithan
If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now. View quote
James Hillman
It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting. (Jennifer Niven)
If you are connected to your own internal being, it is very hard to be screwing and destroying and hurting another human being, because you'll be feeling what they're feeling. If you're separated, it's not a hard thing to do at all. View quote
Eve Ensler
People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean? View quote
Elizabeth Berg
I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it. View quote
Elizabeth Chandler
It is possible to achieve mastery of a problem or a skill without hurting another person or even without attempting to conquer. View quote
Elliot Aronson