Life Hurts Quotes

• Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don't mean that you can't also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.

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  John Irving

  Hurt   Fun   Mean  

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• One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival.

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  Cynthia Ozick

  Hurt   Revenge   Writing  

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• Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

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  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational   Strength   Leadership  

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• I hate the moment when suddenly my anger turns into tears

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  Timothy Keller

  Sad   Hate   Heart Failure  

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• Dear Torina, I can't face the idea of sacrificing you to this danger. You must stay alive." He caressed her cheek. "Hear me," he went on. "Even if you feel only friendship, Torina, I've loved you since the day you helped me to my feet. I tried so hard to stop. Then I thought you were dead, and my life hurt every day.

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  Victoria Hanley

  Hurt   Sacrifice   Ideas  

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• Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.

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  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational   Hurt   Buddhism  

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• I can honestly say and swear on my patch that I have never in my life hurt anybody that I really didn't feel had it coming, because they was either trying to hurt me or my friends. If everybody was like that it [life] would be real different.

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  Sonny Barger

  Hurt   Real   Trying  

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• Anything dead coming back to life hurts.

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  Toni Morrison

  Hurt   Beloved   Coming Back  

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, p.32, Random House

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• The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.

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  Philip Yancey

  Hurt   Pain   Sorrow  

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Where Is God When it Hurts/What's So Amazing About Grace?”, p.149, Zondervan

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

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  Mother Teresa

  Love   Positive   Marriage  

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• You were right and I was wrong. When life hurts more than death, it is not worth living.

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  Anne Fortier

  Hurt   Life Hurts   Worth Living  

  Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.272, Ballantine Books

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• People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

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  Jim Morrison

  Death   Hurt   Pain  

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