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Hurting quotes

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“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.” Milan Kundera, “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” - 1984

“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” Jane Austen, “Pride and Prejudice” - 28 January 1813

“The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature to those of us who like to study people is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without hurting anyone and without humiliating himself too much.” Eleanor Roosevelt, “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt” - 1961

“But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.” Haruki Murakami, “South of the Border, West of the Sun” - 1992

“Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so the guy doesn’t even know he’s been hurt until much later.” Margaret Atwood, “The Blind Assassin” - 2000

“Let them see that their words can cut you, and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can’t hurt you with it anymore.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“Words are wind . . . They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.” George R. R. Martin, “A Feast for Crows” - 2005

“Women only know how to wound so. There is a poison on the tips of their little shafts, which stings a thousand times more than a man's blunter weapon.” William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair” - 1847

“Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you can make them.” Marilyn Monroe, “My Story” - 1974

“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you.” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.” Mark Twain, “Following the Equator” - 1897

“We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re not likely to do either.” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts . . . she is proud.” Charles Dickens, “Our Mutual Friend” - 1865

“I will hurt you for this. I don’t know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you’ll know the debt is paid.” George R. R. Martin, “A Clash of Kings” - 1999

“Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another” Nicholas Sparks, “A Walk to Remember” - 1999

“life is so damned hard . . . it just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Beautiful and Damned” - 1922

“And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.” Margaret Atwood, “Cat's Eye” - 1988

“He who acts, harms; he who grabs, lets slip.” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching”

“there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you—knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it.” Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged” - 1957

“Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Lullaby” - 2002

“when grown-ups told you something wouldn’t hurt it almost always did.” Neil Gaiman, “Coraline” - 2002

“So I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody, most of them, and maybe they're secretly all terrific whistlers or something.” J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” - 1951

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