- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hurt Quotes
On pain, defense mechanisms, and the different ways hurt shows up.
Several quotes here treat hurt as something people guard against, including the idea that comedy can work as a shield for real vulnerability underneath. For related reading, see Emotion quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, I've admired wrist tattoos, but I was always afraid that they would hurt - I'm kind of a weenie about pain. In fact, it's why I wear so many bracelets on my left wrist. The bracelets represented the words or phrases I'd want to get tattooed but didn't have the courage to.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.
- Folk Songs
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
No problems are ever resolved by violence. It only aggravates the pain and the hurt on every side.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that when you talk about something that may hurt someone, reactions are normal, and you are touching some nerves... But I don't do things because people always like what I do.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I hurt my knee, I knew it was time to retire from dancing, and I needed a job just to pay the bills, and I ended up as a receptionist for about three-four years.
- Curiosity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad played for a coal-mining team in eastern Ohio; he was a very good pitcher. If he hadn't hurt his arm, he probably would have got a shot somewhere. He hurt his arm one spring, didn't warm up good enough, couldn't throw a fastball anymore. Another coal miner taught him how to throw the knuckleball.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
This is football; everyone gets hurt. If you run the ball 40 times a game, you're going to get banged around and get nicks and bruises here and there, but I don't pay too much attention to that.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
My advice to the next quarterback that misses an entire year is to understand there is a little difference going out on the road again. You miss that. When you're hurt, you do not feel like you are part of it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like animals, all animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog - or a chicken or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020