Top 100 Hurt Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The heart was made to be broken.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Passion Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes

2. “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”

— George R.R. Martin

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes

3. “It hurts now, but one day it will be your warm up.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Short Inspiring Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Pain Quotes

4. “Injuries are our best teachers.”

— Scott Jurek

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Running Quotes

5. “Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Pain Quotes, Anger Quotes

6. “An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Deep Quotes, Friendship Quotes, Quotes About Trust

7. “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”

— George Orwell

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Imagination Quotes, Government Quotes

8. “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Deep Quotes, Adversity Quotes, Past Quotes, History Quotes

9. “Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.”

— Corrie ten Boom

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Grace Quotes, Healing Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes

10. “Tears are words the heart can’t express.”

— Gerard Way

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Love You Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes, Sadness Quotes

11. “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Depressing Quotes, Existentialism Quotes, Sorrow Quotes

12. “If you love and get hurt, love more. If you love more and hurt more, love even more. If you love even more and get hurt even more, love some more until it hurts no more.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Care Quotes, Moving Quotes, Healing Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes

13. “Harboring unforgiveness is like drinking poison and hoping your enemy will die.”

— Joyce Meyer

Also featured in: Inner Peace Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes

14. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

— Anaïs Nin

Also featured in: Relationship Quotes, Sad Quotes, Book Quotes About Love, Broken Heart Quotes

15. “There is no joy for the one who does not bear sadness, there is no sweetness for the one who does not have patience, there is no delight for the one who does not suffer, and there is no relaxation for the one who does not endure fatigue.”

— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Also featured in: Resilience Quotes, Sad Quotes About Life, Suffering Quotes, Sadness Quotes

16. “Don’t lie to me. Don’t deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Sad Quotes, Quotes About Trust, Liars Quotes

17. “If you give it to God, He transforms your test into a testimony, your mess into a message, and your misery into a ministry.”

— Rick Warren

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Service Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Resilience Quotes

18. “In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.”

— Elie Wiesel

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Morality Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Compassion Quotes, Suffering Quotes

19. “I dare you to take a little pain. I dare you!”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Willpower Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Workout Quotes

20. “Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”

— Bob Dylan

Also featured in: Emotion Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Pain Quotes

21. “Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Suffering Quotes, Healing Quotes

22. “There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”

— Neil Gaiman

Also featured in: Sad Quotes, Loss Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes, Sadness Quotes

23. “These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Sufism Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Suffering Quotes

24. “Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”

— William Faulkner

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Depression Quotes

25. “Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus – a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Faith Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Healing Grief Quotes

26. “I was never crippled until I lost hope.”

— Nick Vujicic

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Suffering Quotes

27. “Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Loneliness Quotes, Sadness Quotes

28. “I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.”

— Lemony Snicket

Also featured in: Sad Quotes, Sorrow Quotes

29. “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Empathy Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Buddhist Quotes, Compassion Quotes

30. “To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.”

— Charlie Chaplin

Also featured in: Suffering Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Humor Quotes, Pain Quotes

31. “If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.”

— Oswald Chambers

Also featured in: Purpose Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes

32. “Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Spiritual Growth Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Sufism Quotes, Suffering Quotes

33. “I can endure more pain than anyone you’ve met. That’s why I win, because I can endure more pain.”

— Steve Prefontaine

Also featured in: Willpower Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Competition Quotes

34. “Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.”

— Rick Warren

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

35. “If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.”

— Trent Reznor

Also featured in: Sad Quotes

36. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Understanding Quotes

37. “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”

— William Goldman

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Sad Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes, Sorrow Quotes

38. “I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.”

— Haruki Murakami

Also featured in: Loss Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Depression Quotes, Loneliness Quotes

39. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”

— Steve Maraboli

Also featured in: Quotes About Heart, Forgiveness Quotes, Grief Quotes

40. “We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Suffering Quotes, Pain Quotes

41. “The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart – hearts are made to be broken – but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”

— Oscar Wilde

Also featured in: Depressing Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes, Sadness Quotes

42. “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

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes

43. “Some kids are so depressed at home and with how people treat them in school that they cut themselves. This happens all over the world – kids who don’t want to kill themselves, but nobody understands how much they hurt, so they cut themselves with razor blades.”

— Chester Bennington

Also featured in: Mental Health Quotes, Sorrow Quotes, Depression Quotes, Darkness Quotes

44. “Cycling is suffering.”

— Fausto Coppi

Also featured in: Suffering Quotes

45. “If I never see you again, I will always carry you, inside, outside, on my fingertips, and at brain edges, and in centers, centers of what I am, of what remains.”

— Charles Bukowski

Also featured in: Loss Quotes, Longing Quotes, Heartbreak Quotes

46. “No one is going to come help you. No one’s coming to save you.”

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Warrior Quotes, Impossible Quotes, Truth Quotes, Quitting Quotes

47. “People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch or movement.”

— Marsha M. Linehan

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes

48. “Pain is only temporary, no matter how long it lasts.”

— Ray Lewis

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Gym Motivation Quotes

49. “This is a moment of suffering. Suffering is part of life. May I be kind to myself in this moment. May I give myself the compassion I need.”

— Kristin Neff

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Empathy Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Mental Health Quotes, Wellness Wednesday Quotes

50. “It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”

— A.W. Tozer

Also featured in: Suffering Quotes, Adversity Quotes, Pain Quotes