Top 100 Hurt Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “A broken heart heals when we allow the healing to go as deep as the wound went.”

— Beth Moore

52. “Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you’ve endured. They’re a treasure map to the deep self.”

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

53. “I wake up in the morning and ask myself; is life worth living? Should I blast myself?”

— Tupac Shakur

54. “We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.”

— Franz Kafka

55. “Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.”

— Veronica Roth

56. “Forgive those who have hurt you.”

— Les Brown

57. “From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, “I survived.””

— Craig Scott

58. “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”

— Steve Maraboli

59. “It only takes a second for you to call a girl fat and she will starve herself for the rest of her life. Think before you act.”

— Harry Styles

60. “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”

— Ernest Hemingway

61. “The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.”

— Walt Disney

62. “The truth hurts, but silence kills.”

— Mark Twain

63. “Nothing hurts a good soul and kind heart more than to live amongst people who can’t understand it.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

64. “Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.”

— Yasmin Mogahed

65. “You can’t hurt me, I found peace within myself.”

— Michael Jackson

66. “We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”

— Seneca the Elder

67. “Study hard. Work hard. Play harder. Don’t be bound by rules, don’t hurt anybody and never ever live somebody else’s dream.”

— Shah Rukh Khan

68. “What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.”

— Rumi

69. “Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.”

— Victor Hugo

70. “I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.”

— Yann Martel

71. “The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can’t be found.”

— Ernest Hemingway

72. “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.”

— Jim Morrison

73. “Always seek less turbulent skies. Hurt. Fly above it. Betrayal. Fly above it. Anger. Fly above it. You are the one who is flying the plane.”

— Marianne Williamson

74. “Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.”

— C. S. Lewis

75. “To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don’t let it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

76. “It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There’s only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run.”

— David Goggins

77. “Love all. Serve all. Help ever. Hurt never.”

— Sathya Sai Baba

78. “Later that night, I held an atlas on my lap, ran my fingers across the whole world, and whispered, ‘where does it hurt?’ It answered, everywhere, everywhere, everywhere.”

— Warsan Shire

79. “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

80. “Your job isn’t to judge. – Your job isn’t to figure out if someone deserves something or decide who is right or wrong. – Your job is to lift the fallen, restore the broken, and heal the hurting.”

— Joel Osteen

81. “If it hurts, DON’T DO IT AGAIN.”

— Martin Niemöller

82. “What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.”

— Elie Wiesel

83. “I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.”

— Og Mandino

84. “When you serve others, when you make somebody else’s life better, when you lift up people, when you help heal those that are hurting, not only are they being blessed, but you’re being blessed.”

— Joel Osteen

85. “When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.”

— T.D. Jakes

86. “You can’t love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It’s too hard and it hurts too much when it ends.”

— Sarah Dessen

87. “Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.”

— Aldous Huxley

88. “People will hurt you. But don’t use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.”

— Lecrae

89. “The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.”

— Robert H. Schuller

90. “People think they know me, but they don’t. Not really. Actually, I am one of the loneliest people on this earth. I cry sometimes, because it hurts. It does. To be honest, I guess you could say that it hurts to be me.”

— Michael Jackson

91. “It’s only pain, it will not hurt you.”

— Bas Rutten

92. “I found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propel us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better.”

— T.D. Jakes

93. “You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”

— Lewis B. Smedes

94. “Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.”

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

95. “Forgiving the people that hurt us most allows us to heal from the wounds they left.”

— Lecrae

96. “Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”

— Corrie ten Boom

97. “I remember everything. What have I become? My sweetest friend? Everyone I know goes away in the end. You could have it all. My empire of dirt. I will let you down. I will make you hurt.”

— Johnny Cash

98. “Knowledge is pain that’s why it hurts to know.”

— Drake

99. “Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

100. “Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.”

— Leo Buscaglia