Yep, being hurt sucks. The pain can be unbearable and almost physical. It’s as if you can feel your heart being clenched by a fist.
However, reading hurt quotes and identifying with the pain those words express can help to soothe your emotions.
So, to help you get through this challenging time, here are 150+ deeply moving hurt quotes and sayings for your aching soul.
150+ Hurt quotes and sayings
Deep hurt quotes
A fountain gets muddy with but little stirring up, and does not get clear by our meddling with it but by our leaving it alone. The best remedy for disturbances is to let them run their course, for so they quiet down.
– Baltasar Gracián
It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.
– Seneca
Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it – that is what you must do.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises.
– Rumi
Despair can never be dissolved through escape, but by observing it.
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.
– Haruki Murakami
To heal a wound you must stop scratching it.
– Paulo Coelho
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.
– Alain de Botton
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.
– Rumi
Embrace your suffering tenderly.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well, every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something, and your duty was not to be submerged in self-pity but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion.
– Charlie Munger
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
– Edgar Allan Poe
When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstances, revert at once to yourself, and don’t lose the rhythm more than you can help. You’ll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep on going back to it.
– Marcus Aurelius
You aren’t really being rejected – you’re being redirected.
– Mel Robbins
The pain of yesterday is the strength of today.
– Paulo Coelho
A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.
– Michel de Montaigne
The worst loss you’ve ever experienced is the greatest gift you can have.
– Byron Katie
Choose not to be harmed – and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed – and you haven’t been.
– Marcus Aurelius
If it hurts it’s probably doing you good. If it’s pleasant, it’s most likely wrong.
– John Graves
Even situations that appear to be obstacles are actually opportunities – detours in the right direction.
– Gabby Bernstein
Just because it’s not what you were expecting, doesn’t mean it’s not everything you need right now.
– Paulo Coelho
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
– Mary Oliver
The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open.
– Rumi
If you ignore a deep wound, it gets infected. Same is true of psychological wounds. You have to treat a wound to heal it.
– Neil Strauss
I’m sad, hurt, angry, mad, and disappointed. But you know what? I’ll put on a smile and move on. It will hurt but I will survive.
– Unknown
Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation. You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be.
– Epictetus
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.
– Augustine of Hippo
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
– Hermann Hesse
Many things cause pain which would cause pleasure if you regarded their advantages.
– Baltasar Gracián
No man is hurt but by himself.
– Diogenes
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.
– L. Ron Hubbard
The way to heal from hurt is not to ignore or act oblivious of the fact that you have been hurt. You should talk about the hurt to heal.
– Unknown
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
– Max Lerner
You will never know the power of yourself until someone hurts you badly.
– Unknown
Recognize reality even when you don’t like it – especially when you don’t like it.
– Charlie Munger
There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.
– Alan Watts
No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.
– Sheryl Swoopes
When things break down, what has been ignored rushes in.
– Jordan Peterson
Love is blind and love can be foolish. Our heart doesn’t always love the right people at the right time. Sometimes we hurt the ones that love us the most and sometimes we love the ones that don’t deserve our love at all.
– Unknown
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
– Rumi
Hurt quotes from famous personalities
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
– Charles Dickens
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
– Bob Marley
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
– Eckhart Tolle
Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept something that your mind already knows.
– Paulo Coelho
I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel. I focus on the pain, the only thing that’s real.
– Johnny Cash
If you see somebody that’s hurting, don’t look away. And if you are hurting, even though it might be hard, try to find that bravery within yourself to dive deep and go tell somebody.
– Lady Gaga
If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
– Leo Tolstoy
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
– C.S. Lewis
Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.
– Oprah Winfrey
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.
– Kobe Bryant
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take… The line between reason and madness grows thinner.
– Rosa Parks
A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We all face death in the end. But on the way, be careful never to hurt a human heart!
– Rumi
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
– Mother Teresa
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
– Dalai Lama
To hurt is as human as to breathe.
– J.K. Rowling
If you love large, you’ve got to hurt large. If you’ve got a lot of light, you’ve probably got an equal amount of darkness.
– Sarah Mclachlan
Expectation is the root of all heartache.
– William Shakespeare
Do you know the feeling, when your heart is so hurt, that you could feel the blood dripping?
– Lady Gaga
Love so needs to love, that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky’s mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.
– Rumi
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
– Erma Bombeck
To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.
– Bell Hooks
Sometimes things that hurt you most, teach you the greatest lesson in life.
– Buddha
Being hurt quotes
I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
– C. S. Lewis
There are times you feel full of hate and bitterness towards others for no reason. It shows you have been hurt. You have to let it go.
– Unknown
The worst type of crying wasn’t the kind everyone could see–the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life.
– Katie McGarry
When you’ve been strong for so long, sometimes you just need time to be alone and let your tears out.
– Unknown
Just because one person’s problem is less traumatic than another’s doesn’t mean they’re required to hurt less.
– J.A. Redmerski
Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.
– Julian Gough
It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.
– Nina LaCour
First it hurts, then it changes you.
– Gary Goodridge
Was I bitter? Absolutely. Hurt? You bet your sweet ass I was hurt. Who doesn’t feel a part of their heart break at rejection. You ask yourself every question you can think of, what, why, how come, and then your sadness turns to anger. That’s my favorite part. It drives me, feeds me, and makes one hell of a story.
– Jennifer Salaiz
It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.
– Willie Nelson
Real beauty is in the fragility of your petals. A rose that never wilts isn’t a rose at all.
– Crystal Woods
Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love.
– Clive Barker
The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.
– Tammara Webber
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
– Haruki Murakami
Sometimes a good cry is just what you need to release all the hurt you have built up inside.
– Unknown
I couldn’t stand here, hanging on, when the very thing I held disappeared more with each passing day.
– Becca Fitzpatrick
Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
– Jennifer E. Smith
So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.
– Haruki Murakami
Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.
– Becca Fitzpatrick
Warriors should suffer their pain silently.
– Erin Hunter
Less is less. Heartbreak is heartbreak. You think I’m sitting here gloating. Telling myself that my suffering beats yours? Hurt is hurt. You don’t measure these things.
– Stephanie Kallos
There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.
– Jonathan Safran Foer
Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!
– Jocelyn Soriano
Don’t lock yourself away from those who care about you because you think you’ll hurt them or they’ll hurt you. What point is there in being human if you don’t let yourself feel anything?
– Sabaa Tahir
Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it yours. Feed it to yourself even if it feels impossible to swallow. Let it nurture you, because it will.
– Cheryl Strayed
I still own my heart, which I know because it hurts so much.
– Emilie Autumn
Kinda pointless to fight for what you want when what you want continues to break your heart.
– Molly McAdams
The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren’t the ones people see on the outside. They’re the ones that make us bleed internally.
– Sherrilyn Kenyon
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
– Wallace Stegner
a flower knows, when its butterfly will return,
and if the moon walks out, the sky will understand;
but now it hurts, to watch you leave so soon, when I don’t know, if you will ever come back.
– Sanober Khan
Getting over the hurt quotes
One of the most courageous decision you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.
– Unknown
We do not heal the past by dwelling there. We heal the past by living fully in the present.
– Marianne Williamson
It is time for me to let go of my old beliefs about how relationships are supposed to be.
– Louise Hay
You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.’
– Joel Osteen
If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
Darlin’ you don’t need all that armor. Because what lives inside, they can’t break.
– Jm Storm
In three words I can sum of everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.
– Robert Frost
I know something better is on the road for me.
– Maya Angelou
Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.
– Ovid
Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are. Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.
– Marianne Williamson
I’ve always believed that if you don’t stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.
– Paul Anka
If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep living the same sad small life.
– Jean Houston
Don’t like the chapter you are in? Write a new one. You are the author of your life.
– Unknown
I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe. And it will be okay. Because I don’t quit.
– Shayne McClendon
Learn to be happy alone, so you know how to be happy with someone else.
– Unknown
Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
– Steve Maraboli
Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
Everything heals. Your body heals. Your heart heals. The mind heals. Wounds heal. Your heart repairs itself. Your happiness is always going to come back.
– Unknown
Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead focus on what to do next.
– Dimz Media
Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come.
– Rumi
Some think that holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it’s letting go.
– Herman Hesse
Healing comes in waves and maybe today the wave hits the rocks. And that’s OK, that’s OK darling. You are still healing. You are still healing.
– Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Stop running from pain. Pain is here to teach you something.
– Justin Kan
Getting hurt efficiently means we’re hurt, how can we efficiently learn a lesson in this moment so that the next time you will be heartbroken, which you will be, it’s inevitable, you’re better equipped to deal with it.
– Lilly Singh
I always get to where I am going by walking away from where I have been.
– Winnie the Pooh
A strong woman loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, and perseveres…no matter what life throws at her.
– Unknown
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars: you have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
– C. S. Lewis
Pain doesn’t hurt as much when you stop avoiding it.
– Mel Robbins
Use setbacks in life as an opportunity to become a bigger and better person. Don’t wallow.
– Shane Parrish
For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspiration from hurt quotes
Misfortune is virtue’s opportunity.
– Seneca
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
– Alain de Botton
Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
– David Foster Wallace
Because of your difficult experience, you will become stronger, wiser and more compassionate toward those having a hard time.
– Haemin Sunim
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
– Emily Dickinson
I’ve trained my brain to allow myself to be upset when I’m heartbroken or allow myself to feel failure but not be down the dumps for too long.
– Lilly Singh
We are not our stories, our dramas, or our wrongdoings. We are love.
– Gabby Bernstein
I’d rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I’d rather have a no, then nothing.
– Laurell K. Hamilton
We cannot choose to have a life free of hurt. But we can choose to be free, to escape the past, no matter what befalls us, and to embrace the possible.
– Edith Eva Eger
Being rejected from something good just means you were being pointed toward something better.
– Unknown
The measure of who we are is how we react to something that does not go our way.
– Gregg Popovich
That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.
– Amy Tan
Learn from your past, but don’t be controlled by it.
– Mel Robbins
No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.
– Unknown
If you are going to heal in a magnificent way, you have to feel magnificent.
– Joe Dispenza
It is when we hurt that we learn.
– Steve Maraboli
Grieving is not weakness nor absence of faith. Grieving is as natural as crying when you are hurt, sleeping when you are tired or sneezing when your nose itches. It is nature’s way of healing a broken heart.
– Doug Manning
Work like you don’t need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you’ve never been hurt.
– Mark Twain
Yet I also believe that when you do unto others, blessings come to you as well. So if you don’t have a friend, be a friend. If you are having a bad day, make someone else’s day. If your feelings are hurt, heal those of another.
– Nick Vujicic
Stop flogging yourself over the past mistakes and hurtful memories of the past.
– Kellie Sullivan
Never hold onto a hurt, because resentment tears you up. Resentment is like drinking poison and hoping it’s going to kill someone else. It doesn’t work. You have to decide that, before anything else happens, you are going to forgive that person.
– Rick Warren
You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don’t, it hurts even more.
– Aretha Franklin
Good people make mistakes and hurt others – then they learn from their mistakes and TRY not to make them again.
– Bob Anderson
Write your hurts in the sand. Carve your blessings in stone.
There are times when it seems your heart is open to hurt but remember that every heart that is real also has the ability to recover and be stronger than before.
– Byron Pulsifer
Nothing feels blessed about being broken. In fact, certain circumstances in life hurt so intensely that we think we will never heal. But blessing can come in the wake of our being broken.
– Charles Stanley
The medicine that hurts the most is generally the best healer.
– Scottish Proverb
You are not a victim. No matter what you have been through, you’re still here. You may have been challenged, hurt, betrayed, beaten, and discouraged, but nothing has defeated you. You are still here! You have been delayed but not denied. You are not a victim, you are a victor. You have a history of victory.
– Steve Maraboli
From hurt comes pain, from pain comes change. If it hurts enough, change will happen.
– Tripp Evans
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.
– Lao Tzu
Why do we hurt?
Being hurt due to loss, regret, or the actions of others toward us is as painful as physical pain. Sometimes much more. And when we are emotionally hurting, we quite often wonder why we are hurting so much.
The simplest answer to this question is that we are human and we have feelings.
While physical and emotional pain is distinct, research indicates that both types of pain may share some neurological similarities. Emotional and physical pain are both associated with changes in brain the regions.
That being said, it is critical that we address our emotional pain in the same way that we address physical pain.
How to Deal with Being Hurt
Emotional hurt can often feel as strong as physical pain and at times can even cause symptoms of pain throughout the body.
It can also have a negative impact on your overall well-being, so it is critical to seek appropriate help and treatment.
Some suggestions for dealing with emotional pain include:
- Be gentle with yourself. When you are in pain, the person who needs your kindness the most is you. So let go of your self-criticism and negative self-talk.
- Allow your emotions to flow. Don’t hold them back. Feeling your emotions, all the hurt and negative emotions is part of the process of letting go.
- Reach out to your family and friends for emotional support.
- Journaling and expressing all of your emotions on paper can also help you feel better on the inside.
- Exercise. Physical activity has been shown to be effective in improving mood. Going for a run or simply taking a long walk can help to lift your spirits.
- Start a new hobby. Practice self-care. Do whatever makes you feel at ease, safe, and content!
- When attempting to cope with difficult emotions such as anxiety, grief, sadness, and anger, mindfulness, a mental practice that involves focusing on the present moment, can be beneficial. Not only must you become more aware of your emotions, but you must also learn to accept and let go of the need to control or eliminate these emotions.
- Seek professional help. Consult your doctor or a mental health professional if symptoms of emotional pain are causing significant distress or interfering with your daily life.
Conclusion
To conclude, we all experience emotional pain at some point in our lives. And, while the pain is not physical, it is felt in the same way. Thus, it requires the same level of attention as physical pain in order for healing to occur.
The thought that we are strong, on the other hand, can help us get through difficult times. We can look forward to a stronger and better us as long as we help ourselves heal. And this is by allowing ourselves to feel all of the hurt and other accompanying emotions.
Furthermore, we gain a lot of insight, learning, and growth from the pain we endure.
Finally, being emotionally hurt is a natural part of life.
Whatever you are going through right now, pleasant or unpleasant, is most likely the sign you were waiting for. So stay strong and bear your pain; you got this!
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