Here are the best hurt quotes I could find. Keep in mind that being hurt may seem meaningless in the short term, but in the long term, it’s often what we need most.
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
What if the worst thing that happened to you turns out to be the best thing that has ever happened to you? Joe Dispenza
It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it. Seneca
I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you. Friedrich Nietzsche
Live. Understand. Move on. Maxime Lagacé
To heal a wound you must stop scratching it. Paulo Coelho
Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. Edgar Allan Poe
The Best Hurt Quotes
Despair can never be dissolved through escape, but by observing it. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Pain is inevitable, suffering is not. Henepola Gunaratana
Be grateful in spite of your suffering. Jordan Peterson
The purpose of life, as far as I can tell… is to find a mode of being that’s so meaningful that the fact that life is suffering is no longer relevant. Jordan Peterson (Maps of Meaning)
Another person will not hurt you without your cooperation. You are hurt the moment you believe yourself to be. Epictetus
So other people hurt me? That’s their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own. Marcus Aurelius
When there is no resistance of any kind then there is no psychological problem. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it – that is what you must do. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
You aren’t really being rejected – you’re being redirected. Mel Robbins
Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. Augustine of Hippo
Many things cause pain which would cause pleasure if you regarded their advantages. Baltasar Gracián
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
Injuries done to us by others tend to be acute; the self-inflicted ones tend to be chronic. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Bed of Procrustes)
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
The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a struggle. Hiding what is shameful is itself a form of shame. Mark Manson
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Alain de Botton (The Architecture of Happiness)
Part 1. Life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows, doesn’t matter. And some people recover and others don’t. Charlie Munger
Part 2. 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
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
If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home. Ursula K. Le Guin (The Dispossessed)
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure. Hermann Hesse
No man is hurt but by himself. Diogenes
Part 2. Hurt Quotes That Are…
The Most Famous Hurt Quotes (Nietzsche, Lady Gaga, Tolstoy, etc.)
Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. Oprah Winfrey
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
Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment. Friedrich Nietzsche
Handling our suffering is an art. If we know how to suffer, we suffer much less, and we’re no longer afraid of being overwhelmed by the suffering inside. Thich Nhat Hanh
In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now. Eckhart Tolle
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
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality. Seneca
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise. Ram Dass
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
Sometimes your heart needs more time to accept something that your mind already knows. Paulo Coelho
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us. Hermann Hesse (Peter Camenzind)
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 (Grammys 2019)
Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them. Leo Tolstoy
If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself. Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace)
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Short Hurt Quotes
One-liners, short hurt quotes, sayings, thoughts and captions for your bio, social status, self-talk, motto, mantra, signs, posters, wallpapers, backgrounds.
Embrace your suffering tenderly. Thich Nhat Hanh
No one can hurt me – that’s my job. Byron Katie
Heaven or hell; it’s all in the mind. D. Muthukrishnan
Only in ending is there a new beginning. Jiddu Krishnamurti
We cannot learn without experiencing pain. Unknown
How you relate to the issue *is* the issue. Ron Hulnick
Today’s hot pain is tomorrow’s cold wisdom. @TheStoicEmperor
The axe never remembers. The tree never forgets. Paulo Coelho
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves. Sophocles
Pain doesn’t hurt as much when you stop avoiding it. Mel Robbins
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Rumi
Whatever rejection you’re facing right now is a gift. Mel Robbins
Failure hurts but passes quickly. Regret hurts forever. Shane Parrish
No one and nothing can free you but your own understanding. Ajahn Chah
Stop running from pain. Pain is here to teach you something. Justin Kan
More short quotes
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. Emily Dickinson
We are not our stories, our dramas, or our wrongdoings. We are love. Gabby Bernstein (Judgment Detox)
Don’t allow your wounds to turn you into a person you are not. Paulo Coelho
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
I’ve survived a lot of things, and I’ll probably survive this. J. D. Salinger
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. Thich Nhat Hanh
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 (The Architecture of Happiness)
Because of your difficult experience, you will become stronger, wiser and more compassionate toward those having a hard time. Haemin Sunim
Part 1. We are all gonna get heartbroken over and over again. We are all gonna deal with failures all over again. But it’s how we think about those moments, in the moment. Lilly Singh
Part 2. 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
Part 3. 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
Use setbacks in life as an opportunity to become a bigger and better person. Don’t wallow. Shane Parrish
Being rejected from something good just means you were being pointed toward something better. Unknown
For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks. Friedrich Nietzsche
The measure of who we are is how we react to something that does not go our way. Gregg Popovich
Learn from your past, but don’t be controlled by it. Mel Robbins
Never be afraid to suffer, it’s just a tool that some people aren’t willing to use. It’s that very tool that strengthens weak people. David Goggins
Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you. David Foster Wallace (Infinite Jest)
Misfortune is virtue’s opportunity. Seneca
If you are going to heal in a magnificent way, you have to feel magnificent. Joe Dispenza
Funny (Or Perhaps Not So Funny After All…)
Just because someone serves you a bad meal, does not mean you have to eat it. George Raveling
That feeling when you give it all you have and life still kicks your ass. Shane Parrish
Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn’t taking place. Ursula K. Le Guin
“Why did they insult me?” Bad question. “Why did I feel insulted?” Good question. @TheStoicEmperor
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Deep And Emotional Hurt Quotes
Ninety-nine percent of your problems are created by you because you take life seriously. Osho
If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible – only you and you alone. Osho
People who wrong others for no good reason tend to keep at it until they finish the job. Thucydides
We often benefit from harm done to us by others, almost never from self-inflicted injuries. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Bed of Procrustes)
It is precisely in times of immunity from care that the soul should toughen itself beforehand for occasions of greater stress, and it is while fortune is kind that it should fortify itself against her violence. Seneca
Don’t drift into self-pity because it doesn’t solve any problems. Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge and self-pity are disastrous modes of thoughts. Charlie Munger
Whenever you think that some situation or some person is ruining your life, it’s actually you who are ruining your life. It’s such a simple idea. Feeling like a victim is a disastrous way to make go through life. Charlie Munger
Sentimentality and emotionalism are the most destructive things. Jiddu Krishnamurti
If you didn’t remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn’t? Jodi Picoult (Plain Truth)
Things that break – be they bones, hearts, or promises – can be put back together but will never really be whole. Jodi Picoult (Handle With Care)
There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering. Alan Watts
When things break down, what has been ignored rushes in. Jordan Peterson
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you’d think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune. William Faulkner
Life eventually humbles us all. The longer it takes, the harder the fall. Ed Latimore
Life is full of suffering. Yes. Why should it be otherwise? Embrace. Endure. @TheStoicEmperor
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself. Havelock Ellis
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Wise Hurt Quotes (Words Of Wisdom)
I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning. Haruki Murakami (1Q84)
Recognize reality even when you don’t like it – especially when you don’t like it. Charlie Munger
The river you’re in has strong waves and smooth waves too. Same water, but different energy. Use them both wisely. Maxime Lagacé
Meditation is the only answer to all the questions of man. It may be frustration, it may be depression, it may be sadness, it may be meaninglessness, it may be anguish: The problems may be many but the answer is one. Meditation is the answer. Osho
Attachment is the root cause of all misery – and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything. It starts becoming identified, attached, it does not know how to keep a distance; hence the misery. Osho
If you feel pain, be attentive to it; don’t do anything. Attention is the great sword; it cuts everything. You simply pay attention to the pain. Osho
The less the head, the more the wound will heal – with no head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things. Osho
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. Lena Horne
We don’t meditate to see heaven, but to end suffering. Ajahn Chah
All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire. Edgar Allan Poe
Instead of treating events as wins or losses, ask “Did I learn something I can apply in the future?” If not, you must treat it as a loss. Naval Ravikant
A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it, then you can go on to the next lesson. Unknown
You cannot suffer the past or future because they do not exist. What you are suffering is your memory and your imagination. Jaggi Vasudev (Sadhguru)
Pain is a teacher that commands the attention of every student. A lesson learned from suffering is not easily forgotten. @TheStoicEmperor
We are not in control of pain. No matter how hard we try. Not of the cause or the duration – only the response. Ryan Holiday
There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth. Fred Rogers
Learn to accept discomfort and uncertainty. It will eliminate most of your imagined suffering. Neil Strauss
I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent – no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you. Seneca
Part 3. Conclusion
When pain, misery, or anger happen, it is time to look within you, not around you. Jaggi Vasudev (Sadhguru)
