Being Hurt Quotes

There is not a single person in this world who does not know what it means to hurt. As humans, we are all equipped with complex emotions and being hurt from time to time is a huge part of the human experience.

The situations in which we can find ourselves hurting can vary. Getting hurt in a relationship or in a friendship is pretty common and we also can get hurt at work or by our own family members.

You might feel as if someone betrayed your trust. Maybe they lied to you about something big or small. Are you feeling stepped on? Did somebody treat you as if you and your feelings do not matter? These are all things that can cause us to feel hurt.

Being hurt is a terrible feeling to have. It comes with emotions like sadness, feelings of abandonment and betrayal, and heartbreak, just to name a few. Worst of all, being hurt can make us feel lonely and isolated from everyone else, including those who did not hurt us.

When feeling hurt, we can easily believe that we might deserve to be treated this way but it is not true. Nobody deserves to be hurt.

It can be very easy to let the hurt drag us down to the point where we think there is no way out of it. But that is not the case. While being hurt is normal, we still have to pick ourselves up again and come out of the situation stronger than before.

Putting your feelings of hurt into words can help you express your feelings. Through the quotes about being hurt below, you can express and vent your emotions, and maybe you can even begin to heal.

The quotes below are so relatable because we all know how it feels to be hurt. We know how being hurt can render us feeling helpless to the point that we do not know how to move on.

Let the hurt quotes below help you express your pain so you can begin to move forward as you heal. Take some of these quotes as advice or share them with someone else who might be hurting.

Being Hurt Quotes and Sayings

1. The saddest thing about being hurt so much is being able to say that you are used to being treated that way.

2. Never make the mistake of wasting your feelings on someone who does not value them.

3. What hurts me the most is the feeling that I was never good enough for you.

4. You never really know your power until someone has badly hurt you.

5. Do not act as if you care about me, because if you really did care, then you would not have done what you did to hurt me.

6. If you cannot help someone, then at the very least you should not hurt them.

7. Everyone is going to hurt you in some point in your life. It is up to you to figure out who is worth suffering for.

8. To hurt is as human as breathing. So breathe when you are feeling wounded and allow yourself to heal.

9. When you have a good heart, then it means that you can end up hurting the most. So if you have a good heart, you must protect it.

10. If you are feeling hurt, it means that you can at least acknowledge that something is wrong. Some people just take it and act like it is not normal.

11. No matter how hurt you may be feeling right now, you have to have faith that you will be able to smile again. Maybe not today and maybe not tomorrow, but it will happen.

12. It is okay to hurt and to feel that hurt wash over you. Allow yourself to cry if it will make you feel better.

13. After a certain point, I have realized that I am going to keep getting hurt if I do not let learn to let go of this.

14. Your family is supposed to be a safe place, but sometimes it can be the place that causes you the most hurt.

15. If you always worry about being hurt in a relationship, then you could end up staying single forever.

16. The more I think about it, the more I realize just how badly it hurts.

17. I may act like I do not care at all. I might give the impression that this does not phase me at all. But inside, I am hurting.

18. Do not be so afraid of getting hurt again that you end up passing up a chance of being truly happy.

19. If someone keeps on hurting you, you have to decide if you want to love them and stay, or you can decide to love yourself and choose to leave.

20. You will never understand how worthless you have made me feel.

21. It is amazing how just a few words can just tear you apart inside.

22. My problem is that I care too much. And that is why I keep on getting hurt.

23. I am not mad. I am hurt. There is a difference.

24. Why do I keep holding on to the things and people that hurt me over and over again?

25. Let it hurt, and then let it go.

26. Words can hurt your feelings, but silence will break your heart.

27. When somebody has told you that you hurt them, you do not get to decide that you didn’t.

28. Our tears are just words that our hearts cannot say.

29. Sometimes I get so tired of getting hurt by people that I wonder if I was just meant to be alone in this world.

30. Even though I saw it coming, it still hurts to know that you did not care about my feelings.

31. If you are hurt, just wait. Time is medicine for the soul.

32. Stop crying rivers over someone who will not shed a single tear for you.

33. Healing is an art that will take some time.

34. When you are feeling hurt, try to find the strength in your pain. That way, you can begin to put yourself back together again and you might just find that you are stronger than you were before.

35. Pain is an essential and unavoidable part of being human. If you are hurting, then that is how you know that you are still alive.

36. Even when you feel like your pain is killing you, remember that you are the one who can kill your pain.

37. Words hurt the most because sometimes they can last forever.

38. If you left me without bothering to give a reason for it, then do not come back to me with any excuses.

39. Waiting for you is like waiting for it to rain in the middle of a drought.

40. Letting go of something that means a lot to you can hurt, but sometimes holding on can hurt even more.

41. Not all scars show and not all wounds heal. But as long as you are still here on this Earth, you have the power in you to keep moving forward.

42. The truth will set you free, but it will hurt first.

43. It is okay to walk out of someone’s life if you feel like you no longer belong in it.

44. One of the hardest things to do is to grieve the loss of a person who is still alive.

45. It hurts the most when the person who made you feel so special yesterday is the same person who has made you feel so unwanted today.

46. Our tears are just words that the heart cannot say.

47. Just because you choose forgive someone, it does not mean that you have to trust them again. It just means that you can move on with your life.

48. Be careful of how far you push me away from you because I just might end up liking it there. You can only hurt me so many times before I decide to not come back anymore.

49. Never be afraid to lose someone who does not feel lucky to have you in their life.

50. Sometimes being silent is the best way to let someone know that they hurt you.

51. You stabbed me in the back and then you pretended that you were the one who was bleeding.

52. You know that you have finally healed when you can tell your story and it does not make you cry.

53. Love should make you feel good, it should not hurt like this.

54. If you could read my mind, then you would be in tears from knowing just how much you have hurt me.

55. I tried to stay by your side, but you pushed me away instead.

56. If I could show you how terrible you made me feel, you would never be able to look me in the eye again.

57. I thought I lost you, but you were never really there. Maybe that should make it hurt less, but it doesn’t.

58. You cannot ask me to trust you while I am still coughing up water from the last time that you let me drown.

59. Just because you have been hurt badly by someone else, it does not mean that you have the right to hurt me too. I do not deserve to be your punching bag and the outlet for all of your problems.

60. Being hurt can take away your faith and belief in people. But you cannot let the hurt close you off to the rest of the world. Because if you do, then you will miss out on the things and the people that can help heal you.

61. You can drive yourself completely crazy trying to figure out exactly why you were hurt, or you can build yourself back together and look ahead. Let the past stay in the past.

62. The craziest part about this hurt that I feel is that you probably do not even have the slightest idea that it is there.

63. I often wonder how many other people there are like me that you must have hurt. Do you do it on purpose, getting some sort of strange gratification from seeing others suffer, or is it just something selfish that you do without realizing how much damage you are inflicting on those around you?

64. That was the last time that I ever let you hurt me. I will not let you do it again, and if it means having to cut you out of my life, then I will do it this time.

65. You do not always need to physically attack someone in order to hurt them. Sometimes mean words can hurt a person just as much.

66. Being hurt, I feel like a wounded bird who is unable to fly again. But I am determined to get back up and try again I do not want one bad experience to make me afraid to live my life.

67. You promised that you would never ever hurt me and yet you managed to do it to me in the worst way possible.

68. When you said that you would never hurt me, I was foolish and naïve enough to believe you with all my heart. Now I know that you were just feeding me with empty promises that you never meant to keep.

69. I trusted you completely, and I was repaid for it by getting hurt.

70. I do not think that I can take being hurt like this again. My heart is too fragile to take another blow.

71. There are times in life when you will have to accept that there are some people who can only be in your heart and not in your life.

72. A true sign of maturity is when someone hurts you and instead of instantly trying to hurt them back, you take the time to try to understand their situation.

73. The truth might hurt for a little while at first, but a lie can go on hurting for forever.

74. My heart is tired of getting hurt.

75. Did you think that it would be fun to hurt me and just not care? Or do you honestly do not know what you are doing to me?

76. Just when I think I cannot hurt any more than I already am, something new happens to make the cut deeper than it was before. I just want to know when I can begin to really heal. When will I be able to move on from all of this?

77. There is one simple thing that you have to do if you want to stay in my life. Stop hurting me. That is all that you have to do.

78. I never really knew what it was like to hurt until I met you. You seem to have made the act of hurting people into an art form.

79. What I want to know is, why me? Why did you choose to hurt me? What is it about me that stuck out to you that made you think that I was weak?

80. You hurt me thinking that I would stay silent about it. But you were wrong. You hurt me, it is true. But I will not be silent.

81. You cannot shame or guilt me into being silent about all the hurt that you have inflicted on me. My hurt is cause by your actions. The least you can do is own what you did.

82. You asked me to not talk about how you hurt me because you knew that what you did was wrong.

83. If you really care about me at all, then why did you hurt me again and again and again?

84. I could never figure out why you sought out to hurt me. Why me? I guess I will never really know.

85. The scars that you left on me have faded away but I will never forget what you did to me and how much it used to hurt.

86. When you are hurting badly enough, it can sometime feel hard to go on. But it is not the end of your story. Your story does not end here, with you crying and picking up the pieces of your broken heart. This is just a chapter of your story. It is up to you to keep pushing forward so you can find out how your story really ends.

87. Be wary of a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Being hurt by someone who you thought was your friend is far worse than being hurt by an enemy that you already knew you had.

88. You cannot stop yourself from hurting. Especially when the wound is still fresh, the pain will ooze out of you and you will struggle to contain all of that hurt inside of you.

89. If you do anything with the experience of being hurt, it should be to learn from your experiences.

90. All I can do is hope that one day the pain will be gone, even though the memory will still be there.

91. You have wounded me deeper than I could have ever imagined.

92. Words are not sticks or stones, but they still hurt, sometimes even more.

93. All I want is some sort of sign, some proof that you actually care about my feelings enough to stop hurting them.

94. I need you to prove to me that you will not hurt me again like this. I can’t just accept you back into my life so easily and give you back my trust. You have to earn it back.

95. Sometimes people will end up hurting you as an attempt to heal themselves.

96. Choose your words wisely, because once you hurt someone with your words, you can never unsay them.

97. Even though you hurt me such a long time ago, I still remember it all as if it happened today.

98. It hurts when you think that you really know someone, only to realize that they are not who you thought they were.

99. I am not sure what I could have done to ever deserve the hurt that you have inflicted upon me.

100. I know it hurts now, but I know that this will make me much stronger.

101. You really hurt me, but I do not consider myself a victim. I am a survivor.

102. I can only hurt so much before I become numb to it all and stop caring.

103. Nothing is worse than being disappointed by the person that you never thought would hurt you.

104. When I care too much, I end up getting hurt in the process.

105. Forgive them not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve to be at peace.

106. Different kinds of people react differently to being hurt. Weak people seek revenge and strong people forgive.

107. I hope you have a hard time sleeping at night since you broke my heart.

108. I willingly gave you my heart because I never once thought that you would hurt it.

109. All I ever did was love you when we were together. And all you did was hurt me.

110. It really hurts to see someone you love be in love with somebody else instead.

111. You took my heart and broke it. Now you are gone and I have been left alone to pick up all of the pieces off the floor.

112. When you left me, you did not just take your things. You took my heart with you as well.

113. I loved you so much and you broke my heart. Now I want it back.

114. Your name used to light up my day. But it no longer makes me smile anymore. Now, hearing your name just makes me want to cry.

115. I am so tired of fighting for you when you refuse to do the same for me.

116. I stood by your side as much as I could have. I did not walk away, you pushed me away.

117. My heart is just so tired. It just hurts too much to love you.

118. It is the worst thing when the only person who can make you feel better is the same person who is making you cry.

119. Love hurts and life is just not the same without it.

120. After the way that you hurt me, I do not want to get attached to anyone anymore.

121. I never knew that I could feel so much pain while being in love with the person who was causing it.

122. You put me through so much hell and I was blind enough to call it love.

123. I wish that I could go back in time so that I could leave you right where I found you.

124. If you were happy before you met someone, then you can be happy when they are gone. Do not let the hurt they caused give you a reason to not be happy again.

125. When a relationship ends, it does not always mean that the two people in the relationship just stopped loving each other. Sometimes it just means that they decided to stop hurting one another. Some people are better apart than they are together.

126. Breakups hurt, but to lose someone who does not respect or appreciate you is not a loss. It is a gain.

127. You need a strong heart to love and an even stronger heart to continue to love even after you have been hurt.

128. It does not matter what hurt you. What matters is who made you smile again.

129. When you are in love and you get hurt, it is like being cut. Even though you eventually heal, there will always be a scar there.

130. You brought me so many smiles that I never once thought that you would end up bringing me so many tears.

131. Let God handle all of the hurt that you are feeling.

132. Believe in people and they will hurt you. But if you believe in God, then he will heal you.

133. Even though you hurt me, I still pray for you every night.

134. When you are hurting and feel as if you have nowhere to turn to, just remember that God feels your pain because you are one of his children.

135. Forgive the people who hurt you and God will repay you for it.

136. I lift up my feelings of pain and hurt to the Lord so that he can comfort me.

137. Let God handle your hurt.

138. Lift yourself up to God so that he can guide you on your path of healing.

139. The pain and the hurt that you are feeling right now does not mean that God is not there. Remember that God does not give us what we cannot handle.

Conclusion

These are just some of the hurt quotes that can help you describe your experience of being hurt.  From religious quotes about dealing with your hurt to quotes that focus on the hurt of heartbreak, these quotes can help you through your journey of healing.

As you begin to heal from your wounds, remind yourself of how much stronger you are now from all of the hurt that you have had to endure in your life.

While you might still get hurt again in the future, do not worry. Your pain will be temporary and you will smile again each and every time. While the road ahead may not be easy, just remember that there is always hope and that there is a way forward for you.