Hurtful Quotes To Express Hurt In Love, Life, Relationship

We’ve all been hurt at some point—maybe from a breakup, a friend betraying us, or life just being tough. To help understand these feelings better, we’ve gathered a list of hurtful quotes and sayings. These
“hurt sayings” capture what many of us feel during tough times.

Being hurt is a common human experience, and it often stems from feeling rejected, neglected, or betrayed by someone close to us. It can be triggered by a wide range of experiences, from a simple disagreement to a more serious breach of trust.

And when you are hurt, you may feel a range of emotions, including sadness, anger, frustration, and disappointment. These feelings can be overwhelming, and they can impact your mental and emotional well-being.

Dive into these hurtful quotes to find comfort, understanding, and maybe even some healing.

If you’ve ever felt down or hurt, these quotes might resonate with you.

Top 10 Hurtful Quotes

1. “Let it hurt then let it go.” ― r.h Sin
2. “Not all scars show. Not all wounds heal.” ― Lisa French
3. “Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you.” ― Unknown
4. “We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.” ― Ovid
5. “You will never know the power of yourself until someone hurts you badly.” ― Unknown
6. “I wish I were a little girl again because skinned knees are easier to fix than a broken heart.” ― Julia Roberts
7. “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” ― Bob Marley
8. “Things we leave unfinished, words we leave unsaid, & the love we keep unexpressed hurt us the most.” – Trisha. J
9. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” ― Richard Puz
10. “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it…” ― Nicholas Sparks

Hurt Quotes

1. “It hurts because it matters.” – John Green

   

2. “I’m not mad. I’m hurt. There’s a difference.” – Unknown                                                                      

   

3. “Have you ever been so sad that it physically hurts inside?” – Unknown                                       

   

4. “Hurt me with the truth. But never comfort me with a lie.” ― Erza Scarlet                                                                   

   

5. “People will usually hurt you in an attempt to heal themselves.” – Unknown                                                         

   

6. “Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.” ― C.S. Lewis

   

7. “I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.” ― Charlie Chaplin                                           

   

8. “Crying isn’t a sign of weakness. It’s a sign of having tried too hard to be strong for too long.” – Unknown                                   

   

9. “Words hurt more than anything else can, because they last, sometimes forever.” – Unknown                   

   

10. “Sometimes you can be touched by God, but not healed. Often when this happens, he is using your pain for a greater purpose.” – Shannon L. Alder

Hurting Quotes On Relationships

1. “The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
2. “The hottest love has the coldest end.” ― Socrates
3. “People hurt you and act as if you hurt them.” – Unknown
4. “Letting go is hard, but holding on is harder.” – Unknown
5. “You broke my heart, but I still love you with all the pieces.” – Unknown
6. “I hope you’ll realize how much you’re hurting me someday.” – Unknown
7. “You knew exactly what you were doing. That’s what hurts the most.” – Unknown
8. “The person you care for the most is the person you’ll let hurt you the most.” – Unknown
9. “Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.” ― Mineko Iwasaki
10. “A million words would not bring you back… I know because I tried. Neither would a million tears… I know because I cried.” – Unknown

Love Hurts Quotes

1. “Love doesn’t hurt, expectations do.” – Unknown
2. “We are a sad generation with happy pictures.” – Unknown
3. “No one will ever understand how much it hurts.” – Unknown
4. The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy. – Jim Rohn
5. “It truly hurts when the person you care the most is the one hurting you.” – Trisha. J
6. “Goodbyes that are never said and never explained hurt you the most.” – Unknown
7. “The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain.” ― Jennifer Aniston
8. “One of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love, love someone else.” – Unknown
9. “It hurts when you have someone in your heart but you can’t have them in your arms.” – Unknown
10. “The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didn’t work out the first time.” — Amanda Howells

Being Hurt Quotes

1. “If the hurt comes so will the happiness” ― Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
2. “I am fighting alone and being depressed is an everyday fight.” – Unknown
3. “One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects.” – Marty Rubin
4. “I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.” ― Neil Gaiman
5. “Don’t waste your time on revenge. Those who hurt you will eventually face their own karma.” ― Unknown
6. “Every heart has a pain. Only the way of expressing it is different. Fools hide it in their eyes, while the brilliant hide it in their smile.” – Unknown
7. “The saddest thing in the world is when two people, who at one time knew everything about one another, act like strangers.” ―Unknown
8. “Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there. ―  Joel Osteen
9. “When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sandpaper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.” ― Chris Colfer
10. “one of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.” ― Brigitte Nicole

Hurting Quotes To Comfort You

1. “To hurt is as human as to breathe.”― J.K. Rowling
2. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”― Oprah Winfrey
3. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”― Rumi
4. “The pain of yesterday is the strength of today” ― Paulo Coelho
5. “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” ― Haruki Murakami
6. “Nobody can hurt me without my permission.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
7. “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
8. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” ― Helen Keller
9. “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.” ― Mark Twain
10. Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.” — Stephen R. Covey

Deep Hurtful Quotes

1. “What hurts us is what heals us.” – Paulo Coelho
2. “I’m sorry to all the people I hurt while I was hurting.” – Unknown
3. “Sometimes even stuff you expect to happen can still hurt.” – Jennifer Brown
4. “Never hurt someone by purpose just because they hurt you by accident.” – Unknown
5. “The shattering of a heart when being broken is the loudest quiet ever.” – Carroll Bryant
6. “So it’s true when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” – E.A. Bucchianeri
7. “Isn’t it sad when you get hurt so much that you can finally say “I’m used to it.” – Unknown
8. “Maybe we feel empty because we leave pieces of ourselves in everything we used to love.” – R.m. Drake
9. “When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.” ― Louis C.K.
10. “Don’t ask why people keep hurting you. Ask yourself why are you allowing it to happen.” ― Robert Tew

Being Hurt Quotes From Family & Friends

1. “Disappointment hurts more than pain.” — Unknown
2. “Love sometimes comes like a dream and leaves like a nightmare.” – Unknown
3. “Some of the most poisonous people come disguised as friends and family.” — Unknown
4. “Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love” ― Clive Barker
5. “Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it’s the place where we find the deepest heartache.” — Iyanla Vanzant
6. “Today my forest is dark. The trees are sad and all the butterflies have broken wings.” — Raine Cooper
7. “Not one scar on my heart came from the enemy. They all came from people who said they “loved” me.” – Thomas Shelby
8. “There is a big difference between being betrayed by an enemy and being betrayed by a friend. The latter hurts more.”— Unknown
9. “Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.” – George Bernard Shaw

Quotes About Being Hurt

1. “Your memories hurt.” – Unknown
2. “I feel like I’m slowly dying inside.” – Unknown
3. “Every heart has its own skeletons.” – Leo Tolstoy
4. “We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca
5. “My silence is just another word for my pain.” – Unknown
6. “My heart never knew loneliness until you went away.”– Unknown
7. “I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal…” – Nicholas Sparks
8. “Don’t hurt my feelings anymore. I left you my roses and you gave me your thorns.” – Godwin Delali Adadzie
9. “When the hearts get too heavy with pain, people don’t cry, they become silent, completely silent.” – Unknown
10. “There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.” – Jonathan Safran Foer

Sad Hurt Quotes

1. “I was prepared, but it still hurts.” – Unknown                                                                                         

   

2. “Care too much, get hurt too easily.” – Unknown                                                                                         

   

3. “Let it hurt until it can’t hurt anymore.” – Liam Ryan                                                                                                   

   

4. “Sometimes, happy memories hurt the most.” – Unknown
5. “As long as you care, something will always hurt.” – r.m. drake
6. “The mind replays what the heart can’t delete.” ― Yasmin Mogahed                                      

   

7. “When it hurts – observe. Life is trying to teach you something.” – Anita Krizzan                 

   

8. “Just because I’m strong enough to handle the pain doesn’t mean I deserve it.” – Unknown    

   

9. “If you never heal from what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you.” – Unknown 

   

10. “It hurts when you realize you aren’t as important to someone as you thought you were.” – Unknown

Hurtful Quotes About Her

1. “It’s hurting again.”– Unknown
2. “Never ignore the person who truly loves you.” – Unknown
3. “It is not the pain. It’s who it came from.” – Drishti Bablani
4. “Sometimes it’s better to be alone. Nobody can hurt you!” – Unknown
5. “It’s hard to forget someone, who gave you so much to remember.” – Unknown
6. “Sometimes, they never wanted to hurt you. They just didn’t care at all.” – Unknown
7. “If they keep hurting you, love them, and stay or love yourself and leave.” – Sonya Parker
8. “Everybody can see a laughing face but nobody can see a broken heart.” – Unknown
9. “I loved you so much that even when you hurt me, I tried to understand you.” – Unknown
10. “With all the smiles you brought me, I never thought that you could cause me so many tears.” – Unknown

Hurtful Quotes For Him

1. “You know what? You really hurt me.” – Unknown
2. “Loving you was the most exquisite form of destruction.”– Unknown
3. “Love is blind.  Sometimes we hurt the person who loves us the most.” – Unknown
4. “If we aren’t capable of being hurt we aren’t capable of feeling joy.” — Madeleine L’Engle
5. “This is the problem with getting attached to someone. When they leave, you just feel lost.” –Unknown
6. “The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.” – Nicholas Sparks
7. “Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the one person who you thought would never hurt you.” ― Gugu Mofokeng
8. “That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways.” – Chuck Palahniuk
9. “You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world. But you do have some say in who hurts you.” – John Green
10. Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.” ― Author D. Love

Feeling Hurt Quotes

1. “Not happy. Not sad. Just empty.”– Unknown
2. “The truth is, I feel broken inside.” – Unknown
3. “Sadness that we can’t explain is worst.” – Unknown
4. “Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.” – Bob Dylan
5. “One thing you can’t hide – is when you’re crippled inside.” – John Lennon
6. “The cure for anything is salt water – sweat, tears, or the sea.” – Isak Dinesen
7. “It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” – Henry Rollins
8. “Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.” – Christopher Morley
9. “It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.” – Miguel de Unamuno
10. “I wish I could give you my pain just for one moment. Not to hurt you, but so that you could finally understand how much you hurt me.” – Unknown

Hurt Disappointed Quotes

While quotes cannot replace the love and support of friends and family, they can be a source of comfort and inspiration when we need them most.

Whether you are searching for words to help you make sense of your own pain, or you are looking for a way to support someone else who is hurting, “hurtful quotes” can be a valuable resource.

1. “It is when we hurt that we learn.” – Steve Maraboli
2. “It hurts but it’s ok… I’m used to it.” – Unknown
3. “I said I was fine, but I never said it didn’t hurt.”– Unknown
4. “Can’t sleep ‘cause all the dirt make my heart hurt.”– Tupac Shakur
5. “Behind her smile is a hurting heart, behind her laugh she’s falling apart.” – Unknown
6. “The worst kind of pain is getting hurt by the person you explained your pain to.”– Unknown
7. “There are two types of pains, one that hurts you and the other that changes you.” – Unknown
8. “Always remember, pain makes people change. So don’t hurt them when you do not want them to change.” – Unknown
9. “The most expensive liquid in the world is a tear. It’s 1% water and 99% feelings. Think before you hurt someone.” – Unknown
10. “I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.” – Mother Teresa

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