“You were hurt badly, and those scars will be with you for ever. I feel sorry for you, I really do. But think of it like this: it’s not too late to recover. You’re young, you’re tough. You’re adaptable. You can patch up your wounds, lift up your head and move on.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“If my scars were visible, people would gasp and look away since you didn't leave an inch unburnt.”— Leigh Greenthorn, instagram.com
“How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep.’”— J.R.R Tolkien, amazon.com
“I wanted to go to sleep so that I wouldn’t have to think because the only thing I could think was how much it hurt because there was no room for anything else in my head, but I couldn’t go to sleep and I just had to sit there and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.”— Mark Haddon, amazon.com
“Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me…You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but a sadness in their lives, and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say all this to yourself…and…”— John Green, amazon.com
“Just because one person’s problem is less traumatic than another’s doesn’t mean they’re required to hurt less.”— J.A. Redmerski, amazon.com
“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com
“I wanted to go to sleep so that I wouldn’t have to think because the only thing I could think was how much it hurt because there was no room for anything else in my head, but I couldn’t go to sleep and I just had to sit there and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.”— Mark Haddon, amazon.com
“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com
“Anger is just a cowardly extension of sadness. It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.”— Tom Gates, goodreads.com
“I have learned now that while those who speak about one’s miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”— C. S. Lewis, goodreads.com
“Maybe we could heal each other’s wounds if we stopped comparing them. Is hurting not enough? Must we spend so much time debating about who is hurting more?”— John Maurer, johnpmaurer.tumblr.com