- “Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very “poetry of his soul”.Well,it’s not easy but men do it all the time.” ― Mario Puzo, Fools Die
- 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
- “When artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) or raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the self and others) does not occur; that is called sayyam (one’s strength without any inner weaknesses).” ― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
- “Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love” ― Clive Barker
- No man is hurt but by himself. Diogenes
- “Accomplishments don’t erase shame, hatred, cruelty, silence, ignorance, discrimination, low self-esteem or immorality. It covers it up, with a creative version of pride and ego. Only restitution, forgiving yourself and others, compassion, repentance and living with dignity will ever erase the past.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it’s true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn’t fade and the scars don’t heal, and it’s too damned late.” ― Jonathan Tropper, The Book of Joe
- “…sometimes we go, and we try, and we suffer, and despite it all, we learn nothing. Sometimes we are left with more questions than when we started. Sometimes we do harm, despite our best efforts. We are human. We are fragile.” ― Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate
- “In time, he began to see the details that held us like invisible stitches together. The scars we held within, the tears despite our dry faces. He saw the little sigh that came with the song. The way our breathing became labored even though nothing seemed wrong. He peeked into the aimless gaze of daydreamers, reliving their worst moments, commending them on being so strong.” ― Hubert Martin
- In the Now, in the absence of time, all your problems dissolve. Suffering needs time; it cannot survive in the Now. Eckhart Tolle
- “Look, it’s easy to outsmart a werewolf or a vampire,” Jace said. “They’re no smarter than anyone else. But faeries live for hundreds of years and they’re as cunning as snakes. They can’t lie, but they love to engage in creative truth-telling. They’ll find out whatever it is you want most in the world and give it to you—with a sting in the tail of the gift that will make you regret you ever wanted it in the first place.” He sighed. “They’re not really about helping people. More about harm disguised as help.” ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
- “She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again.” ― Hubert Martin
- “Back then, my brown eyes radiated the purity of my soul, which now tell stories of wounds inflicted on it. I saw people in the same light as the law does—“innocent until proven guilty”—as opposed to how I look at the world now—“guilty until proven innocent.” ― Namrata Gupta, Together We Were (W)hole
- 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)
- “Adventures kept hidden, words kept silent. You became my greatest secret. And when you left, no one knew the source of the pain I felt. No one knew you existed, except my writhing heart.” ― Hubert Martin
- “Shine in any season of your life!Head on with confidence in your life’s pilgrim!In deep faith, countless hope and unconditional love blessed by the Almighty.Newness of each rising day, bringing forth colourful sunsets.Enkindle your soul once more with courage, joy and love,flowing in a river of awakening & sharing:with a heart who once knew that hurt, pain, loss…means to SHINE!” ― Angelica Hopes, Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul
- The worst loss you’ve ever experienced is the greatest gift you can have. Byron Katie
- “Love should make you better not bitter.” ― Temi O’Sola, Love Opens Your Eyes
- “When you’re hurting, sometimes it hurts even more when someone can’t give you what you need. At these times it’s important to remember that a man can only have as much compassion for another as he has for himself. Everyone is doing the best they can.” ― Kate McGahan
- “Just because it is not physical, it does not mean it is not abuse. Verbal and Psychological abuses are real things; their effect on the mind of the victim is perhaps more damaging on the mind of the abused than the open wounds that can be seen in physical abuse” ― Arti Honrao
- “When artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) or raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the self and others) does not occur; that is called sayyam (one’s strength without any inner weaknesses).” ― Dada Bhagwan, Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
- “Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.” ― Kamand Kojouri
- “Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.” ― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Manon, Ballerina
- “It is OK to be sad, hurt and to worry but you must drop the load and believe in yourself and dream big again.” ― Abhishek Ratna, small wins BIG SUCCESS: A handbook for exemplary success in post Covid19 Outbreak Era
- “…4-5-6: when time escapes the day in its most beautiful way. She starves for that beauty, she longs to quench her limitless thirst, but those moments are so fleeting and their limit is her unrest. Her bones are hollow and heavy as she takes a single step, and in that instant she is gone, blinded by the flash of a stray ray of light, her eyes close in that moment and stars flood her night. She falls forward slow, counting the half seconds of her descent. Her eyes stay closed, her thoughts are spent.” ― Hubert Martin
- “What was it like to lose him?” Asked Sorrow. There was a long pause before I responded:It was like hearing every goodbye ever said tome—said all at once.” ― Lang Leav, Love & Misadventure
- “There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone.” ― Shannon Alder
- “Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.” ― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
- “I think I feel it The nimble, fleeting emotion That novels and authors desperately Try to convey in ink and heart blood Whose shadow festers in the loins Of teenagers and their insatiability The hidden thing none of us can see Yet we all disagree what it looks like If only it were love… simple, infinite love But this was more, this was bloodshot madness.” ― Hubert Martin
- “Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.” ― W.H. Auden