on hurt
“A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves.”
Original quotes
From our community writers
We were dirt poor but we had each other. We didn’t need much to have a lot.
Brad NeatonBrad Neaton Always show kindness and love to others. Your words might be filling the empty places in someone else heart.
Alexander KandovAlexander Kandov One quick sip of your memory I let it slip, and I go on without you.
Emma SchippersEmma Schippers If the scars on my heart were visible to the naked eye, maybe you’d think twice about inflicting more.
Laura Natoli-KearneyLaura Natoli-Kearney I am getting better at forgetting you. I am slowly but steadily learning the art of forgetting you.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia Paper and pen petrify me, for they pierce right through me, drawing deep blue blood, leaving me utterly cold.
Shreya JoshiShreya Joshi Spend time with people who get excited over even the smallest victories you earn.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis I wonder if you were the poison or the antidote.
Ginnie BaleGinnie Bale
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More on hurt
If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.
John CalvinJohn Calvin It’s not that I don’t love you. It’s just that I don’t want to.
Blake AudenBlake Auden There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.
Erma BombeckErma Bombeck These days my bones are shifting, trembled things. I am more earthquake than anything.
Blake AudenBlake Auden You taught me to believe in love and then showed me exactly why I shouldn’t.
Blake AudenBlake Auden Everything I know of love is told in the bruises we left on each other.
Blake AudenBlake Auden You are never more like Jesus than when you pray for others. Pray for this hurting world.
Max LucadoMax Lucado My body has always been a stranger. And it aches in a language I don’t understand.
Blake AudenBlake Auden