49 Quotes About Hurting Family

Early childhood abuse, trauma, and neglect can lead to many emotional issues in the long term. These quotes about hurting family members will encourage you to be more thoughtful with your actions.

“A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.”

“Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.”

“Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there’s karma to love in regards to what you’ve done to other people.”

“Forgive those who have hurt you.”

“Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.”

“Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.”

“I am a simple man who comes from a village, and villagers like us speak our mind. Now, in the process, if unknowingly my words came across as disrespectful or insulting, then I am deeply sorry. I don’t want to hurt anyone.”

“I don’t like to hold back, because that’s how you hurt yourself.”

“I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don’t have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn’t pawn this off on anybody. I’m sorry it happened. And I hurt people.”

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

“I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.”

“I must learn to love the fool in me – the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.”

“I really believe I’ve been a good person. Not perfect – forget about perfect – but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants – and a few other things as well – but I’ve never hurt anybody.”

“If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.”

“If you don’t deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it’s gonna hurt.”

“If you love large, you’ve got to hurt large. If you’ve got a lot of light, you’ve probably got an equal amount of darkness.”

“I’m free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don’t try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don’t compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.”

“Injury in general teaches you to appreciate every moment. I’ve had my share of injuries throughout my career. It’s humbling. It gives you perspective. No matter how many times I’ve been hurt, I’ve learned from that injury and come back even more humble.”

“It doesn’t matter who hurt you, or broke you down, what matters is who made you smile again.”

“It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.”

“It hurts if someone tells you they don’t want you, but it hurts more if they don’t tell you.”

“It would be impossible to estimate how much time and energy we invest in trying to fix, change and deny our emotions – especially the ones that shake us at our very core, like hurt, jealousy, loneliness, shame, rage and grief.”

“It’s always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it’s just hilarious.”

“Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.”

“Live and allow others to live; hurt no one; life is dear to all living beings.”

“Love hurts the most when you really love. Sometimes you think you’re in love, and then you find out that you’re not because you’re not really hurting. But when it’s real love, then it’s gonna hurt. It’s supposed to hurt because it’s real.”

“Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.”

“My biggest mistake is thinking that people care for me as much as I do for them.”

“No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.”

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”

“One of the main tasks of theology is to find words that do not divide but unite, that do not create conflict but unity, that do not hurt but heal.”

“Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”

“Sometimes I’m not angry, I’m hurt and there’s a big difference.”

“Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.”

“The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.”

“The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.”

“The worst thing about that kind of prejudice… is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.”

“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”

“There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take… The line between reason and madness grows thinner.”

“There’s a natural law of karma that vindictive people, who go out of their way to hurt others, will end up broke and alone.”

“Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.”

“Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.”

“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”

“When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.”

“When you have a good heart: You help too much. You trust too much. You give too much. You love too much. And it always seems you hurt the most.”

“Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.”

“Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you’re going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.”

“Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.”

“You want to believe that there’s one relationship in life that’s beyond betrayal. A relationship that’s beyond that kind of hurt. And there isn’t.”

Feeling rejection can lead you to suffering from continued emotional abuse.