{"quotes":[{"text":"If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.","author":"John Fowles","tags":["hurting","silence"],"id":346,"author_id":"John+Fowles"},{"text":"God's presence is not the same as the feeling of God's presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["christianity","gods-presence","hurting","struggle"],"id":4134,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"Contrast is important in life. We understand what light is because we can compare it with what we know is dark. Sweet is made sweeter after we eat something bitter. It’s the very same with sadness. And it’s important to experience sadness, to embrace it in order to truly know happiness. I was just a flat line until he came along. And maybe now I’m hurting. But isn’t that what love is supposed to do? Make you feel, make you brave, make you look at yourself more carefully?","author":"Tarryn Fisher","tags":["contrast","happiness","hurting","moving-on"],"id":12436,"author_id":"Tarryn+Fisher"},{"text":"It wasn't supposed to. It was just supposed to stop you from hurting yourself.” “It helps—” “No it doesn't. It just pushes it away temporarily. Just like the booze.” “But I need—” “You need to let yourself feel. Feel it, own it. Then move on.” “You make it sound so easy.” Bitterness drips from each syllable. “It’s not. It’s the fucking hardest thing a person can do.” I smooth a damp strand out of her face and away from my mouth. “It’s the hardest fucking thing. It’s why we drink and do drugs and fight. It’s why I play music and build engines.","author":"Jasinda Wilder","tags":["bitterness","colton","cope","coping","cutting","drinking","falling","falling-into-you","feel","feeling","fighting","grief","hurting","jasinda-wilder","music","nell","relief","words"],"id":16597,"author_id":"Jasinda+Wilder"},{"text":"It's making me so sad that you are unreachable. My desire for your touch, and your lips. It's breaking me inside. I'm so scared you are the only one I will ever love. I'm so scared because I know there is no other you.","author":"Salomé Steinz","tags":["afraid","distance","dream","dreaming","fear","heart","hope","hurting","impossible","love","quotes","sad","sadness","scared","unreachable-love"],"id":16637,"author_id":"Salom%C3%A9+Steinz"},{"text":"Finding out that you are not your lover’s only lover hurts, but not as much as discovering that you are the side chick … or the side dick.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adultery","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","cheat","cheater","cheaters","cheating","commit","commitment","concubine","concubines","courtesan","courtesans","date","dating","funny","girlfriend","girlfriends","heartbreak","heartbreaker","heartbreakers","heartbreaking","heartbroken","hetaera","hetaerae","hetaeras","hetaira","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","hurt","hurting","hurts","infidelity","joke","jokes","kept-woman","kept-women","love","marriage","marriages","marry","mistress","mistresses","relationship","relationships","satire","side-chick","side-chicks","side-dick","side-dicks","wedding","weddings"],"id":17425,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"We have to expect disappointments, trouble, losses and hurts as an inevitable part of life. It is vital to repeat to ourselves the most important and comforting words of all time: THIS, TOO, SHALL PASS AWAY!","author":"Donald Pillai","tags":["comforting","hurting","inspirational","motivational","motivational-inspirational","motivational","pain"],"id":22288,"author_id":"Donald+Pillai"},{"text":"A thin, polished woman walks in. She sticks out immediately in her expensive looking navy dress, shiny bag and shoes that probably cost more than I make in a month. My breath leaves me when I see that her arm is draped around a younger version of herself. That hair, it's pulled back way too tight now, but I'd run my hands through it a thousand times before. That face, now in layer of makeup that makes her look older than I remember, I'd held it in my calloused hands and kissed those lips goodbye over a year ago. She said she'd never see me again and I learned to accept that. She destroyed me, and I'd moved on.No. Not her. She's not from here anymore. I don't know who that person is anymore.","author":"Jolene Perry","tags":["hurt","hurt-feelings","hurting","love-hurts"],"id":25255,"author_id":"Jolene+Perry"},{"text":"If a good man can't sleep after hurting people, then he should learn much more to be a leader.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["good-man","hurting","leader"],"id":30079,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"You know if you would just do as I say I wouldn't have to hurt you.","author":"Amanda Stephan","tags":["amanda-stephan","awesome","cruel","evil","hurting","mean","romance","the-price-of-trust"],"id":37758,"author_id":"Amanda+Stephan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":95,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}