Emily Dickinson Quotes

Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.

Emily Dickinson

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• To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Giving
  • Me
  • Charity

• I don't sing anything that hurts my voice.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Voice
  • Sing
  • Hurts

• And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Good
  • Hurt
  • Still

• What I've learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Angry
  • Hurts

• If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • Dance
  • Hurts

• The one that hurts the most is that Busch race I had won.

  

  Dick Trickle
  • Won
  • Hurts
  • Busch Race

• Because just for a few seconds, someone else hurts, too. For just a few seconds, I'm not alone.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Alone
  • Hurts
  • Seconds

• What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings.

  

  Epictetus
  • Friendship
  • Response
  • Hurts

• There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.

  

  William Slim
  • War
  • Hard
  • Principles

• I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. However, i don't know a fig about my sickness, and am not sure what it is that hurts me. I am not being treated and never have been, though I respect medicine. What's more, I am also superstitious in the extreme; well, at least enough to respect medicine.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Respect
  • Medicine
  • Hurts

• You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Love
  • Suffering
  • Magic

• Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Truth
  • Hurts
  • Falsehood

• I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Heart
  • Hurts
  • Look Back

• The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Love
  • Earth
  • Hurts

• Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Love
  • Trust
  • For Her

• The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Reason
  • Souls
  • Separate

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

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Love
  • Hurts
  • Paradox

• Following Jesus is simple, but not easy. Love until it hurts, and then love more.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Jesus
  • Hurts

• If you lose, it hurts, but as long as you have fought hard, you can still feel good about yourself.

  

  Ivan Lendl
  • Feel
  • Lose
  • Hurts

• I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Respect
  • Souls
  • Confession

• Art is what we do when we're truly alive.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Art

• Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Hurts