B. B. King Quotes

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.

Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

Thoughts can hurt like real pain.

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.

I want to believe you, but if that's true, I just don't get it. Why does loving somebody mean you have to hurt them just as much? I mean, if that's the way it goes, what's the point of loving someone?

I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.

Anger simply shows that something in you is hurt, some wound is there.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration

Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from right across the table. But she missed. It wasn't my life she was after. It was more. She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

Suicide - when I think of it, to me it means someone had a lot of problems and they couldn't fight through them anymore. That's not cowardly. It's sad and nothing but.

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

Depression is very bad illness. This will be the toughest fight of my life.

I should, many a good day, have blown my brains out, but for the recollection that it would have given pleasure to my mother-in-law.

What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.

Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.

I knew how much it hurt to be the daughter of people who can't see you, not even if you are standing in front of them stomping your feet.

Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.

Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it's your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.

Hope hurt more than the cold.