James Mangold Quotes

So to really be able to dive into what does it mean to be broken by an experience, and I developed it just through research and talking and understanding the truth of what it means to lose everything.

We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent.

It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

It was the worst hurt he had ever known.

Pain leaves a mark, the degree depending on the person and the event.

Of course I get hurt.

If you're injured, it's always mentally hard.

People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

Are you in pain, Frodo?' said Gandalf quietly as he rode by Frodo's side. 'Well, yes I am,' said Frodo. 'It is my shoulder. The wound aches, and the memory of darkness is heavy on me. It was a year ago today.' 'Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured,' said Gandalf. 'I fear it may be so with mine,' said Frodo. 'There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will not seem the same; for I shall not be the same. I am wounded with knife, sting, and tooth, and a long burden. Where shall I find rest?' Gandalf did not answer.

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

The one thing all that battle taught me, is that no one walks away without scars. No one. (Bad Moon Rising)

Are you hurt?" "Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.

When people are in severe pain, there's an expression, you're a "pain person," and what that means is that nothing else matters.

Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

What hurts us is what heals us.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.

Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.

My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn't be alive anymore with so much pain, and at the same time I knew I was alive because it hurt. I was afraid that death would find its way into me through this open knee and I quickly covered my knee with my hands.

You slammed my face down on the barbecue grill, now my scars are all healing, but my heart never will.

I had to groan a bit on the couch when my brow was mopped - as it is when you've been shot across the chest.

People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.