Julian Barnes Quotes

People think they know me, but they don't. Not really. Actually, I am one of the loneliest people on this earth. I cry sometimes, because it hurts. It does. To be honest, I guess you could say that it hurts to be me.

I'm the one who got hit by that car, not you,' I tell him. 'Don't act like you're the victim here. You made choices I didn't ask you to make. I'm not sure anyone asked you to make them.' I'm screaming the words, not caring that the entire world can probably hear me. 'You think I like limping everywhere I go? I don't. I'm the victim! Be honest with me! You didn't care about me enough to trust me. I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough.

Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.

Fear is a better friend than you, who feel nothing, beneath the weight of my pain.

That hurt querida, that really hurt

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

Sometimes life seems so painful it hurts even to move my arms.

I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.

Love is, that you are the knife which I plunge into myself.

All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?

You have so much pain inside yourself that you try & hurt yourself on the outside because you want help.

This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.

People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.

When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.

Let's be honest: Ignoring is acting, and nothing more — acting as though the words or actions of your oppressors don't hurt. You hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows.

Hurt tends to drown out sorry.

When you're five and you hurt, you make a big noise in the world. At ten you whimper. But by the time you make fifteen you begin to eat the poisoned apples that grow on your own inner tree of pain.

Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you. Love, and trust, and friendship, and all the other emotions humans value so much, are the only emotions that can bring pain. Only love can break a heart into so many pieces.

Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Said that I was your all and I believed you. That's why it hurts to the core I gotta leave you.

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.