Hurt Pride Quotes

I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work. One way or another, I'm going to make you care about me. Yes, I am, unless your cold attitude kills me first. It's only fair, Connor. If I'm going to be miserable, by God, so are you. I am not a common wench and I will not be treated like one.

And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.

Sink into morbid, cynical reflection on how much romantic heartbreak is to do with ego and miffed pride rather than actual loss

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

... many a heart is caught in the rebound ... Pride may be soothed by the ready devotion of another; vanity may be excited the more keenly by recent mortification.

My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get away.

You don't just walk out because you think someone has insulted you and your pride has been hurt.

The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away

If I feel like you've disrespected me, you might as well just be dead to me.

I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.

When patronised, I'm unfortunately more flight than fight. Perhaps it's because I actually feel quite wounded.