Khaled Hosseini Hurt Quotations

It's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good.

You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.

Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.

One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I'd just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn't have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.

But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.

it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

No matter where we're born, which countries we're raised in, what cultures we come from, there are some universal experiences we all have as children. We all kind of start the same. We want the love of our parents, companionship, friends, we want to have fun, to play, and we're all hurt the first time we learn that the world is far from perfect place - it's the start of a series of epiphanies and realizations that is what growing up is all about.