A Quote by John Green

Hurt tends to drown out sorry. — © John Green
Hurt tends to drown out sorry.

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For the women out there that I've hurt with my male privilege, I'm sorry.
I was hitting him with what I thought was my full strength, I hit him in the head about four times and every time I hit him, I was like, 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry'. And he's like, 'It's fine, it didn't even hurt'. Yeah, that was kind of an ego deflater!
You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind.
Affliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.
Oh… God. What was a male supposed to do in this situation? "I'm sorry," he muttered. "If I… uh, hurt your feelings or something." She glared at him. "I'm not hurt. I'm pissed off and sexually frustrated.
When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.
Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I have no control over the coach's decision, I will only hurt myself by pulling my hair out or by feeling sorry for myself.
You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.
Hello, darling. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known. You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.
Not every man was sorry when he hurt a woman.
Can one drown in one's element... If fish can drown in water, can human beings suffocate in air?
Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown.
We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.
When someone was willing to drown with me, I really didn't want to drown anymore.
It is a strange paradox: Humans drown in the water, fish drown in the land.
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