Joyce Carol Oates Quotes about Hurt

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Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.

Boxing is rough. Even if you win, you get hurt.

Joyce Carol Oates

Sports, Hurt, Winning

Of our hurts we make monuments of survival. If we survive.

Joyce Carol Oates

Hurt, Survival, Monument

For what is delusion but the prelude to hurt. And what is hurt but the prelude to rage.

Joyce Carol Oates

Hurt, Rage, Prelude

A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?

Joyce Carol Oates

Hurt, Teens, Mouths

Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “Faithless: Tales of Transgression”, p.33, Harper Collins