Top 100 Can't Hurt You Quotes
#1. That's life for you," said MacDunn. "Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more.
Ray Bradbury
#2. It took me a couple of years to realize that ghosts can't hurt you. All they can really do to people is scare them.
Kerstin Gier
#3. The dead can't hurt you, they're dead. Living things can hurt you, living people can hurt you but the dead can't.
Neil Gaiman
#4. You know, voices can't hurt you if you don't listen to them.
Adam Scythe
#5. Don't call me Lord Snow."
The dwarf lifted an eyebrow. "Would you rather be called the Imp? Let them see that their words can cut you and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name take it make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore.
George R R Martin
#6. Don't worry about making friends; don't worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can't hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can't stand you.
Bear Bryant
#7. Reckon it's best if you don't have anyone you care about; then it can't hurt you. Don't have to be afraid of losing someone if you no one to lose.
Karen Maitland
#8. Until you learn better, you think that a landscaped world can't hurt you or please you, you needn't bother about its soul, you needn't be wary of its good looks.
Until you learn better.
Joanna Russ
#9. Censure and criticism never hurt anybody. If false, they can't hurt you unless you are wanting in manly character; and if true, they show a man his weak points, and forewarn him against failure and trouble.
William E. Gladstone
#10. If he can't reach you he can't hit you
If he can't hit you he can't hurt you
Arun D. Ellis
#11. The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
William Golding
#12. The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless but with time you see things clear and stark
Elvis Costello
#13. I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Ann Richards
#14. Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.
Grace Metalious
#15. I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
Gregory Maguire
#16. There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can't hurt you anymore when you've been completely dismantled.
John Oliver
#18. Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
Ogden Nash
#19. And I think that's how I would describe love right now if someone asked me. You're so connected to someone else that the world and all its cliques and challenges and traumas and mysteries can't hurt you that much.
Audrey Hart
#20. If you can understand human behavior, it can't hurt you nearly as much.
Carol Plum-Ucci
#21. I have this theory: If you forgive someone, they can't hurt you anymore.
Candace Bushnell
#22. And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.
Patty Hearst
#23. I turned my face to the sky and laughed because the things you enjoy can't hurt you.
Benedict Freedman
#24. In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should.
Dean Koontz
#26. You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.
Allan Sherman
#27. That stupid saying "What you don't know can't hurt you" is ridiculous. What you don't know can kill you. If you don't know that tractor trailer trucks hurt when hitting you, then you can play in the middle of the interstate with no fear - but that doesn't mean you won't get killed.
Dave Ramsey
#28. A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic.
Peter Lynch
#29. Books can't hurt you, if you don't read them.
Marty Rubin
#30. There's two things that you don't listen to: flattery, which can't help you, and abuse, which can't hurt you. You have to look at the facts.
Jim Tressel
#31. Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where you're going to get it from me. I been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can't hurt you. You keep the ball in the park.
Satchel Paige
#32. Fear can't hurt you. When it washes over you, give it no power. it's a snake with no venom.
Maureen Johnson
#33. 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.
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
#34. Tell yourself you're dead, the way Matt does, so the past can't hurt you.
Ilsa J. Bick
#35. Sex on Twitter can't hurt you - unless you fall off.
Woody Allen
#36. Be quiet or I'll be forced to flick you."
"Ooh," he mocked. "The ultimate threat. I don't think I've ever been flicked before."
"Are you suggesting I can't hurt you?"
"On the contrary, I think you have the power to do great damage.
Alexandra Adornetto
#37. [F]ear can't hurt you any more than a dream. There aren't any beasts to be afraid of on this island ... Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
William Golding
#38. Thoughts are just thoughts, and they can't hurt you. My thoughts land in my mind like a butterfly; they stay for a while, then flutter away. The butterfly isn't me. I can step away from it, and watch it, learn from it, enjoy it, without needing to absorb it into my identity.
Julie Farrell
#39. Fear can't hurt you," she said. "When it washes over you, give it no power. It's a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.
Maureen Johnson
#41. The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.
Alan Moore
#42. So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.
Stephen King
#43. But it's not possible to forget anybody you were that hung up on, who was that hung up on you. You can't forget anything that hurt so badly, went so deep, and changed the world forever. It's not possible to forget anybody you've destroyed.
James Baldwin
#44. You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much.
Tama J. Kieves
#45. I'm a very ordinary girl, Moses. I know that I am. And I always will be. I can't paint. I don't know who Vermeer is, or Manet for that matter. But if you think ordinary can be beautiful, that gives me hope. And maybe sometime you'll think about me when you need an escape from the hurt in your head.
Amy Harmon
#46. Don't you see, Delilah?" she asked. "I need to wrap up this mess before anyone else gets hurt. I can do it. I know I can. But we have to leave now, while there's still time.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#47. Knowledge can hurt because you can't turn away from things
anymore. You can't pretend you're blind to what's happening," he
said. "It's a lot easier to ignore something you don't want to accept
than to face it.
Katie Kacvinsky
#48. In my opinion in art nothing can go too far as long as you don't physically hurt people or animals. Art is there to push boundaries. I love it when my work freaks people out but it's all fake!
Tom Six
#49. You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?
Junot Diaz
#50. The only way you can hurt your body is if you don't use it
Jack LaLanne
#51. You can't stamp on people and not get hurt in return.
Alexei Panshin
#52. Few things hurt more than doubt creeping into a life of conviction.
Go back to the last sure knowledge you have - the last revelation you know to be true and stand your ground. Stand firm and wait.
The Universe will send you aid and clarity.
Even if you can't see it at first.
Jaime Buckley
#53. And they can't understand, what hurts more - Missing the other person, or pretending not to.
Khadija Rupa
#54. I can't look at you. I don't want to talk to you. I just want my things. I want to go home.-Blaire Wynn
Abbi Glines
#55. There was one day when I just didn't feel like I could do weight training after my cardio, so I didn't. You do have to know when to stop, or you can hurt yourself.
Jordana Brewster
#56. You can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourself, but please don't hurt each other!
Tommy Wiseau
#57. You can't hold it in forever," Colton said, apropos of nothing. "Yes, I can." I had to. "You'll go crazy. It'll come out, one way or another." "Better crazy than broken." I wasn't sure where that came from, hadn't thought it or meant to say it. "You're not broken. You're hurting.
Jasinda Wilder
#58. You can't hurt me the way you think you can. But even if you could? I would rather die with the taste of you on my tongue than live and never touch you again. I'm in love with you, Mara. I love you. No matter what you do.
Michelle Hodkin
#59. You like me." "I do not," she lied. "But I didn't mean to hurt your feelings." He was undaunted. "Aye, you like me, lass. I can tell. You called me by my given name and you are frowning, with dewy eyes. I forgive you for being cruel and thoughtless.
Karen Marie Moning
#60. There is a limit for everything. You can't just load tons and tons of peacock feathers in a cart considering it's light weight. If you do, it will damage the axle of the cart.
Thiruvalluvar
#62. I am just a simple guy and I like when people enjoy themselves. I always say: you can laugh, you can cry, you can express yourself but please don't hurt each other. I really don't know, to be honest with you. I'm very impressed with everything that has happened.
Tommy Wiseau
#63. Any fool can love somebody who's perfect, somebody who does everything right. But that doesn't stretch your soul. Your soul only gets stretched when you can still love somebody after they've hurt you.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#64. Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, "All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is".
Mitch Albom
#65. Listen to me, Ember. I couldn't hurt you. I can't." Hayden settled his eyes on me. They were softer than I'd ever seen. "I love you - I've loved you since the first time I saw you.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#66. I can understand the fact you don't want the ball slipping out of a pitcher's hand because someone can get hurt.
Joe Torre
#67. You get into the habit of being angry and hurt by life, and then when something good happens you can't accept it because it doesn't fit the pattern.
Alison Lurie
#68. If you have to go up unarmed against an angry T rex with a four-digit IQ, it can't hurt to have a trained combat specialist at your side. At the very least, she might be able to fashion a pointy stick from the branch of some convenient tree.
Peter Watts
#69. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. If you don't hurt anybody else, what you do is your own business.
Johnny Carson
#70. Andrew Callaghan, put that girl down before you hurt her. No one's going to touch her, but if you're not going to take care of her, you can't have her.
Moira Rogers
#71. We keep secrets from people that we love because we're afraid of our own truth. I think sometimes we're afraid to hurt people, because you never know. I think we're afraid of what is, and what can't be.
Lauren London
#72. Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you ... not ever ...
Judy Blume
#73. Prideful fool. It hurt his feelings that he couldn't make my crazy go away. You know how men are. Always trying to fix things can't be fixed.
Ken Wheaton
#74. What's the worst thing I've stolen? Probably little pieces of other people's lives. Where I've either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That's the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can't get that back.
Chester Bennington
#75. Jealousy is an uncontrollable emotion. It attacks all of us. As long as you don't let it get the best of you, I'm sure you and your envy can live in harmony without anyone getting hurt. So, see? There's no need to feel bad about it. It makes you normal. Human.
Linda Kage
#76. Why? It doesn't hurt you or anything. I told you I won't bother you if you don't want me to. And if you do, well, I'm all about that. So what's it matter if I just love you from afar?" I didn't entirely know. "Because . . . because you can't!
Richelle Mead
#78. Is that why you push people away?" he whispered. "So they can't get close enough to hurt you when they're gone?
Jodi Picoult
#79. I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver.
I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too.
Kurt Vonnegut
#80. In a fairy tale, the story can't be altered. The prince and princess will never have a fight. You'll never hear the queen raise her voice. No on ever gets sick; no one ever gets hurt. Maybe love is only safe in places where it can't change.
Jodi Picoult
#81. You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you ...
S.E. Hinton
#82. If you don't feel anything, you can't be hurt.
Barry Lyga
#83. You couldn't do it?" Rob Lynburn sneered.
"I know her," Ash said in a low voice.
"I can't ... hurt someone I know.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#84. I don't mean you should despise people for being weak, if it's a kind of weakness they can't help. But when they're weak on purpose, it's another thing. When they don't even try. When they let people hurt them and don't fight back. It's gross. It's letting down the whole human race.
Mary Gaitskill
#85. Do you guys not get it? You can't hurt us anymore. You can't do anything to us. You can't take anything from us. You're nothing now.
Jeff Zentner
#86. We can endure much more than we think we can; all human experience testifies to that. All we need to do is learn not to be afraid of pain. Grit your teeth and let it hurt. Don't deny it, don't be overwhelmed by it. It will not last forever. One day, the pain will be gone and you will still be there.
Harold S. Kushner
#87. I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil.
Veronica Roth
#88. You can only hurt a person so much and then he doesn't feel the pain anymore. A hard man can take a kicking and not whine about it.
John Fenton
#90. Hearts don't really get broken, but if you practice too hard with them, they can get quite hurt. It feels like they won't get better, but they do.
Kate Le Vann
#91. Girls like you can't understand, Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime.
Kristin Hannah
#92. You can't give more or take more than the exact worth! If you give more than you need to ... you'll be hurt! In your body in the material world ... in your luck in the world of the stars ... and in your soul in the heavenly world!
CLAMP
#93. But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.
Marilyn Manson
#94. You can't build your life around hurts from the past -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys
Tyler Perry
#95. Isn't it always the things that you can't see that hurt you?
Katie McGarry
#96. I don't get it. Why are many people drawn to someone who's hurt them? Maybe it's an ego thing- being hurt sucks, and you think you can erase that hurt by going back to the person who caused it. Then it will be like it never happened in the first place. Only problem is that it did happen.
Allison Van Diepen
#97. I'm unemployed, and I don't believe I'm out of the NFL because I'm gay, but if it was a reason, it can hurt their livelihood, and you don't want to take that chance.
Michael Sam
#98. No. You hurt people because you didn't have any idea what love really was. You were trying to understand it in the only way you knew how. It's horrible, yes. But it's forgivable. I forgive you. I forgive a thousand worse things you may have done. I can forgive anything.
Laurelin Paige
#99. Also, the killing of small animals is the entrance ramp onto the serial killer superhighway. Damn. I bet the cat knows that. He picked me because I can't hurt him, or I'd be fulfilling my biological destiny. So I'm screwed. The cat stays. Unless you'll kill him ... How does fifty bucks sound?
Kelley Armstrong
#100. Pain only hurts when you are looking for a reason to quit. You don't feel a thing when you know you can still win.
Dane Cook
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