Hurt But Silence Quotes

#1. Most human predators, however, seek power, not food. To destroy or damage something is to take its power.

Gavin De Becker

#2. Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need, Or sin by silence when I should defend ... "The world is better that I lived to-day."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#3. Maybe they hurt so much that the only way they can say it, is to say nothing

Matthew Dicks

#4. Silence can hurt worse than mean words.

Shelley Coriell

#5. There had been a quarrel, she had been hurt, had wept. Now it was over; now she sat still and waited. Life would go on. As with children. As with animals. If only you did not talk, did not make simple things complicated, did not turn your soul inside out.

Hermann Hesse

#6. At times, love is silent because of too much hurt or too much care. At all times,
love is the strongest voice you can always rely on.

Soar

#7. I am still very proud of that concert. In America, the (musicians') connection with the conductor is as with management - it becomes political. You cannot conduct properly in this environment. I hate this enemy situation between management and orchestra members.

Neeme Jarvi

#8. Love yourself.
Be true to yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. A real king's life is perhaps a hard one; but a pretended king's is, I warrant, much harder.

Anthony Hope

#11. Eat and drink and sit with the mighty, and make yourself agreeable to them; for from the good you will learn what is good, but if you mix with the bad you will lose the intelligence which you already have.

Plato

#12. I have learned that trying again is important and decisivness is good. I have learned that silence hurts. I have learned about starting over and releasing pride.

Sabrina Ward Harrison

#13. To extend our memories by monuments, whose death we daily pray for, and whose duration we cannot hope, without injury to our expectations in the advent of the last day, were a contradiction to our belief.

Thomas Browne

#14. The truth hurts, but silence kills.

Mark Twain

#15. You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actresses. Where as in the U.K. you're in a much smaller market there.

India De Beaufort

#16. But why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done to our conscience?

Thomas A Kempis

#17. Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.

Graham Greene

#18. In the silence of her bedroom, she swore an oath to the moonlight that if Sam were hurt, no force in the world would hold her back from slaughtering everyone responsible.

Sarah J. Maas

#19. If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

John Fowles

#20. You can't lose your concentration at all. And there are times when you're on the stage, and you've got silence, which is wonderful, but you have to have the confidence to make you realize it's fine. You can't suddenly wobble and think, 'They're not interested.'

John Hurt

#21. I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

Zoe Saldana

#22. What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

Elie Wiesel

#23. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

C.S. Lewis

#24. The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily.

Robert Adams

#25. Did he touch you? Hurt you?" Jeb whispers in the silence.
"No. He was a gentleman."
Jeb frowns. "You mean a gentleroach .

A.G. Howard

#26. I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

C.S. Lewis

#27. I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.

Victoria Moran

#28. Which hurts the most, saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing and wishing you had?

Javan

#29. The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language.

Steve Sabol

#30. Unattended hurt, anger, and bitterness can destroy even the best marriage. Lean honestly into every hard place, each tender spot, because truthfulness hurts for a minute but silence is the kill shot.

Jen Hatmaker

#31. I ache to hear her tell me she loves me, but forcing her to put words to how she feels pushes her further into the silence she seems comfortable calling home now. I tell myself to be patient and understanding, but inside there's a longing only those words will fill, and it hurts to ignore it.

C.J. Redwine

#32. It was a few minutes before Helena could stop panting. She dared not read any further, or she'd crash through the connecting door and ravish Hastings - and she was far from sure how she felt about him.
As she was reading the manuscript of The Bride of Larkspear

Sherry Thomas