Hurtful Quotes

#1. I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful.

Carl R. Rogers

#2. Most grown people are like icebergs, three-tenths showing, seven-tenths submerged - that is why a collision with one of them is unexpectedly hurtful ...

Rumer Godden

#3. You can set a boundary with your words when you are honest and when you establish a consequence for another's hurtful actions.

Henry Cloud

#4. We don't take a macro view ... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.

Robert Pozen

#5. Sam: Do you always say exactly what you're thinking?
AJ: I try to. I like to know where I stand with people, and I figure I owe them the same courtesy. I mean, I'm never rude or hurtful about it, but I don't see any reason to be fake. That's a lot of work

Tamara Ireland Stone

#6. He loops his arm over my shoulder and we watch the waves in silence. We've had so many silences between us these last few months, bitter ones, loaded ones, empty ones, and hurtful ones. This one is perfect. It says things that words can't.

Lindsey Leavitt

#7. Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults.

Mitch Albom

#8. For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.

Carmen Electra

#9. But one thing that's constant is we've always appreciated fans. They put us on the map and they keep us on the map. I always put myself in their position. If I loved someone and had their posters all over my wall and met them and they were rude it would be very hurtful.

Cheryl James

#10. The sins of good men are greater than the sins of bad men. One lie from a truthful man is more hurtful than all the lies of a liar. The sins of a man after God's own heart have done more harm than all the crimes of all the Pagan emperors.

Hesba Stretton

#11. It's hard to forget hurtful things, isn't it? Children with autism have good memories. So it's much harder for them to forget bad experiences than it is for us. So fill them with as many good experiences as possible.

Keiko Tobe

#12. Never allow anyone or anything to demise or dull your truest identity. Hurtful words and harsh judgments have no impact when your north star, your guiding light, shines from the center of your chest and beats from your own truest heart.

Toni Sorenson

#13. It is better to be told a hurtful truth than to be told a comforting lie. In the end, the truth will make its way out and will hurt much more than it ever had to. - Anonymous

Randy Susan Meyers

#14. Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.

Nicholas Sparks

#15. I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people - immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just failed. I look back and sometimes cringe. But one regret as I get older is that I haven't been radical and wild enough.

Michael Leunig

#16. It's hurtful to know that Tommy Glavine won't be in a Braves uniform anymore.

John Schuerholz

#17. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

Benjamin Franklin

#18. This is what healing demands. Behavior that is hurtful, shameful, abusive, or demeaning must be brought into the fierce light of truth, and truth can be brutal.

Desmond Tutu

#19. What Zayd had said to her was hurtful. The words speared across the most sensitive part of her heart like how a gardening spear cut along the leaves, leaving the top part of the bushes bare and lost.

Diyar Harraz

#20. I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are referred to as 'do-gooders.' This is how a phrase that can be used to stop an argument dead becomes part of common usage.

Gunter Grass

#21. In the past two years, I've started the process of becoming a new man. I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful over the reckless and hurtful things I have done in my life, especially those which have brought me before you today.

Jack Abramoff

#22. ceasing to live the life of prayer the life of the spirit begins to fail, then those worldly things which are intended to be useful become hurtful and destructive.

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#23. A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

John Milton

#24. I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write good songs. If you don't like it, fair enough. But give me a break.

Elton John

#25. Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

Stephen King

#26. You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true.

Dan Chaon

#27. Reframing your past painful experiences and seeing them in a humorous light takes away the power and emotional charge attached to the memory of the hurtful event.

Miya Yamanouchi

#28. A kind word and forgiveness is better than a charitable deed followed by hurtful words: God is self-sufficient and forbearing.

Anonymous

#29. Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.

Liane Moriarty

#30. We need to regularly stop and take stock; to sit down and determine within ourselves which things are worth valuing and which things are not; which risks are worth the cost and which are not. Even the most confusing or hurtful aspects of life can be made more tolerable by clear seeing and by choice.

Epictetus

#31. Love is a two-way game, you cannot truly love one who does not love you, and neither can you force them to love you, better look past the hurtful deeds and search for the one who truly loves you and that will be right with you.

Auliq Ice

#32. The most harmful lies and the most hurtful, always contain a grain of truth," he said. "But nevertheless, lies they do remain.

Robin Jarvis

#33. The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.

Gloria Steinem

#34. Respond with love and kindness even to hurtful treatment.

Debasish Mridha

#35. I think the essence of the argument has always been, first of all, the Guild doesn't want writing on spec. And that's been a major problem over the years. But obviously, to the young writer that's unfair and it's discriminatory, and it can be very hurtful to one's career.

Rod Serling

#36. The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.

Alain De Botton

#37. Henry watched her go. And then he looked down at the sword he was carrying. When it came to weapons, he thought sadly, sometimes words could be just as hurtful, and just as forbidden.

Violet Haberdasher

#38. I'm not saying people should not be held accountable for their hurtful behavior. But the only thing blaming does is to keep the focus off you. It means you aren't dealing with your problems.

Art E. Berg

#39. Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.

Gautama Buddha

#40. When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.

Brene Brown

#41. There's a difference between people who do hurtful things because they're evil and people who do bad things because of their circumstances.

Bree Despain

#42. Someone on the internet referred to me as 'that horrible little man who's replacing Rob Lowe', which is hurtful, because I think of myself as a delightful little man.

Joshua Malina

#43. To now is to love, to see is a joy, but to lose is hurtful.

Rubye Armorer

#44. There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#45. She knew that oftentimes hurtful people were hurting people, so she determined to pray for them all the more.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#46. As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.

Rosalind Wiseman

#47. Dear Girls Across the Globe,
Let's stop body-shaming each other with hurtful comments about how another girl looks or doesn't look. We are all beautiful in our own unique way; so let's speak about each other with the dignity that we would want others to have when they speak about us.

Miya Yamanouchi

#48. Our spirits ... require nourishment. Just as there is food for the body, there is food for the spirit. The consequences of spiritual malnutrition are just as hurtful to our spiritual lives as physical malnutrition is to our physical bodies.

Dallin H. Oaks

#49. If someone says or does something hurtful, call upon heaven for protection and healing.

Doreen Virtue

#50. He was looking for the most hurtful way to tell the truth, but of course I already knew the truth.

John Green

#51. When she doesn't want to think about something sad or hurtful, she does what she instructed her own children and those she taught to do: Close your eyes and go somewhere safe and good. Picture something good.

Jill McCorkle

#52. Maybe looking away is about privilege. I need to think harder and longer about my choices and recognize that choosing whom I see and whom I don't see is one of the most hurtful functions of privilege.

Brene Brown

#53. When [our secrets] are sad and hurtful secrets, like my father's death, we can in a way honor the hurt by letting ourselves feel it as we never let ourselves feel it before, and then, having felt it, by laying it aside; we can start to take care of ourselves the way we take care of people we love.

Frederick Buechner

#54. Since our peace lies in loving as God loves, we must strive to love everyone. Our desire to find one "special person," one part of the Sonship who will complete us, is hurtful because it is delusional. It means we're seeking salvation in separation rather than in oneness. The

Marianne Williamson

#55. I practise selective deafness to hurtful remarks.

Scott Lynch

#56. The dominion of good men is profitable, not so much for themselves as for human affairs. But the dominion of bad men is hurtful chiefly to themselves who rule, for they destroy their own souls by greater licence in wickedness;

Augustine Of Hippo

#57. It's loneliness that makes us terrible and hurtful human beings.

Nina Berkhout

#58. Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.

Laura Wasser

#59. Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there.

Joel Osteen

#60. I feel especially vulnerable when I know I've let the reactive ego take control of my actions and it may have had hurtful implications with someone I love. I feel vulnerable when I don't listen to my conscience.

Richard Brancatisano

#61. Life is really weird, I thought. It's not just bad people who spread misery - even pretty things can be hurtful. So hard to understand

Nujood Ali

#62. let those who have abundance remember that they are surrounded with thorns, and let them take great care not to be pricked by them; and let those who have little and are very much hemmed in know that God planned [their poverty] to keep them from evil and hurtful snares.

John Calvin

#63. The world is ruthless, heartless, hurtful, spiteful, selfish and much more, but that is no reason for you to be the same. That will ensure there is no difference between you and them.
Be different - Be YOU

Namrata

#64. Be a teacher. If someone is acting hurtful toward you, chances are high that they're doing the same to others. By speaking up and taking action, you are helping others who might be hurt from this person unless they are reigned in.

Doreen Virtue

#65. If you scorn the fellowship of the brethren, you reject the call of Jesus Christ, and thus your solitude can only be hurtful to you.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#66. Neither parenting, Christian education, heritage, nor fine church involvement can alter anyone's essential sin nature. To lie, make self-centered choices, be destructive, or be deeply hurtful to oneself or others may be "out of character," but it is not outside of any human being's nature.

Rick Horne

#67. I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#68. Logan looked up at the big guy. "Do you ever hear yourself?" Blake beamed. "I'm my biggest fan." "Your only fan," Ayden said. "Hurtful, dude.

A&E Kirk

#69. A true friend will never lead you to do something hurtful towards yourself or others but will help out with good things towards you

Timothy Pina

#70. When something bad is written about me, I find it hurtful. So I choose not to look at it.

Patsy Kensit

#71. I think people tend to forget that as celebrities we are still human. We have the same emotions - we cry, we have fun, we laugh, we get sad, and we get hurt. When something is written about you, which millions of people are reading, and it is not true, imagine how hurtful it can be.

Sania Mirza

#72. People like to lay their whole life, and all of their own secrets out in front of the world. They make money off of it, and find satisfaction that way. I personally don't believe in that. I think it can be hurtful to yourself and those around you.

Dolph Lundgren

#73. Not all truths hurt. And not all that is hurtful is truthful.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#74. I have learned to accept the things I don't approve and those I cannot change and I have learned to release and to love those who did the most hurtful things in my life. I must admit, it is the most difficult lesson to contain but it's worth it.

Euginia Herlihy

#75. The useful is the noble and the hurtful is the base

Plato

#76. There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.

Tracey Emin

#77. To be stuck with that Kardashian label, that was so hurtful to me and to my career. I probably realized that too late - not that it would've affected my decisions in terms of who I dated, but it would've affected my decision to appear on the show.

Adrienne Bailon

#78. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are. We don't share thoughts, we share carefully sanitized, watered-down versions of them.

Jonathan Tropper

#79. Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!

Ivan Turgenev

#80. Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around.

Britt Ekland

#81. Love is never hurtful; It's never about forgetting who you are, it's about exploring yourself more.

Ankita Singhal

#82. To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

Brene Brown

#83. Time's many paradoxes. For instance: that when we are young and sensitive, we are also at our most hurtful; whereas when the blood begins to slow, when we feel less sharply, when we are more armoured and have learnt how to bear hurt, we tread more carefully. Nowadays

Julian Barnes

#84. Forgiveness gives me boundaries because it unhooks me from the hurtful person, and then I can act responsibly, wisely. If I am not forgiving them, I am still in a destructive relationship with them.

Henry Cloud

#85. Therefore, have done with this nonsense: you have no ground for hope: dismiss, at once, these hurtful thoughts and foolish wishes from your mind, and turn to your own duty, and the dull blank life that lies before you. You might have known such happiness was not for you.

Anne Bronte

#86. A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

Simone Weil

#87. How can we express our natural feelings of anger without hurting our children or attacking their self-esteem? And, at the same time, how can we teach our children to express their own feelings of anger in ways that are helpful, not hurtful?

Nancy Samalin

#88. People who don't know me have opinions about me. That's the part that's very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you've never met them or spent any time with them? So it's all based upon hearsay or things that they've read.

Rick Barry

#89. Feedback is helpful and constructive; criticism is hurtful and damaging.

Frank Sonnenberg

#90. It was really hurtful to me. I get so much mail from young girls who say, 'I look up to you, you're not as skinny as everyone else, I think you're beautiful.' So when they say that my body is 'ugly' and 'disgusting,' what does that make those girls feel like?

Tyra Banks

#91. While it has been hurtful to my family and me to read constantly in the media that I was under investigation, I am pleased that as expected my spending has been found to be in order.

Peter Slipper

#92. There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping. Only the ones you hide from yourself, which are the most damaging and hurtful of all. Truth is truth, and lie is lie. Tell yourself one's the other and all the world turns kilter.

David Hewson

#93. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful.

Russell Simmons

#94. Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Seneca.

#95. All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

Michel De Montaigne

#96. A lot of times, just because people are different, they're judged. I try not to let that concern me. But sometimes it can be hurtful, because I do feel judged sometimes for being a little different.

Erin Davie

#97. Every time you overhear something hurtful, I want you to do something kind for someone else.

Suze Orman

#98. It's an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the majority of our thoughts, at any given time, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make us look like the selfish and unkind bastards we are.

Jonathan Tropper

#99. It is extremely hurtful when women tell me I don't understand or know how they feel.

Kim Lyons

#100. I believe there's no such thing as a conflict that can't be ended. They're created and sustained by human beings. They can be ended by human beings. No matter how ancient the conflict, no matter how hateful, no matter how hurtful, peace can prevail.

George J. Mitchell