Hurtful Things Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. My mind felt numb, like I couldn't really grasp the hurtful things that I had just recently learned. I was well aware that it was my body's defense mechanism. Shock always did that to a person...enveloped them in a cocoon of decreased sensitivity to allow them to process their hurt.

Courtney Cole

#5. drawing fair and intelligent distinctions has never been one of their long suits. Some of 'em, sad to say, are only seeking revenge for hurtful things that happened to them as children

Anonymous

#6. At times we're going to get angry. Anger is an emotion God built into us. But we don't have to blow up and say hurtful things that are going to damage our relationships. Learn to take a step back, collect your thoughts, and think about what you want to say.

Joel Osteen

#7. 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

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

Doreen Virtue

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

Nina Berkhout

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

John Green

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. I practise selective deafness to hurtful remarks.

Scott Lynch

#16. 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

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

Gautama Buddha

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

J.E.B. Spredemann

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

Laurell K. Hamilton

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

Rubye Armorer

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

#27. Real secrets mean more than hiding that card game from you daddy. Real secrets can be hurtful. Make people do bad things.

Augusta Scattergood

#28. Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Aristotle.

#29. When a man is to travel into a far country ... one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a bundle of staves would be troublesome. Thus a competency of these outward things may happily help us in the way to heaven, whereas abundance may be hurtful.

Richard Sibbes

#30. I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don't outrun pain.

Jewel

#31. People should get their information from the source with facts before sharing it. Rumors can be lots of different opinions, based on what other people think. This is where lies begin to build and develop into things that are harmful to others.

Ellen J. Barrier

#32. I try to keep a positive intention and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.

Russell Simmons

#33. I think people can get a little weirded out by pain, suffering, and death. They don't know what to do so they end up saying things that are hurtful to people who have experienced loss.

Matt Chandler

#34. I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.

Lamar Odom

#35. When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'

Joyce Meyer

#36. 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

#37. Mason knew what it was like to say things you didn't mean, to just have them vomit out, and then feel that crushing ache when you realized you could never pull them back.

Dan Krokos

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. 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

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. 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

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

Joel Osteen

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. I have never had the desire, need, nor the inclination to ever be the one to make the one I love cry."


~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

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

Benjamin Franklin

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

John Schuerholz

#50. 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

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

Nicholas Sparks

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

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

Carmen Electra

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

Mitch Albom

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. 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

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

Anonymous

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. 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

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

Debasish Mridha

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

Gloria Steinem

#70. There are some people that should stay quiet, because they understand. As there are those that should stay quiet, because they don't understand. Some things are better left unsaid or voiced.

Anthony Liccione

#71. 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

#72. 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

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

Liane Moriarty

#74. 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

#75. 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

#76. I knew it was easier to drill things in than to take them out.'
'It's like a screw!' Craig-Vyvyan shouted.... 'If you pull off it's head, you never get it out.

Mark Helprin

#77. 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

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

Stephen King

#79. 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

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

John Milton

#81. 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

#82. 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