Top 66 Most Hurtful Sayings

#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

Most Hurtful Sayings #14896
#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

Most Hurtful Sayings #20647
#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

Most Hurtful Sayings #22425
#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

Most Hurtful Sayings #26104
#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

Most Hurtful Sayings #37524
#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

Most Hurtful Sayings #41604
#7. Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults.

Mitch Albom

Most Hurtful Sayings #49747
#8. For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing.

Carmen Electra

Most Hurtful Sayings #83357
#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

Most Hurtful Sayings #86227
#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

Most Hurtful Sayings #90217
#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

Most Hurtful Sayings #101894
#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

Most Hurtful Sayings #138941
#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

Most Hurtful Sayings #145982
#14. Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.

Nicholas Sparks

Most Hurtful Sayings #146460
#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

Most Hurtful Sayings #148624
#16. It's hurtful to know that Tommy Glavine won't be in a Braves uniform anymore.

John Schuerholz

Most Hurtful Sayings #148778
#17. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

Benjamin Franklin

Most Hurtful Sayings #160568
#18. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #166991
#19. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #175275
#20. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #186533
#21. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #187225
#22. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #208039
#23. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #223808
#24. A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

John Milton

Most Hurtful Sayings #242186
#25. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #246842
#26. Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

Stephen King

Most Hurtful Sayings #288749
#27. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #302886
#28. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #305378
#29. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #308697
#30. A kind word and forgiveness is better than a charitable deed followed by hurtful words: God is self-sufficient and forbearing.

Anonymous

Most Hurtful Sayings #310474
#31. Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them.

Liane Moriarty

Most Hurtful Sayings #314687
#32. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #321396
#33. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #325706
#34. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #338859
#35. The most harmful lies and the most hurtful, always contain a grain of truth," he said. "But nevertheless, lies they do remain.

Robin Jarvis

Most Hurtful Sayings #340581
#36. The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends.

Gloria Steinem

Most Hurtful Sayings #363853
#37. Respond with love and kindness even to hurtful treatment.

Debasish Mridha

Most Hurtful Sayings #375479
#38. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #380810
#39. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #398095
#40. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #409277
#41. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #412029
#42. Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.

Gautama Buddha

Most Hurtful Sayings #421362
#43. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #422270
#44. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #423381
#45. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #432917
#46. To now is to love, to see is a joy, but to lose is hurtful.

Rubye Armorer

Most Hurtful Sayings #437834
#47. There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Most Hurtful Sayings #438818
#48. She knew that oftentimes hurtful people were hurting people, so she determined to pray for them all the more.

J.E.B. Spredemann

Most Hurtful Sayings #439535
#49. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #456192
#50. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #457515
#51. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #485752
#52. If someone says or does something hurtful, call upon heaven for protection and healing.

Doreen Virtue

Most Hurtful Sayings #487794
#53. He was looking for the most hurtful way to tell the truth, but of course I already knew the truth.

John Green

Most Hurtful Sayings #510250
#54. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #516419
#55. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #529485
#56. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #541294
#57. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #717651
#58. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #757648
#59. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #791667
#60. 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

Most Hurtful Sayings #855528
#61. You're too sensitive' victims of sexual abuse are told over and over by those whose reality depends on being insensitive. Most adults who have been in the victim role cringe when anyone tells them they are sensitive. In fact, sensitivity is a lovely trait and one to be cherished in any human being.

Renee Fredrickson

Most Hurtful Sayings #1222906
#62. Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.

Plutarch

Most Hurtful Sayings #1236971
#63. You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Most Hurtful Sayings #1508359
#64. . . . so many fond mothers spoil their children, and has made it questionable whether negligence or indulgence be most hurtful: but I am inclined to think, that the latter has done most harm.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Most Hurtful Sayings #1561005
#65. Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies

Lisa Vanderpump

Most Hurtful Sayings #1813393
#66. The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Most Hurtful Sayings #1851678

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