
Top 100 People Hurting People Quotes
#1. As I travel around the country, I'm finding a common denominator - people are hurting and going through regardless of race and creed. The common denominators are people HURTING people. The cure also has a common denominator - people start HELPING people.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#2. People are hurting. People are suffering. But you can not get everywhere.
Iyanla Vanzant
#3. People who hate you because of a mere jealousy over your success hurt themselves in disguise. This is because you carry an image of who they wish they had become. Don't hate them back because they may also become like you one day and it will mean hurting that image you carry!
Israelmore Ayivor
#4. When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.
Eric Bana
#5. Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others
Roland Merullo
#6. I know so many people who have gone through just not very good situations, and sometimes you just need a song to help pick you up out of it, especially if you're going through the hurting part.
Ashton Shepherd
#7. That is the way convince people. Or change them and prevent them from hurting whether themselves and others. Art is the most effective form of communication.
You can use it to lift the human spirit and make them understand that there is more to life than their next drug use.
Jennifer Echols
#8. Sometimes when you try too hard to protect the people you care about, you end up hurting them instead.
- Jase, Time Mends (Timber Wolves #2)
Tammy Blackwell
#9. I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
Laila Ali
#10. People are not doing well financially. I mean, wages are down from 2000. They're down from 2007. 2000 - down. Not going - they're below what they were in 2000. People are hurting. Things aren't going well for them.
Jeff Sessions
#11. The most important lesson in life is to learn to love those who are hurting you. Because those people who are hurting you, in reality they are hurting themselves. Be kind to them.
Debasish Mridha
#12. The right people love you and they will prove it by supporting you, the wrong people don't care about you and they will prove it by hurting you. Don't be with the wrong people, be smart?
Werley Nortreus
#13. Everyone gets so worried about the people who are still living when the people who are really hurting are the dead ones. People like Grandma and Graham.They don't exist anymore.
There is nothing worse than that
Matthew Green
#14. I didn't like having secrets. Secrets only ended up hurting people.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#15. I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.
Chester Brown
#16. I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
Barry Hannah
#17. Jesus will always move away from religious drama and toward the needs of people who are hurting. Jesus will always go out of his way to find and minister to people who others will go out of their way to avoid. I love him for that.
Steven Furtick
#18. Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices, I don't see it.
Debbie Harry
#19. It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn't stop! I just could not stop picking!
J.D. Salinger
#20. This is a deep and personal topic in our society today. Read the papers. America is hurting because of it. For God's sake, speak up. Don't we need to learn respect for people's feelings? What is going to school for? To learn how to add?
Hal Holbrook
#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. I can't ignore someone that's in need or is hurting. How can people just turn their heads from something like that.
Michael Jackson
#23. There are people out there who enjoy hurting and scaring others. They're going to keep doing it until you make them stop.
Jim Butcher
#24. In a world of a billion Christians, there should never be a moment on the planet when hurting people feel orphaned by God.
Johnnie Moore
#25. Rich people making their houses bigger in order to make their lives happier wind up hurting their own marriages. There's a deep irony here. Do the couples perceive that irony?
Tucker Carlson
#26. The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize is we know almost nothing about God and therefore we should be eager to search and to learn.
John Templeton
#27. Sometimes the people that w love and care about the most are the ones that end up hurting us the most.
Sheree' Griffin
#28. Renunciation is not about pushing something away, it is about letting go. It's facing the fact that certain things cause us pain, and they cause other people pain. Renunciation is a commitment to let go of things that create suffering. It is the intention to stop hurting ourselves and others.
Noah Levine
#29. The thing to hold on to in forgiving is that most often the people who are hurting us do not know what they are doing. In fact it is fair to say that none of us knows the impact of our actions in relationships, at least for a lot of the time. We are all unaware of our power to hurt and to heal.
Carla L. Rueckert
#30. Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve the problem rather than finding the truth in what the person is saying.
David D. Burns
#31. Sometimes people hurt more than they can handle ... And sometimes they don't know how to ask for help. They're so caught up in their own pain, they end up hurting everyone around them.
Rebecca Donovan
#32. War is a thug's game. The thug strikes first and harder. He doesn't go by rules and he isn't afraid of hurting people.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#33. Sometimes people set themselves up to be hurt by a situation, instead of hurting themselves directly. To absolve the blame.
Leah Raeder
#34. Life is about doing the things that make you happy, not the things that please other people. If you can please other people, that's a plus, but as long as you're not hurting anyone, you're golden.
Nicole Richie
#35. Mingling with people, hurting them, getting hurt by them ... that's how you learn about others ... and about yourself. If you don't you'll never be able to care about anyone but yourself.
Natsuki Takaya
#36. People like hurting each other but loving is not a waste.
Ai Yazawa
#37. Is this what nice is? Letting people think things that aren't true just to avoid hurting their feelings? Being nice is dishonest.
Amy Reed
#38. Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.
Jackie Chan
#39. People who are hurting don't need Avoiders, Protectors, or Fixers. What we need are patient, loving witness. People to sit quietly and hold space for us. People to stand in helpful vigil to our pain.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#40. I really don't like hurting people; I like making people feel good.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#41. We can't keep living with what other people want for us, or don't want for us," Yena said. "We have to live for what we want. But everything that's in your head, the things you've been told to believe and do, you can't just throw it all out like bathwater, even when you know it's hurting you. So
Foz Meadows
#42. All these prohibitions old people think up. I think people should be free to do what they want unless it's hurting someone else.
John Updike
#43. Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that not hurting people is ten bloody thousand times more bloody important than being right.
David Mitchell
#44. People are hurting out there, perhaps they are ready to start a conversation about whether an AR-15 belongs in the hands of a citizen, whether a citizen should be able 6,000 rounds on the internet.
Brian Williams
#45. Again, this made me think of Daisy, and her white lie about the dresses. We were willing to do so much for the people we loved, even if it meant hurting ourselves. Maybe that, in the end, was what love
all kinds
was really all about.
Sarah Dessen
#46. That sounds silly, doesn't it? Running away just because you don't want to hurt somebody's feelings? But did you ever think how much of our lives we spend,dodging and twisting and making things difficult for ourselves, to avoid hurting somebody's feelings. Even people with absolutely no claim on us?
Carter Dickson
#47. In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.
Fred Thompson
#48. To quote Homer Simpson, alcohol is the cause and solution to all of life's problems. I don't think there's anything wrong with drinking and drug use, if people can do it and not hurt themselves. But it got to the point where I was really hurting myself.
Moby
#49. I think as long as you're not being malicious and you're not hurting people then you should not be ashamed of what you do.
Lily Allen
#50. Maybe it's impossible for people to live their lives without hurting anyone.
Hotaru Odagiri
#51. You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.
George H. W. Bush
#52. People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.
Dean Koontz
#53. ...if you don't tell people you're hurt, they're not going to stop hurting you."
Dilly snorted. "Yeah, or they're going to hurt you twice as much.
Lyn Gala
#54. I am a product ... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I make sense out of ridiculous situations, but in the end, it's all about laughter. It's all about your cheek hurting, your stomach hurting.
Carlos Mencia
#56. There is a down side to everything if you don't understand what the consequences of what you are saying in your music you could possibly end up getting yourself killed or hurting other people because of your carelessness.
Assata Shakur
#57. Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful
just stupid.)
Robert A. Heinlein
#58. You've got to rely on people. I know you're hurting because of all the bad things that have happened to you, but in order to live, truly live, you've got to feel pain, you've got to trust, and you've got to love.
Kim Izzo
#59. A lot of these women had to overcome cultural conditioning against hurting other people, or even confronting anyone physically.
Carrie Vaughn
#61. The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people.
Tullian Tchividjian
#62. If you need help or advice, ask for it, but don't worry too much about hurting other people's feelings by not doing what they say. If your gut says no, trust it. Do what seems right.
Ariel Gore
#63. With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other.
Michael Franti
#64. A very hurting thing for Black Americans - to feel that we can't love our enemies. People forget what a great tradition we have as African-Americans in the practice of forgiveness and compassion. And if we neglect that tradition, we suffer.
Bell Hooks
#65. It's hard to decide matters of the heart, especially when Self-love is rooted in our decisions. You'll need to balance your needs with the people you love in order to avoid hurting others.
Auliq Ice
#66. Some people have different ways than yours of having fun. You can't judge 'em, you can't dismiss 'em, and you can't say, 'what an idiot, what a food.' You just have to accept their truth of
their harmony with what they wanna do in their heart. As long as it's not hurting anyone.
Gary Busey
#67. People perceive her [Jill Stein ] as hurting [Hillary] Clinton. I think she's doing very well. I don't think the numbers will be good enough for them to be in the debate.
Donald Trump
#68. I can't let the baggage of my private life get into work. Artists are more fragile than normal people. But I know that I am a role model for zillions of people, so no matter how deep you are hurting, you need to come out strong.
Bipasha Basu
#69. When people are hurting, what they really need is someone who is fully there for them - not someone who is condescending or officious. The only way for you to be there for them is by facing your fear or anger, whatever feelings cause you to shut down.
Pema Chodron
#70. I still say I can do whatever I want as long as I'm not hurting anybody else. I don't understand why more people aren't like that.
Rose McGowan
#71. The story serves as an important reminder to all of us that sometimes, when people are hurting, they don't need our advice and theological theorizing as much as they need our understanding and comfort.
Justin Lee
#72. It's about people who take their frustration out on everyone around them. I never raise my voice. Cutting myself or hurting myself is the way I deal with anger.
Richey Edwards
#73. We don't usually think of what we eat as a matter of ethics. Stealing, lying, hurting people - these acts are obviously relevant to our moral character. In ancient Greece and Rome, ethical choices about food were considered at least as significant as ethical choices about sex.
Peter Singer
#74. It is rarely comfortable to talk about climate change. Bringing something difficult up, it feels like somehow by mentioning this I'm kind of causing it, I'm hurting these people. But you're not hurting these people; climate change is hurting these people. You're telling them they're being hurt.
Margaret D. Klein
#75. Let's be the people who look at the hurting until we hurt with them. No hurrying past, turning away, or shifting of eyes. No pretending or glossing over. Let's look at the face until we see the person.
Max Lucado
#76. In the wake of newly-alleged prisoner abuse this week, Senator John McCain said that continued mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is hurting the nation's image. Also hurting the nation's image: letting people drown when it rains.
Amy Poehler
#78. The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting.
John Osteen
#79. If a good man can't sleep after hurting people,
then he should learn much more to be a leader.
Toba Beta
#80. Madlen: 'It's a relief to me, Lady Queen, that in your own pain, you take no interest in hurting yourself.'
Bitterblue: 'Why would I? Why should I? It's foolish. I would like to kick the people who do it.'
Madlen: 'That would, perhaps, be redundant, Lady Queen.
Kristin Cashore
#81. The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.
Kristin Armstrong
#82. What they don't know won't hurt htem. You're not hurting anyone by doing what you love and being around people that make you happy. ~Evangeline
Penelope Ward
#83. This is the residue of sin on planet earth. Things are broken. People are hurting. The night is here. Darkness is upon us. Yet shining in the night is a Savior, and He has come to shine on you.
Louie Giglio
#84. Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#85. So I pray for people who are hurting, that they be filled with air and light. Air and light heal; they somehow get into those dark, musty places, like spiritual antibiotics. We don't have to figure out how this all works - "Figure it out" is not a good slogan. It's enough to know it does.
Anne Lamott
#86. What my friends didn't know about me and I didn't know about Amma is that people who are hurting don't need Avoiders, Protectors, or Fixers. What we need are patient, loving witnesses. People to sit quietly and hold space for us. People to stand in helpless vigil to our pain.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#88. Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.
Ellen DeGeneres
#90. As long as you're not hurting anybody else, as long as you're being kind to people and you're doing what you love, only good things can come of it.
Jason Silva
#91. The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
Isobelle Carmody
#92. My secretary stopped and got gas (Wednesday) for $2.67. (Yesterday at) the same gas station, she got gas again. It was $3.12, ... It has really gotten very, very restrictive to people. It's really hurting ... My impression, of course, is that they have certainly gone up more than they should have.
Andrew Spano
#93. You never live an inch without involvement and hurting people and fucking yourself everlastingly.
James Agee
#94. How well u treat the wicked people, they do nto give up their wickedness. They derive pleasure in hurting others. A serpent made to drink milk, it ejects poison only.
Chanakya
#95. If we could all love each and every person that crosses our path a little bit more, we could attain inner peace with the knowledge that many people on this planet would be hurting a whole lot less.
Molly Friedenfeld
#96. The only way to stop hurting other people is to stop hurting yourself.
Menna Van Praag
#97. I'm sorry he hurt you, but hurting yourself isn't going to change that. You can't control what people do or how they treat you. You can only control how you react to it.
Jay McLean
#98. It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.
Jennifer Niven
#99. Your relationship may be "Breaking Up," but you won't be "Breaking Down." If anything your correcting a mistake that was hurting four people, you and the person your with, not to mention the two people who you were destined to meet.
D. Ivan Young
#100. People are also dying from vaccinations. Evan, my son, died in front of me for two minutes. You ask any mother in the autism community if we'll take the flu, the measles, over autism and day of the week. I think they need to wake up and stop hurting our kids.
Jenny McCarthy
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