Top 100 People Hurting Quotes
#1. I receive a lot of letters on tour, and read about a lot of people hurting.
Alex Gaskarth
#2. There are alot of people hurting deep inside from experiences in life. Be strong and keep the faith. Even if it's like a flame in the dark.
Krystal Volney
#3. 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
#4. 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.
#5. 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
#6. People are hurting. People are suffering. But you can not get everywhere.
Iyanla Vanzant
#7. 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
#8. I get why no one bothers with the usual rules," ... "I was in the war, too, you know. Nothing looks or feels the same anymore, so what's the point?" ... "Still, I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else.
Paula McLain
#9. The fact is that hurting people hurt people, and children raised with condemnation in whatever form it takes are hurting people. Period. Words matter.
L.R. Knost
#10. Remember babe, hurting people hurt people. And that doesn't make it right, and it won't ever make it okay. I just don't want to see you with a hurting someone that hurts people every single day.
Hope Alcocer
#11. I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.
Jack Dee
#12. I think a lot of times there is a tendency in Washington to make rules because of something that was adverse or fraud or something like that. And we make a lot of rules and end up hurting a lot of innocent people that are trying to start up their companies.
Brad Wenstrup
#13. 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
#14. We have to learn to love people even if they are not giving you what you want ... and then not take it personally. If you feel hurt, you have to recognize that they are not hurting you because you are you, but because they are them. You have to try not to be so hard on yourself.
Krishna Das
#15. What we have created instead, as customers and employers and investors, is mountains of paper wealth so enormous that a handful of people in charge of them can take millions and billions for themselves without hurting anyone. Apparently.
Many members of my generation are disappointed.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#16. Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others
Roland Merullo
#17. Sin is a matter of opinion. Sins are only sins if you are hurting other people.
Corey Taylor
#18. 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
#19. Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. It was a simple truth he had understood for years, people hurt others when they are hurt, and hurting them back won't make a damn difference.
Taylor Adams
#23. 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
#24. A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.
John Mellencamp
#25. I just don't want to give out interviews. I just hate them. Inevitably, I ended up hurting some people or leaving some names out or getting quoted out of context.
Jerry Perenchio
#26. I don't mean good like going to church or not breaking laws. If, in your heart, you try to get through the day
without hurting other people, then you are a good person ...
Kaje Harper
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. I think it's important to protect people. To stand up for people [ ... ] That's what courage is. Not ... hurting people for no reason. - Al
Veronica Roth
#30. 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
#32. I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.
Judd Nelson
#33. Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.
Chris Christie
#34. What's really hurting me, the name Islam is involved, and Muslim is involved and causing trouble and starting hate and violence ... Islam is not a killer religion ... Islam means peace, I couldn't just sit home and watch people label Muslims as the reason for this problem.
Muhammad Ali
#35. 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
#36. God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
Francis Collins
#37. people sometimes do bad things because they are hurting, not because they are bad people.
Kelli Jae Baeli
#38. Hurting people, really, deeply hurting them - that isn't something you do on purpose. It's just a by-product of living.
Leila Sales
#40. I assume the Spirit is always whispering, "Abba", to God's children, assuring them that they are safe in His care. And he is continually calling them to become what God saved them to be, solid people, indestructibly alive, hurting perhaps, but consumed with pleasing the Father.
Larry Crabb
#41. I didn't like having secrets. Secrets only ended up hurting people.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#42. 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
#43. Sometimes when we think we're protecting ourselves, we're really hurting ourselves. And sometimes the people around us too.
Dale Peck
#44. I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.
Alastair Campbell
#45. Piper nodded. She wished she had the healing powers of Asclepius. She wished she could look at people and see what was hurting them, then whip out her prescription pad and make everything better.
Rick Riordan
#46. I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not interested in hurting their feelings.
Adam Carolla
#47. I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony.
Barry Hannah
#48. I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos.
Kenneth Clark
#49. Accidentally hurting yourself is way better than hurting other people.
Paula Stokes
#50. 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
#51. The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people.
Reza Aslan
#52. Thank you everyone for your kind words, support and prayers!! I'm hurting right now but it's great to know good people have my back!!
Roman Reigns
#53. But not hurting people and knowing how to get along with people, ... they're different.
Carol Plum-Ucci
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Television is not hurting. Television is in fantastic shape. It's just a golden age for other people.
Henry Blodget
#57. 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
#58. She knew that oftentimes hurtful people were hurting people, so she determined to pray for them all the more.
J.E.B. Spredemann
#59. 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
#60. You let people into your life and you ended up getting hurt. Or hurting them. Either way, the road to pain was paved with other people, and she wanted no part of it anymore
Stacia Kane
#61. 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
#62. Yes, they have all done some good work that has left our world a safer place today. But we need a more direct strategy that can endure for as long as the threat persists without hurting the sovereignty of nations and human rights of the same people it seeks to protect.
Ray Anyasi
#63. I always had a strong reluctance to hurt people, which is always the best way of hurting oneself.
Romain Gary
#64. 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
#65. I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.
Paula McLain
#66. The time must come when, great and pressing as change and betterment may be, they do not involve killing and hurting people.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#67. 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
#68. First things that a hurting person needs to do is break the habit of using other people as a narcotic to numb the dull aching of an inner void.
T.D. Jakes
#69. Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.
Bryant H. McGill
#70. 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
#71. Sometimes the people that w love and care about the most are the ones that end up hurting us the most.
Sheree' Griffin
#72. 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
#73. Deeply vulnerable and hurting within as you act tough outside. You do need people; you need them so much so that it scares you to death. You drive them away so they don't get too close; yet you regret it every time you do.
Rachel Reiland
#74. I'm always afraid, because I do most of my stuff at home, where nobody bothers me, and I don't have to stroke somebody's ego or be careful about hurting someone's feelings. But I also want to know that I can still go into the world and be with other people and make music.
Jack White
#75. 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
#76. I long to be ... Like Other People! The extraordinary, ungetatable, oddly cruel Other People, with their way of wantonly hurting and then accusing you of being thin-skinned, sulky, vindictive or ridiculous.
Jean Rhys
#77. She was fierce, quick to anger, her temper terrifying and unpredictable, her words deeply damaging when she wanted them to be. Because she had almost no need for people, she had no trouble hurting them. It seemed to enlarge her, give her strength. Quinn told her she had "poison blood".
Marjorie Celona
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.
Caitlin Rose
#82. Sometimes people set themselves up to be hurt by a situation, instead of hurting themselves directly. To absolve the blame.
Leah Raeder
#83. I hate people like that, people you have to protect while they keep hurting you.
Marlon James
#84. I want people to know if they have any hurting in their back, or any tingling or anything like that, go see a chiropractor and help yourself feel better about your body and take some of that pain away.
Jerry Rice
#85. The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It's a vicious cycle.
Susane Colasanti
#86. 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
#87. I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.
E.L. Konigsburg
#88. Do everything with your whole heart, or not at all. Don't put up with lies or with people who lie to you. Don't risk hurting people just for the fun of it. And lastly, your best foot shouldn't be put forward; it should be with you at all times - right there beside the other one.
C. JoyBell C.
#89. People like hurting each other but loving is not a waste.
Ai Yazawa
#90. Hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself.
Jilly Cooper
#91. 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
#92. Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.
Jackie Chan
#93. 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
#94. I really don't like hurting people; I like making people feel good.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#95. 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
#96. Everyone there including President Mugabe knows something needs to change because so many people are hurting.
Kirsty Coventry
#97. Why are people afraid of ghosts? 'Ooh, no, I wouldn't want to see one! I'd be too scared' - accompanied by a tremolo of fear in the voice - is the common reaction. This puzzles me. I'd think anyone would welcome he opportunity. I've never heard of a ghost hurting anybody.
Dick Cavett
#98. 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
#99. When you serve others, when you make somebody else's life better, when you lift up people, when you help heal those that are hurting, not only are they being blessed, but you're being blessed.
Joel Osteen
#100. You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.
Zoey Deutch
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