Quotes About Friends That Hurt You

#1. One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

Jonathan Swift

#2. A stupid friend can hurt you more than a smart enemy.

Erol Ozan

#3. You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#4. Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your life after awhile and leave a hurt that is worse than the emptiness before they came.

L.M. Montgomery

#5. If you don't know a name, you can't be hurt when they go. I have no friends anymore, all are lost.

Patricia Hamill

#6. Our "protective bubbles" - our houses, our cars, our friends, our online identities - might make us feel secure, but most of it's just an illusion. It's easy to get hurt, just like it's easy to hurt other people.

Paula Stokes

#7. Best friends, no matter what they do or how much they hurt you, it only hurts as much as it does because they are your best friend. And none of us are perfect. Mistakes were made for best friends to forgive; it's what makes being a best friend official.

J.A. Redmerski

#8. The knives of betrayal and drama cut deep and hurt ... but they also trim away the nonsense and reveal your true friends.

Steve Maraboli

#9. Friends hurt friends. They don't mean to, but it happens. So friendship is made of forgiveness as much as it is love.

Toni Sorenson

#10. What your enemies know can hurt you,
but what your friends know can destroy you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#11. Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "yeah, but not to hurt, to help.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#12. I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Ann Richards

#13. May I propose a little toast? For all the ones who hurt the most. For all the friends that we have lost. Let's give them one more round of applause.

Regina Spektor

#14. Logic and loss aren't always great friends. Sometimes we mourn for the things that hurt us. Sometimes, that's okay.

Seanan McGuire

#15. DON'T GET TOO CLOSE.
friends can only hurt you.
DON'T SAY A WORD.
it may be your last.
DON'T SLOW DOWN.
they will catch you.

Michelle Gagnon

#16. Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends; He hurts me most who lavishly commends.

Charles Churchill

#17. I can honestly say and swear on my patch that I have never in my life hurt anybody that I really didn't feel had it coming, because they was either trying to hurt me or my friends. If everybody was like that it [life] would be real different.

Sonny Barger

#18. Seeing Carter hurt was the final insult. My grandparents had been possessed. My friends had been attacked, and my birthday ruined. But my brother was off-limits. No one was allowed to hurt my brother.

Rick Riordan

#19. Looking back, it made no sense for my college friends and me to distance ourselves from the hard-won achievements of earlier feminists. We should have cheered their efforts. Instead, we lowered our voices, thinking the battle was over, and with this reticence we hurt ourselves.

Sheryl Sandberg

#20. It never hurts to have friends around, so that's why you'd form a crew.

Neil Armstrong

#21. To make real friends you have to put yourself out there. Sometimes people will let you down, but you can't let that stop you. If you get hurt, you just pick yourself up, dust off your feelings, and try again.

Kristin Hannah

#22. Most of my favorite people in my life are gay. It's something I'm super passionate about, because whenever I would see my friends get bullied, or my brother get hurt for his sexuality, I would become a raging lunatic.

Ariana Grande

#23. If somebody is going to kill me or hurt me..., let's be the enemy not my friends!

Deyth Banger

#24. The problem with having friends was that you might lose them. Or they might get hurt.

Gwenda Bond

#25. 'this is real. This life. We're really here - this is really happening. Suffering is real. When you hurt people, it's real. When you fuck one of our best friends, that's a real thing and it hurts me.

Zadie Smith

#26. They say that only very good friends quarrel. But at the end of the day a quarrel is a fight between two people's egos. Since people cannot understand each other by just being honest. May be its impossible to live your whole life without getting hurt but don't hurt the people close to you.

Ai Yazawa

#27. Real friends. The kind that don't purposely hurt your feelings or stop liking you for no reason.

Kristin Hannah

#28. I've definitely been in relationships with friends where I wanted to do something different than I know a friend has. It's that complicated balance between wanting to do what you know is right for you and not wanting to hurt someone's feelings.

Mickey Sumner

#29. Some people said beware of enemies. Some said beware of friends and some said beware of frenemies, but the most dangerous people are those that will hurt you and still play the victim.

Uzoma Nnadi

#30. It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine: First and most important, my family; also my friends, my staff, my Cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family, and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.

William J. Clinton

#31. I talk to friends who get their feelings hurt when they read Twitter mentions. I have an amazing solution - don't read Twitter mentions.

Sarah Silverman

#32. Hurting a softhearted caring person would please you but loss is yours; you would have friends less one.

Vikrmn

#33. Best friends make the worst enemies, they know all your secrets and how to hurt you the most.

Alyson Noel

#34. Every sorrow is different, but you get through 'em the same way. Plenty of rest, good food, and keeping your family and friends close by." She paused a minute. "A lot of prayer doesn't hurt either.

Shannon Hitchcock

#35. It's not your enemies who are likeliest to hurt you. It is, always, those you trust.

Rachel Caine

#36. Isn't that what friends do?" It hurt to hear the uncertainty in his voice. "You're my friend Kate, and you're miserable. What could possibly be more important than taking care of you?

Aimee Carter

#37. She said she'd be fine with you, so I'm gonna get out of here, but Dillon, don't hurt her. She's had enough of the stuff you and your friends do. You wanna pick on me, go ahead, but don't do it to her.

Melyssa Winchester

#38. It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?

Willa Cather

#39. All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous to men of real ability or merit. It aids only those who lack other claims to public support.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#40. Yessir, some things is sin 'cause God says so. Some things is sin 'cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid.

David Hopper

#41. It's shitty I guess. They're my friends. But ... everything I want to talk about I can't say to them. It feels so separate, like I've touched something that's taken the color out of me.

Kendare Blake

#42. Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Nikki Sixx

#43. I always tell the girls never take it seriously, if you never take it seriously you never get hurt, if you never get hurt you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely just go to the record store and visit your friends.

Cameron Crowe

#44. Cut off the dead wood before it kills the tree.' If you have friends who backstab you, get rid of them now before they hurt you.

Scott Monk

#45. Once, maybe I would have thought you a fool, but ... well, that's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion? You have to shut out that voice that whispers about betrayal, and just hope that your friends aren't going to hurt you.

Brandon Sanderson

#46. I despise the rituals of fake friendship. I wish we could just claw each other's eyes out and call it a day; instead we put on huge radiant smiles and spout compliments until our teeth hurt from the saccharine sweetness of it all.

Jody Gehrman

#47. One of the few advantages of reaching my age is that I've seen it all. Learned not to judge anyone until I've walked in their shoes. That's why we all need friends, isn't it, to help us out with the weak spots? And sometimes the weak spots nobody can see are the ones that hurt the most.

Debbie Johnson

#48. With friends, if you keep making an effort to reach out and you keep getting hurt, you eventually stop trying. But it's much harder to give up on family. Somewhere deep down you want it to work so badly that you keep making the same mistake over and over again.

Tori Spelling

#49. It is easier with strangers, for they touch your life but for an instant. You will not disappoint them, for you owe them nothing; neither do they expect anything. Friends you can hurt, for they expect everything.

David Gemmell

#50. Grandfather says that when your friends die you must not cry. You must not hurt anybody or do harm to anyone. You must not fight. Do right always. It will give you satisfaction in life.

Wovoka

#51. Through the twist and turns of life, I find myself so grateful for my friends. Even though sometimes the days can seem so dark, and my heart can feel so hurt, I am never alone; my friends are beside me.

Steve Maraboli

#52. Its funny when I'm cyber bullied(anonymously) because when people do it to me,I don't think of how much I want to hurt them or punch them in the face like my friends do ... but I go on this site and write a quote to them back, hoping to kill them with kindness.

Ashley Jackson

#53. Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.

Lex Luger

#54. Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#55. The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.

Anais Nin

#56. I'm always one who will lash out at anyone hurts my friends, viciously, kind of. I'm very protective of the people I love.

Dylan O'Brien

#57. Don't worry about making friends; don't worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can't hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can't stand you.

Bear Bryant

#58. We can be much, much more than we were taught in teachers college ... more than stern ladies at the front of the room who teach children to recite by rote. We can be, we MUST BE, learning partners, champions, observers, explorers, friends- and , for these special hurt children we need to be family

Jenny Bowen