Quotes About Hurting Someone

#1. There's no quantifying someone else's problems as big or small. Although to one person, it may seem slight...there's no way to tell how greatly that same thing may be hurting someone else inside.

Hotaru Odagiri

#2. I've worked with people and I've known people that were really competitive, but I've always said that I take an Elizabeth Bennett philosophy of life - I laugh. I love my job, but if it means hurting someone, I won't do it.

Anne Hathaway

#3. I've always had a tendency to push the envelope as far as it can go without hurting someone's feelings.

Martha Wainwright

#4. Soon we will be strangers. No, we can never be that. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy. We will be dangerous acquaintances with a history.

Hanif Kureishi

#5. Rand rubbed his hands over his face. His anger had dissipated. I'm sorry, Yelena. I was backed into a corner and I couldn't get out without hurting someone.

Maria V. Snyder

#6. All lies fall somewhere into these five categories. These are to: avoid hurting someone; avoid feeling guilt or shame; avoid conflict and stress (minor to major); gain a social advantage; avoid a significant loss.

Caesar Lincoln

#7. It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.

Dallas Willard

#8. Hurting someone is an act of reluctant intimacy.

Hanif Kureishi

#9. To me everyone goes through that at some point in adolescence, you know. There's - you meet someone when you're a young teenager, and they're never right for you, and you always wind up hurting someone on the way to figuring out all this stuff. But it was a fun writing process.

Don Hertzfeldt

#10. Although we are physically laid to rest, we meet again and again to make amends. If I hurt someone in this life, I'll have to relive it to make amends. It helps you realize that by hurting someone, you are actually hurting yourself.

Shari Arison

#11. No matter what I do, I'm hurting someone. - Katniss Everdeen

Suzanne Collins

#12. I didn't realize you could break your own heart by hurting someone else's. (Mackenzie)

C.M. Seabrook

#13. I'm always afraid of hurting someone. But if I never tell them anything, I hurt myself more.

Lisa M. Cronkhite

#14. No one ever plans on hurting someone else, it just happens.

Bethany Lopez

#15. For me, I was given a great gift by my father and my mother in that I was never told any idea was bad. I was told I could explore any thought as long as I wasn't hurting someone else.

Jennifer Lynch

#16. There's no such thing as hurting someone for their own good. There's only hurting someone for your own good.

Kate Bornstein

#17. To carry a secret is to play with fire. Try to pass it on and you'd risk hurting someone else. Hold on to it and eventually you'd get burned.

Emily Thorne

#18. 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

#19. I think you have to be careful about not hurting someone. The last thing I'd want to do is make a fool of someone, unless they saw the humor in it.

Charlyne Yi

#20. There was nothing more painful than hurting someone you loved.

Veronica Rossi

#21. My heart gets very tender when it comes to playing someone who has wronged someone else. I almost feel like it's easier for me to play having been wronged than it is to actually feel like you had an active part in hurting someone.

Jessica Capshaw

#22. You know what, the thing that breaks my heart is that there's no way I can answer it without hurting someone on either side.

Brian D. McLaren

#23. I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.

David Levithan

#24. Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.

Cindy Chupack

#25. You see, I'd behaved pretty badly. Losing my head about someone I didn't really love and hurting someone I did. Why is one so stupid?"
"The heart has its reasons," said Will, "and the endocrines have theirs.

Aldous Huxley

#26. Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so the guy doesn't even know he's been hurt until much later. Then he finds out. Then his dick falls off.

Margaret Atwood

#27. 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

#28. No matter what I did, I was hurting someone. There was a constant battle of emotions going on inside my head, but even though I still cared about Tom all I wanted, all I needed, was Mika.

Shanice Williams

#29. Hurting someone will not impress them. Intelligence requires empathy to work. Water is wet. The sky is pink through these rose-tinted glasses.

F.K. Preston

#30. 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

#31. Hurting someone with your tongue is just as bad as beating them with your fists.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#32. QUOTES BOUQUET: Hurting Someone With The Truth Is Better Than Making Them Happy With The Lie.

Adnan

#33. Hurting someone you loved was even worse than being hurt. That stayed with you longer, and weighted you down all through the night into dawn.

Claudia Gray

#34. Take revenge, not by hurting someone, but by succeeding in life and helping those who were hurting you in the past.

Debasish Mridha

#35. I almost - I almost lost him because I didn't want to hurt you. That was my mistake. It's not a fairytale. Someone always gets hurt. But I'm done hurting him.

Alessandra Hazard

#36. Imperfection is simply not a good enough excuse to have someone keep hurting you just because they feel like it.

Pandora Poikilos

#37. There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.

Ashton Kutcher

#38. The first way not to shake hands is executed by receiving someone's hand in yours and proceeding to squeeze it tightly, hurting the other party as if they were responsible for a past death in your family, or your adoption as a child.

Wes Locher

#39. If we harm someone else, we're inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us to be able to objectify someone else, to deny them as a living, feeling being - someone who wants to be happy, just as we do.

Sharon Salzberg

#40. What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

Haruki Murakami

#41. If it feels right to recycle our waste or purchase solar panels for our house or rescue an animal or adopt a child or stop someone from hurting another or donate our time, money, or goods to charity, then do it.

Bryan Kest

#42. Next to hurting my family, cheating on me is the worst thing someone could do.

Robert Buckley

#43. But my manners also came from when I was in college and began participating in critiques. You have to speak with someone respectfully about their work and be honest and open, without hurting them.

Tim Gunn

#44. The man she'd glimpsed that morning, and the one who'd cared enough to put his arms around a packmate who was hurting, he was dangerous, someone who spoke to her soul beyond the primitive tug of sex.

Nalini Singh

#45. Sometimes you may have to trade places with someone who is hurting.

Joel Osteen

#46. Whenever you hurt someone, you bring torment into your own life.

Debasish Mridha

#47. Hurt shouldn't pile up like this inside of someone. No one should suffocate beneath pain on top of pain. You should have time to breathe, time to scream it out until it doesn't exist anymore.

Sharde Richardson

#48. Love is dirty-sloppy-stupid. The problem has always been: How do we contain such a dangerous substance (love) in the confines of holy matrimony without hurting or killing someone?
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Michael Ben Zehabe

#49. If someone hurts you, he is hurting himself. He may not be able to escape that hurt in his lifetime.

Debasish Mridha

#50. You don't know me, but I know about you ... I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

Lurlene McDaniel

#51. 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

#52. Your job is not to judge. Your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken, and to heal the hurting.

Joel Osteen

#53. I may cause someone to feel badly, not because I'm doing something to them, but because the way in which I see might cause pain. But I am not doing the hurting.

Vivian Gornick

#54. Sorry for hurting you, she said right in my ear, but it wasn't really an apology, because you don't bite someone's earlobe to tell them you're sorry.

Maggie Stiefvater

#55. 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

#56. Writing to someone is the only way to wait for him without hurting oneself.

Alessandro Baricco

#57. I have blind trust in people. Even if that ends up hurting me, I won't change. I will go on trusting people because that's the only way I know to love someone.

Bipasha Basu

#58. My feeling is this whole country is founded on the principle of 'if you are not hurting anyone, and you're not fucking with someone else's shit, and you are paying your taxes, you should be able to just do what you want to do.' It's the freedom and the independence.

Adam Carolla

#59. The next time you wish you could find the right words to say to someone who is hurting, just remember that dogs are a man's best friend without ever speaking a word to them. Simply be present and have sympathy.

Ashly Lorenzana

#60. My comedy comes from pain. I can't stand to see someone hurting.

Bernie Mac

#61. It was extremely difficult to suppress my emotions, because my character in' A Girl at My Door' goes through so many infuriating situations. It was a lonely process having to portray someone that acts tough but is deeply hurting inside and is unable to express that.

Bae Doona

#62. If you don't have the gift of a loving supportive family, be that gift for someone else. It doesn't have to be a relative, just someone you know who is alone or hurting over the holiday.

Joel Osteen

#63. How ignorant can you be to hurt another person? You cannot hurt someone else without hurting yourself first.

Debasish Mridha

#64. I've thrown enough punches in my life to know when someone is hurting.

Ally Carter

#65. Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

Shah Rukh Khan

#66. If you make someone suffer today, without any doubt, you will be punished by your conscience. Don't hurt anyone in anyway or form.

Debasish Mridha

#67. Your job isn't to judge. - Your job isn't to figure out if someone deserves something or decide who is right or wrong. - Your job is to lift the fallen, restore the broken, and heal the hurting.

Joel Osteen

#68. Changing yourself into who you think someone else wants is hurting yourself. It's a rejection of who you are, and that's toxic. You're committing emotional suicide." I

Jennifer Coburn

#69. If someone is capable of Hurting you, you must be Capable of not getting hurt.

Mohith Agadi

#70. I wish I'd realized that when someone else's hurting, that hurt's real - whether I understand it or not.

Leah Atwood

#71. In real life, we do things out of character, constantly. A couple of days ago, my shoes were hurting, so I walked barefoot through New York. Someone who has known me my whole life would think that was so out of character. But I did it because of the circumstances.

Allison Williams

#72. I don't pretend to love someone who hurts me.
I do something that prevent us hurting each other.

Toba Beta

#73. I think I did it because I was hurting. I think I wanted to mark that hurt in the outside. I think I wanted to be someone else. But I didn't know who yet.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#74. I will do almost anything for the sake of a joke or for the sake of someone's real belief in something to help tell a story. I will not do something shocking for the sake of being nasty. If it's not hurting anyone's feelings, I'm in on the joke.

Selma Blair

#75. 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

#76. My point is, when someone is hurting you, they can call it whatever the hell they want. They can even call it love. But words lie, actions don't.

Lisa Kleypas

#77. I was never bitter because I believed in the man upstairs. I continue to do my best. I let someone else be bitter. If I was bitter, I was only hurting me. I prefer to remember Bill Veeck and and Jim Hegan and Joe Gordon, the good guys. There is no point in talking about the others.

Larry Doby

#78. I thought you needed to be tougher. But I've been thinking that protecting somebody by hurting them before someone else gets the chance isn't the kind of protecting that anybody wants.

Holly Black

#79. 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

#80. Being hurt by someone you really cared about, it makes me want to make them regret ever hurting my heart. Best way of doing that? Success. Get ready for it.

Jessica Sanchez

#81. Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear, no ugliness.

Melissa Marr

#82. I wanted to write something in a voice that was unique to who I was. And I wanted something that was accessible to the person who works at Dunkin Donuts or who drives a bus, someone who comes home with their feet hurting like my father, someone who's busy and has too many children, like my mother.

Sandra Cisneros

#83. Running twenty-six miles is no fun.
I think it was possibly an American who came up with the adage 'if it ain't hurting, it ain't working'. It would be nice to think that shortly after he uttered those words someone smacked him in the mouth by way of demonstrating how well it was working for him.

Tony Hawks

#84. Murder is always wrong, doesn't matter who does the killin'. Hurtin' someone else is always wrong. Everyone's got their burdens. The way the world is, we need faith and hope and joyful praise more than ever to get through.

Martina Boone

#85. Oh yeah, pain. I think it's the same when we lose someone we love. It never stops hurting. But maybe it shouldn't. That pain, after all, is a souvenir of love.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#86. Then tell me Mark, how can I do it? How do I watch her life fade everyday but not hurt? How do I continue to breath, when I know she takes one less breath everyday? Why Mark, Why is this happening to someone so precious?

D. Love

#87. I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.

Lynne Stewart

#88. I'd never felt so helpless - so hopeless - in my life as I did there. To be completely under someone's power, with no one to turn to for help, to make someone feel like they're at fault for you hurting them ... I realized that was exactly what I'd done to Carly. That hangs over me every day.

Richelle Mead

#89. If someone chooses not to forgive others, they are actually hurting themselves. The only way to free yourself from that is to forgive others so you can be free from your past.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#90. You can't force someone to care ... You can only come to the realization that if you stay, they'll keep hurting you. I wish you the wisdom and courage to walk away and begin the healing process.

Steve Maraboli

#91. The brown-eyes angel was weeping over the demon. The angel wept because she was grieved at the mere thought of someone hurting him

Sylvain Reynard

#92. If you're hurting, don't be afraid to seek the help you need! Speak to someone - it may just change your life.

Demi Lovato

#93. You can't stop loving someone if you had already fallen; all you can do is hurting yourself

M.F. Moonzajer

#94. Be careful how close you get to someone ... It just ends up hurting more than not having no one to love to begin with.

Andrew Galasetti

#95. I never like to see someone hurting, but I admit whenever I heard someone play the depression card, I'd roll my eyes and go about my business.

J.A. Redmerski