Silence Can Hurt Quotes

#1. Silence can hurt worse than mean words.

Shelley Coriell

#2. Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

Frances Fox Piven

#3. If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

John Fowles

#4. In the silence of her bedroom, she swore an oath to the moonlight that if Sam were hurt, no force in the world would hold her back from slaughtering everyone responsible.

Sarah J. Maas

#5. Make nature your best teacher. With great love, learn from her the lessons of life.

Debasish Mridha

#6. But why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done to our conscience?

Thomas A Kempis

#7. The truth hurts, but silence kills.

Mark Twain

#8. I have learned that trying again is important and decisivness is good. I have learned that silence hurts. I have learned about starting over and releasing pride.

Sabrina Ward Harrison

#9. The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.

D.H. Lawrence

#10. You will find out that in the measure you have allowed yourself to look back you have missed that which God has for you.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#11. I started skating when I was six years old.

Nancy Kerrigan

#12. Maybe innocence makes its way easiest through the elemental chaos of this world ...

Franz Kafka

#13. When people who remember her better than me talk of her, she is always described as headstrong and irresponsible, which, if you think about it, are just different words for untameable. The wind is untameable, and so are rivers, and there is something poetic in that.

Claire Wong

#14. At times, love is silent because of too much hurt or too much care. At all times,
love is the strongest voice you can always rely on.

Soar

#15. There had been a quarrel, she had been hurt, had wept. Now it was over; now she sat still and waited. Life would go on. As with children. As with animals. If only you did not talk, did not make simple things complicated, did not turn your soul inside out.

Hermann Hesse

#16. Maybe they hurt so much that the only way they can say it, is to say nothing

Matthew Dicks

#17. Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need, Or sin by silence when I should defend ... "The world is better that I lived to-day."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#18. Institutions that channel social knowledge from below and address human needs at a personal level are more likely to adapt to problems and circumstances and to find solutions. That

Yuval Levin

#19. You can't lose your concentration at all. And there are times when you're on the stage, and you've got silence, which is wonderful, but you have to have the confidence to make you realize it's fine. You can't suddenly wobble and think, 'They're not interested.'

John Hurt

#20. What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.

Elie Wiesel

#21. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

C.S. Lewis

#22. The only way you will ever awaken is through silence, not through analyzation of facts. Not by sorting out good and bad, but through simple silence, letting go. Letting go of all thoughts, all the hurts, all the dogmas and concepts. Letting go of these things daily.

Robert Adams

#23. No one's quite like you, boy, and thank God for that. You wouldn't have stopped until you'd taken everything that was bolted down." "I brought it all back.

Kit Rocha

#24. Did he touch you? Hurt you?" Jeb whispers in the silence.
"No. He was a gentleman."
Jeb frowns. "You mean a gentleroach .

A.G. Howard

#25. I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

C.S. Lewis

#26. Which hurts the most, saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing and wishing you had?

Javan

#27. Unattended hurt, anger, and bitterness can destroy even the best marriage. Lean honestly into every hard place, each tender spot, because truthfulness hurts for a minute but silence is the kill shot.

Jen Hatmaker

#28. Words are alive. Cut them and they bleed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#29. Kate Winslet is incredible. She's so lovely and so flexible, and she's got three kids, and she's flying internationally to work. It's amazing to see strong women doing what they want to do and doing it well.

Sarah Snook

#30. I ache to hear her tell me she loves me, but forcing her to put words to how she feels pushes her further into the silence she seems comfortable calling home now. I tell myself to be patient and understanding, but inside there's a longing only those words will fill, and it hurts to ignore it.

C.J. Redwine

#31. When a politician says the debate is over, you can be sure of two things; the debate is raging; and he's losing it.

George Will

#32. I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

J. Cole

#33. Finn crossed his arms and glared at Volusian. It was kind of a bold move, considering Finn looked like a cartoon character and Volusian looked like he ate the souls of small children. For all I knew, he probably did.

Richelle Mead