Top 64 Words Can Break You Quotes
#1. There is something incredibly beautiful about a woman, who knows herself, she can't break, she just falls but in every fall she rises, past who she was before.
Nikki Rowe
#2. Another hot summer night as I sit here and play at being a writer again. and the worst thing of course is that the words will never truly break through for any of us. some nights I have taken the sheet out of the typer and held it over the cigarette lighter, flicked it and waited for the result.
Charles Bukowski
#3. You shouldn't throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch yo mouth: cause I'll break yo face.
50 Cent
#4. Hard words will break no bones:
But more than bones are broken
By the inescapable stones
Of fond words left unspoken.
Jan Struther
#5. Whoever had come up with the chant "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" had been an idiot.
Nevada Barr
#6. Yeah, Montague tried to do us during break," said George.
"What do you mean, 'tried'?" said Ron quickly.
"He never managed to get all the words out," said Fred, "due to the fact that we forced him headfirst into that Vanishing Cabinet on the first floor.
J.K. Rowling
#7. Sticks and stones and fists CAN break your bones, but it's the words that break your heart.
Mia Sheridan
#8. Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too.
Chuck Palahniuk
#9. His words swirled around my head, and I heard the doctor at the hospital in Phoenix, last spring, as he showed me the X-rays. You can see it's a clean break, his finger traced along the picture of my severed bone. That's good. It will heal more easily, more quickly.
Stephenie Meyer
#10. Words are not for hurting. They can either make or break a person ... so use them carefully.
Timothy Pina
#11. Oh, you know I'm only human;
I bend and fall and break
You cut me and I bleed
I'm a mess for you to make
So forget the words and give me deeds
My heart was yours to take.
Emery Lord
#12. A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick
a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.
Neil Gaiman
#13. And you also think we have time to nap?" "Just because all Hell's trying to break loose doesn't mean you shouldn't take care of yourself." "Words to live by," Jack muttered. "Well, let's hope.
Gini Koch
#14. He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he'd come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can't be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay.
Charlotte Eriksson
#15. Rachel snatched her hand back. Sorry, I forgot the rules. Everything's a joke until it's not, and words don't mean anything until you want them to.
Kit Rocha
#16. As she spoke, Isabel found herself thinking of the power of words. A single word, a phrase, a sentence or two could have such extraordinary power; could end a world, break a heart or, as in this case, consign another to moral purdah.
Alexander McCall Smith
#17. Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.
T. S. Eliot
#20. Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.
Chuck Palahniuk
#21. Your words and deeds are seeds, scattered in the wind ... the seeds are light or darkness ... they'll break apart or mend ... Sow light instead of gloom. Sow faith instead of doubt. Sow truth and love, and hope, and peace. Sow light and darkness rout.
Colleen Luntzel
#22. There's nothing on Earth like really nailing the last line of a big book. You have 200 pages to tickle their fancy, and seven words to break their heart.
Alex De Campi
#23. Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They break hearts. They heal them. If you have the right words, there's nothin on earth you can't do."
- Crave the Moon
Lori Handeland
#24. Words can split logs and start fires and break stones, but they can also hug you and warm you and fight the wars you don't have the strength to fight.
David Estes
#25. If you can train yourself to be actionable instead of reactionary, you will break out of the negative space that is typically furnished with fear, uncertainty and inaction, and move into that peaceful zone of determination, power, decisiveness and growth. Life will become less complicated.
Carlos Wallace
#26. Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child's entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them?
Dan Pearce
#27. People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten.
Demi Lovato
#28. I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at at job. It's the same with writing. Take a break and let the words come to you. It rarely comes if you force it and if it does, you'll probably regret what you wrote down on paper.
Lillian R. Melendez
#29. Sticks & stones may break your bones & hurtful words can destroy more than you know!
Timothy Pina
#30. Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.
Jodi Picoult
#31. Can you come over to Amberwood? I need you to help me break curfew and escape my dorm."
There were a few moments of silence. "Sage, I've been waiting two months to hear you say those words. You want me to bring a ladder?
Richelle Mead
#32. Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you ... But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#33. I'll tell you this, though. It's not true, that saying about sticks and stones; it's words that break your bones.
Merle Miller
#34. People that want to control words will never ever try to break up, like, a fight on a subway. They will never confront an aggressive person on the bus. They prefer their fights to be easy.
Greg Gutfeld
#35. Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.
William Shakespeare
#36. If words could break souls, my words just broke his in two.
Colleen Hoover
#37. Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.
Taylor Swift
#38. *on saying I Love You* When you hear those words, it's like being picked out from the crowd.
Philip Siegel
#39. Ghost Dog: In the words of the ancients, one should make his decision within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break through to the other side.
Jim Jarmusch
#41. Would that my hands were meant to build. I would know what to say. What to do. Maybe in another life I would have been that man. In this one, my words, like my hands, are clumsy. All they can do is cut. All they can do is break.
Pierce Brown
#42. Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours.
Eric Idle
#43. Well. Who wouldn't break? I broke. You broke.'
'And we both emerged stronger.'
'We both emerged', I modified his words.
Robin Hobb
#44. When you think about it, words can break your heart, or they can change your day.
Anna Deavere Smith
#45. Try not to kill me with your love,
try not to break a glass wall
seeing everything,
but going unheard,
the words feel unspoken.
Crystals gleaming at our feet,
innocently joined by red fists
and a kiss.
Megan Hutchinson
#46. Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.
Marlene Dietrich
#47. That's the first time you even said those words. You can't say you love me and then break my heart. So say what you really need to say. Say it and I'm gone.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#48. While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of right or left can produce toxic atmospheres in which lunacy thrives.
Phillip Adams
#49. I verily believe that the kingdom of God advances more on spoken words than it does on essays written and read; on words, that is, in which the present feeling and thought of the teaching mind break into natural and forceful expression.
Richard Salter Storrs
#50. I can fake a smile. I can force a laugh. I can dance and play the part of that's what you ask. Give you all I am. But I am only human. I bleed when I fall down. I'm only human I crash and I break down. Your words in my head. Knives in my heart. You build me up and then I fall apart.
Christina Perri
#51. A man may break a word with you, sir, and words are but wind;
Ay, and break it in your face, so he break it not behind.
William Shakespeare
#52. The power of words to deceive is a danger far exceeding any we might encounter from physical weapons. Sticks and stones can break bones! But words can lead worlds into ruin!
Steve Bivans
#53. But the human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will tun wild and cause you grief.
Robert Greene
#54. Words not kept break more than a promise.
Ron Kaufman
#55. A soft word pacifies anger, and the discordant words break the harmony of the cosmic diapason, and generate disorders ...
Samael Aun Weor
#56. KEEP THE BODY, TAKE THE MIND! In other words, break the will to resist.
Willie Lynch
#57. There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clears otherwise it will taste sour. (paraphrased)
Patrick Rothfuss
#58. Someone is always there to love you no matter what happens in life. That person is you. Take a break! You deserve it.
Steven Cuoco
#59. Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.
John Green
#60. Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son ... these aren't tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always. Without fail.
Dan Pearce
#61. To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.
Stephen Spender
#62. Words, Kaden. Only lost unsaid words that added up to good-bye.
Mary E. Pearson
#63. As children we are taught, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me!" As adults we teach those same words to our own children while simultaneously we sue one another for defamation or verbal assault. Ah, the naked leading the blind.
Bryan Oftedahl
#64. There are no words in that fleeting moment between hope and the knowledge. There is no way to express how a heart can burst and break at the same time, how the sun can cut through the darkness but will case shadows everywhere.
Marieke Nijkamp
