Top 37 Words Don't Hurt Quotes
#1. Pictures and words don't hurt anyone, except for those who are afraid of history.
Katherine Govier
#2. Words don't hurt you. Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.
Neal Shusterman
#3. Let's be honest: ignoring is acting, and nothing more - acting as though the words, or actions of your oppresors don't hurt. you hear the words, you feel the insults, and you bear the blows. you can act deaf and impervious to pain, but the stabs and the arrows pierce you anyway.
Frank E. Peretti
#4. 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
#5. (The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.
Chris Gardner
#6. I lie in the dirt and pretend his words about my love don't hurt, but they slice me like the ice cold winds of winter. It takes all of the power I have left to lie there quietly and not remind him of the promises he has not kept.
Inger Iversen
#7. If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore. And you actually have power over those people.
Stephen Colbert
#8. I don't like remembering the way that hurt her. Hurts her. I'm sure it still does; I'm just not around to see, and I don't like dwelling on that, either. That's only normal. Missing people you still love, and not wanting to see them in pain and angry and humiliated.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#9. Because words are powerful; they can hurt and wound, and one word can lead to a thousand horrors. So don't forget to be impeccable with your words.
Kunal Nayyar
#10. All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.
Tom Hodgkinson
#11. Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.
Mary-Louise Parker
#12. Because theatre is a story-telling art form, we feel entitled to assume that the playwright got there before we got there.
Tom Stoppard
#13. Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!
Ben Stiller
#14. To know a people's character, we must see it at its homes, and look chiefly to the humbler abodes where that portion of the people dwells which makes the broad basis of the national prosperity.
Lajos Kossuth
#15. If you can love cats, you can love human beings, because you have to be able to love them without getting them at all.
Chris Kelly
#16. With her right index finger she slowly spells words on Grace's skin.
Don't let me go crazy.
The moon is pale and vast. The stars so sharp they almost hurt.
Helen Humphreys
#17. Words do hurt. They eat into my being and don't leave. They are always there just waiting to pop back up in my mind like it happened yesterday
Tina J. Richardson
#19. I can't find the words." She stared daggers at him.
"Don't hurt yourself trying.
Dana Marton
#20. I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on the page and do something, hurt someone.
Don DeLillo
#21. No, I don't have a heart of gold. It's normal - the one that gets hurt by rude words and broken promises.
Saru Singhal
#22. If you really care about Charlotte, don't be afraid to tell her. Believe me, it will hurt her a lot more not hearing the words than it will hurt you to say them.
J.S. Goldstine
#23. Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ...
John Geddes
#24. Pretentiousness isn't always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don't mean beans or hurt you in the long run. Oftentimes, the former appeals to the intellect whereas the latter appeals to the heart.
Criss Jami
#25. Two would actually do it- two magic words that could replace all the religions in the world- two wonderful words that embrace all the powers and all of the energy we need to survive with each other and with our planet and with all the world's living creatures- don't hurt.
Roger Caras
#26. Don't call me Lord Snow."
The dwarf lifted an eyebrow. "Would you rather be called the Imp? Let them see that their words can cut you and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name take it make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore.
George R R Martin
#27. We cannot condemn or judge or pass words that will hurt people. We don't know in what way God is appearing to that soul and what God is drawing that soul to; therefore, who are we to condemn anybody?
Mother Teresa
#28. I don't want the world. I want you, Alec said, and Magnus closed his eyes, as if the words almost hurt.
Cassandra Clare
#29. As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.
Dwight Yoakam
#30. Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.
Jonathan Maberry
#31. The words come out of my mouth, but they don't sound like me. I don't sound like me. Probably because I know it's all lies. But I can see that they're lies that Reeve believes. He swallows them whole. His eyes go blank. Empty. He completely shuts down.
Jenny Han
#32. Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
Garry Trudeau
#33. Don't even know why, but I got to that part, and I...God, it hit me, you know? The truth of those damn words the Skin Horse spoke. Being real could hurt. That's what...what living is all about and the opposite is unimaginable.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#34. A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who don't hurt." She pauses, considering her words. "A good zoo is how humans make amends.
Katherine Applegate
#35. Don't discount the power of your words. The thought that they might cause unnecessary hurt or discomfort should inform every conversation.
P. M. Forni
#36. Why do you stay with me?" he whispered. He wished he hadn't said it once the words were out of of his mouth, wished he could pull them back, but Laurie didn't seem fazed at all. In fact, he just smiled a crooked smile and kissed him again. "Because I don't want to dance by myself," he whispered.
Heidi Cullinan
#37. I don't tell her that my grasp on truth, on words, on people, has slipped. I was getting close, so close to normal again, and that's been snatched away. I'm not even back where I started. I'm somewhere else entirely, so far off the map I don't know where to turn next.
Daisy Whitney
