Hurtful Quotes

The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful. — Mike Norton

The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it's what comes from our friends. — Gloria Steinem

Keep writing. Keep doing it and doing it. Even in the moments when it's so hurtful to think about writing. — Heather Armstrong

The most harmful lies and the most hurtful, always contain a grain of truth," he said. "But nevertheless, lies they do remain. — Robin Jarvis

A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad. — John Milton

Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person. — Kathryn Stockett

For some reason if we hear 100 praises and one criticism, we focus on that one hurtful thing. — Carmen Electra

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. — Clarence Day

Hurt people can become hurtful, — Jewel

If you scorn the fellowship of the brethren, you reject the call of Jesus Christ, and thus your solitude can only be hurtful to you. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

How hurtful it can be to deny one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others. — June Ahern

We may need to ready ourselves to repel boarders." "With what? One stiletto and hurtful insinuations about their mothers? — Scott Lynch

Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful. — Paula Abdul

When something bad is written about me, I find it hurtful. So I choose not to look at it. — Patsy Kensit

Logan looked up at the big guy. "Do you ever hear yourself?" Blake beamed. "I'm my biggest fan." "Your only fan," Ayden said. "Hurtful, dude. — A&E Kirk

Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there. — Joel Osteen

I have never had the desire, need, nor the inclination to ever be the one to make the one I love cry."


~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods

Feedback is helpful and constructive; criticism is hurtful and damaging. — Frank Sonnenberg

He was looking for the most hurtful way to tell the truth, but of course I already knew the truth. — John Green

263A kind word and forgiveness is better than a charitable deed followed by hurtful [words]: — Muhammad A.S. Abdel Haleem

Calling anyone hurtful names is ... bullying.
Hating and abusing someone ... is bullying.
All Bullying is harmful & wrong! — Timothy Pina

You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true. — Dan Chaon

I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. — Russell Simmons

It's loneliness that makes us terrible and hurtful human beings. — Nina Berkhout

Love is never hurtful; It's never about forgetting who you are, it's about exploring yourself more. — Ankita Singhal

She knew that oftentimes hurtful people were hurting people, so she determined to pray for them all the more. — J.E.B. Spredemann

There's a difference between people who do hurtful things because they're evil and people who do bad things because of their circumstances. — Bree Despain

A true friend will never lead you to do something hurtful towards yourself or others but will help out with good things towards you — Timothy Pina

It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults. — Mitch Albom

She simply lived with his face in her heart all the time, a kind of sweet, hurtful ache ... — Stephen King

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful. — Benjamin Franklin

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. — Seneca.

I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful. — Lamar Odom

The useful is the noble and the hurtful is the base — Plato

Not all truths hurt. And not all that is hurtful is truthful. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: You don't outrun pain. — Jewel

It is extremely hurtful when women tell me I don't understand or know how they feel. — Kim Lyons

Now she understood how you can copyedit your own life in order to delete the hurtful truth. — Elaine Hussey

Incessant smiling is one of the deadly tools used by someone whose intent is to make others cry. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I am accountable for every lie that I tell, but I am also accountable for the effects of every harsh truth I deliver. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning. — Sylvia Plath

Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies — Lisa Vanderpump

Sticks & stones may break your bones & hurtful words can destroy more than you know! — Timothy Pina

I'd been hurt, yes - but I'd never meant to become hurtful. I didn't want to close down anyone but myself. — David Levithan

When a man plays with your heart it is for one of two reasons: He knows he can or he is undecided. — Shannon L. Alder

We don't take a macro view ... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful. — Robert Pozen

Then we fucked so that we could pretend that nothing hurtful had just happened. — Junot Diaz

Lots of hurtful secrets are better off kept. The problem is that people find it so hard to keep them. — Liane Moriarty

Real secrets mean more than hiding that card game from you daddy. Real secrets can be hurtful. Make people do bad things. — Augusta Scattergood

Respond with love and kindness even to hurtful treatment. — Debasish Mridha

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage. — Aristotle.

Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them. — Plutarch

Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long. — Lynn Caine

It's hurtful to know that Tommy Glavine won't be in a Braves uniform anymore. — John Schuerholz

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden,
but it is forbidden because it is hurtful. — Benjamin Franklin

Every time you overhear something hurtful, I want you to do something kind for someone else. — Suze Orman

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature — Michel De Montaigne

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith. — Mahatma Gandhi

Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart. — Stephen King

If someone says or does something hurtful, call upon heaven for protection and healing. — Doreen Virtue

I think what scares people about not being normal is being ostracized for not being like other people. And that's hurtful when that happens. — Erin Davie

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

Life is really weird, I thought. It's not just bad people who spread misery - even pretty things can be hurtful. So hard to understand — Nujood Ali

Treat not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. — Gautama Buddha

You can set a boundary with your words when you are honest and when you establish a consequence for another's hurtful actions. — Henry Cloud

I regret it when I suppress my feelings too long and they burst forth in ways that are distorted or attacking or hurtful. — Carl R. Rogers

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. — Simone Weil

Spiritual enlightenment is the ultimate goal for all of humanity, not just a chosen few. Be helpful, not hurtful — L.J. Vanier

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful. — Barbara Park

One day you're gonna ask that to the wrong girl who is really struggling and it's gonna be hurtful to them. And I hate it. — Chrissy Teigen

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly. — Benjamin Franklin

To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful. — Samuel Johnson

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean. — Nicholas Sparks

I practise selective deafness to hurtful remarks. — Scott Lynch

...that society with its hurtful views on race and class distinction would make it difficult for us to succeed. — Curtis W. Jackson

To now is to love, to see is a joy, but to lose is hurtful. — Rubye Armorer

A kind word and forgiveness is better than a charitable deed followed by hurtful words: God is self-sufficient and forbearing. — Anonymous

Study the hurtful patterns of your life.
Then don't repeat them. — Yasmin Mogahed