Hurtful Quotes - Page 6

• You're in a bad mood,' Skulduggery said. 'I understand. I do. You're saying things that you don't really mean. It's OK.' 'I'll kill you both.' 'Hurtful things said in the heat of the moment. We're not going to hold it against you, Bison. We're all friends here.' Valkyrie nodded. 'We love you Bison.' 'We do,' Skulduggery agreed. 'You're our favourite Necromancer. You're the cuddly one.' 'Shut up,' Dragonclaw said. 'Both of you just shut up.

  Derek Landy

  Love You, Mean, Bad Mood

  9 Copy quote

• I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in his patient's body, furthers those motions and other things, that he judges conducive to the welfare and recovery of it; but as to those, that he perceives likely to be hurtful, either by increasing the disease, or otherwise endangering the patient, he thinks it is his part to oppose or hinder, though nature do manifestly enough seem to endeavour the exercising or carrying on those hurtful motions.

  Robert Boyle

  Recovery, Exercise, Science

  Robert Boyle, Edward B. Davis, Michael Hunter (1996). “Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'

  Joyce Meyer

  Letting Go, Hurt, Believe

  5 Copy quote

• Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Mean, Ugly, Persons

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.73, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Nicholas Sparks

  School, Mean, Gossip

  Nicholas Sparks (2000). “A Walk to Remember”, Random House Large Print Publishing

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of rage to strike one as untrue, and because they may have been hurtful to family, friends, lovers, husbands, or wives, one wishes them unsaid.

  Frank Beddor

  Love, Husband, Wife

  Frank Beddor (2006). “The Looking Glass Wars”, Dial Books for Young Readers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all to be condemned; are they all guilty? Or are those acts simply expressions of unconsciousness, an evolutionary stage that we are now growing out of? Jesus’ words, “Forgive them for they do not know what they do,” also apply to yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Jesus, Expression, Forgiving

  5 Copy quote

• Persons of genius are, ex vi termini, more individual than any other people - less capable, consequently, of fitting themselves, without hurtful compression, into any of the small number of moulds which society provides in order to save its members the trouble of forming their character.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Small Numbers, Order

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.129, OUP Oxford

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ready?" Jaime echoed. "Yes, yes, I am ready. I am ready to drink a lot of liquids and lie on the sofa moaning faintly all day long. That is what I am ready for. I cannot engage in physical activity of any sort or my head will fall right off. Is that what you want Nick? Because if so, I find that hurtful.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Lying, Fall, Long

  4 Copy quote

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

  Stephen King

  Heart, Mind, Useless

  Stephen King, Darrel Anderson (2005). “The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah”, Scribner Book Company

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Action, Vicious, Forbidden

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.137, Applewood Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.

  Alain de Botton

  Glasses, Understanding, Wipe

  Alain De Botton (1997). “How Proust Can Change Your Life: Not a Novel”, Pantheon

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The next day, when I was sober, I thought again about the three of us, and about time's many paradoxes. For instance: that when we are young and sensitive, we are also at our most hurtful; whereas when the blood begins to slow, when we feel less sharply, when we are more armoured and have learnt how to bear hurt, we tread more carefully.

  Julian Barnes

  Hurt, Blood, Next Day

  4 Copy quote

• Sometimes the most hurtful thing is the silence of friends, not the words of enemies

  Lisa Vanderpump

  Friendship, Silence, Enemy

  9 Copy quote

• I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'

  Mae Whitman

  School, People, My Best Friend

  "Mae Whitman Interview PARENTHOOD and SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 12, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather, it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Divorce, Past, Feelings

  "Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual Optimism". Book by Joan Z. Borysenko, 1993.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• Here was a period where I was particularly attacked, and in untrue ways, some people online said some things that were not true about me - but it was very hurtful. And there was like, a period of time that it was very panicky, I was very upset. And my son at the time was, I guess seven, eight months old, and I would wake up early with him and let my wife sleep.

  David Plotz

  Sleep, Son, Up Early

  Source: www.slate.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• While it has been hurtful to my family and me to read constantly in the media that I was under investigation, I am pleased that as expected my spending has been found to be in order.

  Peter Slipper

  Media, Order, My Family

  4 Copy quote

• A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with the worst chapter in American history, segregation, deaths of children in church bombings, George Wallace. That, to me, was so hurtful.

  John McCain

  Children, Hero, Men

  8 Copy quote

• Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.

  Max Muller

  Deeds, Easy, Difficult

  F. Max Muller (2000). “Wisdom of the Buddha: The Unabridged Dhammapada”, p.20, Courier Corporation

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Lynn Caine

  Mean, Long, Widows

  Lynn Caine (1974). “Widow”

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The confined air of a metropolis is hurtful to the minds and bodies of those who have never lived out of it. It is impure, stagnant--without breathing-space to allow a larger view of ourselves or others--and gives birth to a puny, sickly, unwholesome, and degenerate race of beings.

  William Hazlitt

  Breathing, Cities, Space

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.524

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People like to lay their whole life, and all of their own secrets out in front of the world. They make money off of it, and find satisfaction that way. I personally don't believe in that. I think it can be hurtful to yourself and those around you.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  John Schuerholz

  Brave, Uniforms, Knows

  4 Copy quote

• It's a hurtful place, the world, in and of itself. We don't need to add to it. And we're in a place now where we all need one another, and it's going to get rougher.

  Prince

  Add, Needs, World

  "Tribute to Prince, Part 2". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. April 25, 2016.

  666 Copy quote

  Show source