Words Can Hurt Quotes

• Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.

  C. S. Lewis

  Hurt, Heart, Silence

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• Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

  Solomon

  Giving, Poison, Fruit

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• A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Recovery

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.11, Nayika Publishing

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• Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

  Yehuda Berg

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Hurt

  FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Sep 15, 2010

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• 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

  Hurt, Hate, Names

  "Demi Lovato drops tour for 'emotional and physical' treatment" By Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. November 4, 2010.

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• By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

  Winston Churchill

  Kindness, Inspiration, Generosity

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• Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hurt, May, Stones

  "Lullaby". Chapter 14. Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

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• Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Hurt, Words Hurt, Smallest

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• Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Hurt, Thinking, People

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• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but chains and whips excite me.

  Rihanna

  Bullying, Dry Bones, Useless Life

  Song: S&M, Album: Loud

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• Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.

  Trevor Noah

  People, Can Do

  Twitter post from Feb 13, 2015

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• Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Hurt, Fear, Ideas

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• They have a word in Finnish called sisu, which basically means guts. It’s the strongest word in the Finnish language. You tell a Finn he doesn’t have sisu, that’s like spitting in his face.

  Arthur Lydiard

  Mean, Track And Field, Faces

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• 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

  Hurt, Cutting, Dwarves

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.165, Bantam

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