Top 249 Hurtful Quotes & Sayings

People say all kinds of hurtful things, but I've learned to tune it out the best I can.

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

I will not lie to you. These false attacks are absolutely hurtful.

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

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

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

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

Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults.

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

Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.

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

I'm the poster child for cyber bullying. It's hurtful.

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

No one has it easy, and to some degree, everyone feels lonely and powerless, which may cause them to make hurtful decisions.

Artists are not cheerleaders, and we're not the heads of tourism boards. We expose and discuss what is problematic, what is contradictory, what is hurtful and what is silenced in the culture we're in.

An Internet 'relationship' doesn't have to be catastrophically harmful to be inappropriate. Hurtful is bad enough.

Every time I watch a performance, I'm disgusted with how I've skated. It's very hurtful for me.

In my past, I said and believed things that were wrong and - worse - hurtful to the LGBTQ+ community and their loved ones.

Our leaders must hold themselves to a higher standard and ensure their words and actions do not promote hate or hurtful anti-Semitic stereotypes.

At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness.

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

For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate.

I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful.

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.

I don't want to be hurtful to anyone.

Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.

Ultimately, I do my best to not subscribe to things that are unnecessarily negative, harmful, or hurtful to somebody.

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

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

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.

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

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

Stereotypical and hurtful tropes about Jews are widely accepted in the African American community.

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

Don't let something hurtful in your past hold you back from what you want to do. Be brave.

I don't feel the need to say hurtful comments true or not to someone and try to bring them down. There is no good that can come out of that, nothing positive.

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

There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.

All of their horrific allegations of abuse, threats and purported misconduct by me against Kesha are completely untrue and deeply hurtful.

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

It is hurtful to read things which are not true. I am learning to focus only on my work and not pay heed to any negativity.

I don't share photos of people grieving leaving a funeral or outside of a hospital when a loved one is sick... You can do your job and have an opinion and have it be strong, but not be hurtful or cruel.

When I was a kid, there was teasing in school. Then when I was a teenager on 'Days of Our Lives,' I certainly experienced hurtful comments from 'fans' of the show.

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

In some instances, you may care so much about the person who has hurt you, or be so unable to be angry with him (or with anyone), that you rationalize his hurtful acts by finding some basis in your own actions for his hurtful behavior; you then feel guilty rather than angry. Put in other terms, you become angry with yourself rather than with the one who hurt you.

I am ever Thine. If Thou cast me out, who shall take me in? If Thou disregard me, who shall look on me? More canst Thou remit, than I commit; more canst Thou spare, than I offend. Let not hurtful pleasures overcome me; at the least let not any perverse habit overwhelm me; From evil and unlawful desires; From vain, hurtful, impure imaginations; from the illusions of evil spirits; from pollutions of soul and of body; Good Lord, deliver me.

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

As a fan, Guardiola is the best coach in the world, but personal things that have happened to me were hurtful.

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

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

I don't like how social media allows people to be so mean and say really hurtful, negative things. It's just not cool.

How you communicate while criticising a film is important. Don't pass any hurtful remarks.

I think almost anyone is capable of doing things that are evil or hurtful or harmful.

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

There will be moments when you disagree or cross a line and say or do something offensive or hurtful to someone you truly care about.

Symbolic racism is hurtful and it is especially hurtful to Black children who get called Black Pete in school and grow up with the sense that they are inferior to white kids.

If something becomes mean-spirited and hurtful, it's not funny.

If you know something hurtful and not true, don't say it. If you know something hurtful and true, don't say it. If you know something helpful but not true, don't say it. If you know something helpful and true, find the right time to say it.

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

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