Hurting Feelings Quotes

17 quotes from 16 authors

When honesty collides with the fear of hurting feelings, the 17 snippets here lay bare the tension between truth‑telling and kindness. They reveal how we balance openness with care, and why sometimes a blunt word can spare a deeper wound. Readers interested in emotional intelligence or conflict resolution will recognize the same pulse.

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You say you love her but you keep on hurting her feelings.

Sheng Faltiquera

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I'd apologize for hurting your feelings, but I just don't care!

Sharee

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I've always had a tendency to push the envelope as far as it can go without hurting someone's feelings.

Martha Wainwright

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In Hollywood, they don't care about hurting anyone's feelings.

David Eigenberg

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“Was I really afraid of hurting her feelings? Or was I afraid of her?”

Bryce Loski

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When you're famous weird things will happen that end up hurting your feelings. I'll get a letter from somebody I knew a…

Fiona Apple

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Look, I'm human. Sometimes I'm struggling, sometimes I'm hurting, sometimes I have feelings, sometimes I'm heartbroken. I try to do good in…

Dominique Crenn

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I don't understand rude people. How can you say something, knowing you're hurting their feelings, and think nothing of it?

Anonymous

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“Someone had to make you,” she explained. “And everyone else seems to be terrified of hurting your feelings. I wouldn’t be your…

Sara C. Roethle

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Don't worry about hurting my feelings because I guarantee you not one bit of my self esteem is tied up in your…

Anonymous

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He was right – she was beating herself up about hurting his feelings. The girl was a classic martyr. She’d totally been…

Stephenie Meyer

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If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people…

Caitlin Rose

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“And in notes meetings, everyone was so afraid of hurting someone’s feelings that they held back. We had to learn that we…

Ed Catmull

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See, this was the thing with Qhuinn. He could be out there and he could let his edge get away from him,…

J.R. Ward

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If you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings,…

Cheryl Richardson

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We hold back our true feelings and beliefs, whether it's from a sense of being polite or fear of hurting someone's feelings.…

Nate Berkus

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Sometimes when people say that they cant stand the sight of someone, that means that they cant wait that they cant wait…

Erykah Marshall

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