--- title: "Meaning & Key Takeaway of: We protect of feelings so much that we…" description: "\"We protect of feelings so much that we willing to hurt someone else's feeling before they hurt us. What happened to accepting the truth?\" — Anonymous" image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/988/anonymous-1_truth_we-protect-of-feelings-so-much-that-we-w_1476795.jpg" --- # We protect of feelings so much that we willing to hurt… ![“We protect of feelings so much that we willing to hurt someone else's feeling before they hurt us. What happened to accepting the truth?” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/988/anonymous-1_truth_we-protect-of-feelings-so-much-that-we-w_1476795.jpg) [Download](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/988/anonymous-1_truth_we-protect-of-feelings-so-much-that-we-w_1476795.jpg) [Open image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/988/anonymous-1_truth_we-protect-of-feelings-so-much-that-we-w_1476795.jpg) > “We protect of feelings so much that we willing to hurt someone else's feeling before they hurt us. What happened to accepting the truth?” [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) ## About This Quote This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation. People protect their own feelings by preemptively hurting others, avoiding truth acceptance. **In simple terms:** Protecting feelings leads to hurting others and denying truth. Key Takeaway Recognize and accept truth before reacting. Themes self‑protection honesty relationships Mood reflective critical Type advice philosophical When to use this quote - conflict resolution - personal growth - communication - trust building Key Concepts psychology defense mechanisms Questions to Reflect On - How does fear of truth influence your behavior? - What can you do to address feelings without hurting others? 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If you're hurt then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-trusted-you-as-a-friend-but-all-i-got-is-a-cold-shoulder-after/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [If you're afraid of getting hurt and feeling severe pain, then avoid falling in love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/if-you-re-afraid-of-getting-hurt-and-feeling-severe-pain-then-avoid/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [My best friend is very special to me, sometimes I hurt her feeling too much after then also she stand for me here and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/my-best-friend-is-very-special-to-me-sometimes-i-hurt-her-feeling-too/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Sometimes you have to be mean and hurt someone's feeling to help and save their heart. 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I know the feeling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-hardest-part-about-accepting-the-truth-you-know-you-re-worth-more/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Accepting the truth is one of the best things you can do. But also one of the hardest...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/accepting-the-truth-is-one-of-the-best-things-you-can-do-but-also-one/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Searching for the truth is easy. Accepting the truth is hard.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/searching-for-the-truth-is-easy-accepting-the-truth-is-hard/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Accepting the truth is hard at first but everything works itself out after.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/accepting-the-truth-is-hard-at-first-but-everything-works-itself-out/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) ## More by Anonymous > [And a tear rolled down her cheek, as she said goodbye; because she's walking away, and she's never looking back](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/and-a-tear-rolled-down-her-cheek-as-she-said-goodbye-because-she-s/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Life is full of change. That's how we learn and grow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/life-is-full-of-change-that-s-how-we-learn-and-grow/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/you-ll-seldom-experience-regret-for-anything-that-you-ve-done-it-is/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/scrabble-the-game-is-available-in-braille-that-s-a-nice-fact-this/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Everyone needs someone to love, and I choose you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/everyone-needs-someone-to-love-and-i-choose-you/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write,    To thank the God of nature, who conveyed    My soul to me, and with such care…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/this-tale-of-my-sore-troubled-life-i-write-to-thank-the-god-of-nature/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/put-on-my-j-s-and-dance-the-whole-night-away-im-naughty-by-nature/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Me.. I have been through a lot, but I still manage to have a smile on my face. Im not worried about the past…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/me-i-have-been-through-a-lot-but-i-still-manage-to-have-a-smile-on-my/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Distance is a test of love. many will fail for those who can't withstand it, but for those who can, theres only one answer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/distance-is-a-test-of-love-many-will-fail-for-those-who-can-t/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Im sorry I ever tried...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/im-sorry-i-ever-tried/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Being betrayed by the one you love is the worst feeling in the world...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/being-betrayed-by-the-one-you-love-is-the-worst-feeling-in-the-world/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Let children support their parents or be imprisoned.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/let-children-support-their-parents-or-be-imprisoned/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [The only person I've ever purposely caused pain here is myself...By simply sharing, caring too much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-only-person-i-ve-ever-purposely-caused-pain-here-is-myself-by/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [“Start a business, not a startup”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/start-a-business-not-a-startup/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-truth-is-of-course-that-the-curtness-of-the-ten-commandments-is/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Explore all 162,899 Anonymous quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) ## More Hurt feeling quotes > [I trusted you as a friend but all I got is a cold shoulder after being honest with my decision. If you're hurt then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-trusted-you-as-a-friend-but-all-i-got-is-a-cold-shoulder-after/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Don't make someone feeling as your toy, you'll regret for it, because its not easy to forgive someone who hurt their feeling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/don-t-make-someone-feeling-as-your-toy-you-ll-regret-for-it-because/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [“Maybe I'm a masochist, but watching them together would hurt, sting with jealousy and betrayal. Hurt would be something, at least, some feeling to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jackson-pearce/maybe-i-m-a-masochist-but-watching-them-together-would-hurt-sting/) [Jackson Pearce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jackson-pearce/) > [I'm immune to getting hurt, to feeling pain, to being treated like I was Never anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/desiree-marquez/i-m-immune-to-getting-hurt-to-feeling-pain-to-being-treated-like-i/) [Desiree Marquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/desiree-marquez/) > [Think before you speak, your words could hurt someone's feeling more than you intended it to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/justin-bieber/think-before-you-speak-your-words-could-hurt-someone-s-feeling-more/) [Justin Bieber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/justin-bieber/) > [Life's unfair. Sometimes we apologize when we know we're right, just because we don't wanna hurt their feeling.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernajoy-vaal/life-s-unfair-sometimes-we-apologize-when-we-know-we-re-right-just/) [Bernajoy Vaal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernajoy-vaal/) > [Sometimes you have to be mean and hurt someone's feeling to help and save their heart. Because the truth hurts, but lies kill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/sometimes-you-have-to-be-mean-and-hurt-someone-s-feeling-to-help-and/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) > [Sometimes you text a person with your feeling hyped and you get a blunt reply in one word](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bakare/sometimes-you-text-a-person-with-your-feeling-hyped-and-you-get-a/) [Bakare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bakare/) > [Hurt - that feeling when you get different answers from what you have expected.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexis-cabilangan/hurt-that-feeling-when-you-get-different-answers-from-what-you-have/) [Alexis Cabilangan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexis-cabilangan/) > [If you ever hurt others feeling.PLEASE eat fish.It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rezahanapi/if-you-ever-hurt-others-feeling-please-eat-fish-it-s-okay-to-eat-fish/) [Rezahanapi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rezahanapi/) > [How can I forgive you? when you don't have nothing to do is to hurt my feeling's. how can I love you ,when you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bloodyheart/how-can-i-forgive-you-when-you-don-t-have-nothing-to-do-is-to-hurt-my/) [Bloodyheart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bloodyheart/) > [And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patty-hearst/and-for-any-victim-of-a-violent-crime-when-you-actually-get-to-go-in/) [Patty Hearst](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patty-hearst/) > [Do not say something or decide something when you are mad because it may be wrong that you can hurt the feeling of others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-alapan/do-not-say-something-or-decide-something-when-you-are-mad-because-it/) [Mitch Alapan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-alapan/) > [Did you ever notice that there's a certain line in every song sticks out because it reminds you of a person that you just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernajoy-vaal/did-you-ever-notice-that-there-s-a-certain-line-in-every-song-sticks/) [Bernajoy Vaal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernajoy-vaal/) > [My best friend is very special to me, sometimes I hurt her feeling too much after then also she stand for me here and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/my-best-friend-is-very-special-to-me-sometimes-i-hurt-her-feeling-too/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Browse all 23 Hurt feeling quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hurt-feeling/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We protect of feelings so much that we willing to hurt someone else's feeling before they hurt us. 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