Best Hurtful Sayings
197 Hurtful quotes by 162 unique authors
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Imagine you are walking in the woods and you see a small dog sitting by a tree. As you approach it, it suddenly lunges at…
— Tara Brach
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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…
— Robert Boyle
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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…
— David Plotz
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A man I admire and respect - Congressman John Lewis, an American hero, made allegations that Sarah Palin and I were somehow associated with the…
— John McCain
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Bad deeds, and deeds hurtful to ourselves, are easy to do; what is beneficial and good, that is very difficult to do.
— Max Muller
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Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long.
— Lynn Caine
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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,…
— William Hazlitt
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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,…
— Dolph Lundgren
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I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are…
— Gunter Grass
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A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
— Clarence Day
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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…
— Junot Diaz
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It's tough because a lot of my friends in normal life, a lot of my friends in the entertainment business, and a lot of my…
— Hulk Hogan
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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…
— Katherine Jenkins
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I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'm a good piano player, I can sing well, I write…
— Elton John
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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…
— Joyce Meyer
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The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love,…
— George Saunders
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Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over…
— George Washington
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A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
— Simone Weil
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Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
— Sylvia Plath
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Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most…
— Ivan Turgenev
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Calling it a simple schoolgirl crush was like saying a Rolls-Royce was a vehicle with four wheels, something like a hay-wagon. She did not giggle…
— Stephen King
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And now here he was in my kitchen. Smelling like apple pies and looking at me with a direct seriousness that made him even cuter.…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.
— Kathryn Stockett
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Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT mean.
— Nicholas Sparks
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