Hurting Others Quotes

“Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn't change the heart of others-- it only changes yours.”
― Shannon Alder, 300 Questions to Ask Your Parents Before It's Too Late

“The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get paranoid about it, compete with it, complain about it, immortalize it, cry over it, kick it, defame it, stalk it, gossip about it, pray over it, put it down or dissect its motives it continues to rot in your brain. It is dead. It is over. It is gone. It is done. It is time to bury it because it is smelling up your life and no one wants to be near your rotted corpse of memories and decaying attitude. Be the funeral director of your life and bury that thing!”
― Shannon L. Alder

“If you kick a lion when it is down, God help you when it gets up.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“When someone is hurt and
we hear ourselves saying
"I don't understand, why"
PAUSE
At the pause, ask "What am I missing here ?"
At the pause, stop judging, stop reacting,
get curious and believe their hurt state
At the pause, tap into their heart and mind.
Now see how this pause transforms the conversation.”
― Wordions

“How ignorant can you be to hurt another person? You cannot hurt someone else without hurting yourself first.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Learn the truth...never assume.
Understand the plight...never judge.
Put yourself in someone's shoes...never hurt.
Think before you act, reason before you react.”
― Kemi Sogunle, Beyond the Pain by Kemi Sogunle

“If someone hurts you, he is hurting himself. He may not be able to escape that hurt in his lifetime.”
― Debasish Mridha

“The thought caused me a good deal of grief. What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for - and to do it so unconsciously.”
― Haruki Murakami

“Harsh words can cause more wounds than sticks and stones.”
― Dada J.P. Vaswani

“Intentions aside, we’re all capable of hurting people.”
― Melanie A. Smith, Bad Boys Don't Make Good Boyfriends

“If you make someone suffer today, without any doubt, you will be punished by your conscience. Don’t hurt anyone in anyway or form.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Don't get so flattered. The only reason I follow you so closely is to never do what you are doing and then become who you are.”
― EverSkeptic

“It hurt to kill a dream, like tearing petals off a rose in full bloom.”
― Lauren Willig, The English Wife

“Everybody is aware of physical and emotional pain, but that doesn't stop some people from inflicting it on others.”
― Shon Mehta

“It is the most distressing thing, Eliza, to issue pain to someone, even when you know it is for the best.”
― Sarah Penner, The Lost Apothecary

“Never think of hurting anyone else, if you do, you are already hurting yourself.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Have men and women always got to hurt each other this way?' cried Ralph.
'Yes. Anybody that ain't content with being a peddler is going to hurt himself and everybody else, I guess,' said Joe.”
― Sinclair Lewis, Mantrap

“No, I can see that you’re right. I guess it’s like if
someone hurts you and you hit back at them even harder without trying to figure out what happened in the first place, then you just set up this endless cycle of hurt.” Decker had seemed to be talking to the table but at this point she gave a quick glance at the captain. “And nobody wins that.”
― Felicia Watson, We Have Met the Enemy

“If love is your only option, then how can you hurt others?”
― Debasish Mridha

“ابشع سجن يعيش بعض الناس فيه، هو الخوف بما يفكر فيه الاخرين...”
― Husam Wafaei, Honourable Defection

“Hurtful words are deep cuts in the heart. They may heal over time, but the scars never completely disappear.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad

“...envy
is a dance, too; the need to hurt
binds you to your partner.

[from 'Tango']”
― Louise Glück, The First Four Books of Poems

“No-one saw her pinch the girl’s arm
Making her wince in pain and cry out
More than once, an agonising clout”
― Soulla Christodoulou, Sunshine after Rain: A Collection of Poetry

“He’s hurting, Luan, and hurting those around him also. Please don’t let your bitterness increase towards him,’ said Jude, resting a hand on his shoulder. ‘Let it go … Not because he deserves that, but because you’ll need to do it, to survive yourself, to not become like him. Make the choice to do it, Luan, despite your feelings. And come with me too when we get back, to meet Shpetim’s murderer, Sheref, at the prison. Lay it to rest. Let’s move on from it together.”
― Paul Alkazraji, The Migrant

“Only the one you will love will have the ability to hurt you.”
― Purvi Mehta, When Fate Conspires

“Exaggeration of hurt tends to enhance the defaulter's guilt”
― BS Murthy

“A foul-mouthed tirade destroying each other will not help.”
― Udayakumar D.S., Fearless and Free: How One Man Changed my Life ǀ Self-help story on life, love and making a fresh start

“I often hear someone say, "Other people don't like me because I tell the truth."
No, that is not why others do not like them.
Others do not like them because they say what they think and have the pretension that it is the truth.”
― Luigina Sgarro

“Den som sa att sanningen gör ont var en optimist. Sanningen är en olidligt smärtsam jävel.”
― Colleen Hoover, November 9

“He'd said it because it was a cruel thing to say. Because it would hurt, and people hate what hurts them, and if she hated him maybe she would run before she got hurt much worse. So there's no reason regret should crawl up his throat. No reason he should swallow hard and say, far too quietly, "I'm sorry."
There's no reason he should wish she'd heard him.”
― Alix E. Harrow, Starling House