Top 70 Hurtful Quotes

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.

What’s hurtful is when you have portrayals like, you know, when you have someone like Jared Leto who accepts an award for ‘Dallas Buyers Club,’ after playing a trans woman, standing in a full beard and looking fully cis male: it is communicating to our audiences that underneath all of that, it’s still a man under that.

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

That was one of the most hurtful things, to have my mother see me in court and to have my mother see me behind bars.

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

Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle.

Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don’t entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears.

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn’t want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don’t know why. Maybe it was shame. I don’t know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years.

ISIL is saying to a disenfranchised population, ‘Come join us. Fight the good fight.’ I think we’re actually playing into it when they hear Trump’s rhetoric. And I think it’s dangerous and hurtful as a matter of national policy.

Back then I was called Dumbo because of my ears. I was called Fatty, too. It was hurtful so I became like the class clown. I became the one who was kicked around.

No matter what I do, I can’t help but feel that I’m under a microscope. Some of it is completely silly, and some of it is meant to be hurtful. For example, a website accumulated all of my music videos to point out perceived Illuminati images. I loved that one. Of course, it was all ridiculous but funny.

The most hurtful thing is not what comes from our adversaries, it’s what comes from our friends.

With bullying and all the stuff going on, words are very important. Words can be more hurtful than anything physically. I got little kids, and it’s common sense when you’re raising them that the main thing is how you talk to people, and how you treat people. Sometimes I think the world forgets that as we get older.

Maybe it’s legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven’t paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

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

If something hurtful enters your body, you create something beautiful to protect yourself from it. That’s my philosophy.

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

We cannot uphold the rule of law only when it is consistent with our beliefs. We must uphold it even when it protects behavior that we don’t like or is unattractive or is not admirable or that might even be hurtful.

Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.

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

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

If someone says ‘she’ or ‘he,’ and it’s unintentional, I can tell if it’s coming from a place of love. It’s only when someone misgenders me on purpose that it becomes hurtful.

What’s wrong is wrong, and that’s absolutely acceptable, and I understand that people get hurt by things that people say that are hurtful, and we should be able to say that when someone says something that hurts us, that it hurts us.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I don’t want to be hurtful to anyone.

People who don’t know me have opinions about me. That’s the part that’s very hurtful. Because how do you form an opinion about somebody if you’ve never met them or spent any time with them? So it’s all based upon hearsay or things that they’ve read.

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, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.

If someone calls you fat and you are fat, then it will be hurtful only if you feel you should not be fat.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

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.

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

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

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

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

Aging doesn’t scare me at all. You can handle the bumps each year. They’re traumatic when you’re younger, and they’re hurtful, and you go through some terrible times, and you feel terrible.

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it’s completely false.

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

If someone says something hurtful to you or makes you feel down on yourself, then you just gotta stay positive and keep moving forward because they might not know much about you, or they may not understand the situation.

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

Thank god magazines like ‘Heat’ weren’t around in our day. The thought of someone catching you unawares on a beach and publishing photos of your cellulite… it’s so hurtful, causes so many problems.

I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I think that it is really important for kids to know how to deal with it correctly because it can be a really dangerous situation.

All of us in the field must remain constantly vigilant and fight against all types of inappropriate and hurtful behavior and continue the essential work of creating a fair and safe work environment for all classical musicians.

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 things like, ‘I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.’ ‘Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.’ ‘They probably don’t even realize how they sound.’

To be stuck with that Kardashian label, that was so hurtful to me and to my career. I probably realized that too late – not that it would’ve affected my decisions in terms of who I dated, but it would’ve affected my decision to appear on the show.

It’s kind of hurtful people associate Republican with being racist and the last thing I want from the very people I am fighting for.

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

I know for me, personally, when something is being said about me that isn’t true, it’s extremely hurtful and frustrating.

It took me years on top of years to grow thick skin and it took me many hurtful days.

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