Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are more bitter than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself more than his victim.

When we have painful memories from hurting experiences, we may feel justified in holding on to the resentment. But resentment is corrosive. It doesn't affect the person we feel anger toward, it destroys the host.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.

I hurt easy, I just don't show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.

You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.

I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

Resentment always hurts you more than the person you resent.

If anything might hurt her, silence would; and I wanted to hurt her.

There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.

Anger is a poison. It eats us inside. We think when we hate someone we hurt them, but hatred is a curved blade, and the harm we do to others we also do to ourselves.

Revenge has a way of corroding you, the revenger. You know it doesn't heal you.

Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.

If you put anger in the writing, then it's like an actor crying on stage. The audience will not cry with the actor and in some way inure itself against the emotion.

If she was broken, she would slash him with her jagged edges, reckless as a drunkard with a shattered bottle.

I don't care who gets in my way... I'm just gonna come right though and riot.

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover. And then, in the midst of near despair, something has happened beneath the surface. A bright little flashing fish of hope has flicked silver fins and the water is bright and suddenly I am returned to a state of love again - till next time.

You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.

The best way to excape his ire Is, not to seem too happy.

You have to just do your thing. As long as you don't hurt anybody along the way.

When we get out of this, I'm gonna shove my fist right into your ass, hard and fast Not in the sexual way! In the 'I am pissed off' sort of way.

They can't hurt you unless you let them.

I'm a Pisces, and Pisces have this weird inability to be completely spontaneous. We're too conscious of our actions. I've always been way too sensible for my own good.

Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.