John Boyega Quotes

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

My money was stolen from me. I was eventually stripped of the ability to make even the most basic decisions... my daily life became unbearable.

According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.

There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.

I was made fun of by a lot of other kids in such a way that I didn't feel like I was human.

I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand.

The operation left me very emotional. I cry a lot anyway. I've always been the type to feel hurt easily, but now I hit rock bottom.

HBOS had robbed me of my marriage, my family, my businesses, my longstanding friend and business partner, my income, my investments, my self-respect, my reputation, my privacy, my physical and mental health. It cost me my security, my image rights, my collection of classic cars - and very nearly my life.

I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right to be, even months afterwards caused me sometimes weeks of pain. Every time any one of these disagreeable incidents came into my mind, my heart sank, and I was anew tortured by the thought of what I had endured, almost as much as the incident itself.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.

There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.

Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?

It's the worst kind of cruelty — the thoughtless kind. You can't cope with it.

But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.

All hurt is brain hurt.

Facts mean nothing to wounded feelings.

To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.

I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.

I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice.

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize - it does.

The body is not the only target of rape. Violence does not always take a visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.