Randa Abdel-Fattah Quotes

A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

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

People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten.

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.

There are things that can harm a lot more than physically.

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

Words don't hurt you." Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.

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

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

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.

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

It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.

Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.

Bullying can be physical, verbal or emotional. Words and threats are just as painful as fists, especially with social media these days. For those of you who don't know, I was actually bullied as a young boy on one occasion.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

Sometimes words are harder than blows.

I just think that as much as we say sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me - words do hurt.

Being called ugly every day is not easy on the psyche.

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.

This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts.

Pain in the present is experienced as hurt. Pain in the past is remembered as anger. Pain in the future is perceived as anxiety. Unexpressed anger, redirected against yourself and held within, is called guilt. The depletion of energy that occurs when anger is redirected inward creates depression.

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