Pauline Phillips Quotes

Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

I've learnt the power of words. I've had the worst thrown at me.

hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

Someone told me once that I'm worse than a dog, I'm the scum of the earth, so for me it was draining.

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

I think every soft child in the world gets damaged. All of of us come into the world and get damaged. It's just a matter of how much.

There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.

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.

Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.

You can kill a man with those words. No gun. No bullets. Just words and a girl.

But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact

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.

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.

Rejection kills, disappointment only maims.

Sometimes people do get hurt

Back to my childhood where those monsters reside. They snack on innocence and dine on self esteem.

Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.

Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.

The artful injury, whose venomed dart scarce wounds the hearing, while it stabs the heart.

Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly.

Unmerited abuse wounds, while unmerited praise has not the power to heal.

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

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.