Camille Kostek 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.

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

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

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

Often I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of the day, and it's a horrible feeling to realize something wasn't just a bland statement, but was actually cruel. But then we're all capable of - of things that are breathtakingly cruel.

There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt.

Sometimes words are harder than blows.

A person can destroy me with two words. It can just be the way they say them, the inflection.

Often, I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of the day, and it's a horrible feeling to realize something wasn't just a bland statement but was actually cruel. But then, we're all capable of things that are breathtakingly cruel.

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.

When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it as if it's a kind of spell that's going to protect you. I've never seen the logic of it. Cuts and bruises quickly disappear. You forget all about them. The psychological wounds inflicted by bullies with words go much deeper.

You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.

I've never been a big fan of gossip. Being a victim of it, I knew how much it hurt.

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

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

If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Just as the sword can kill, so can the tongue.

'Mean' is a song I wrote about somebody who wrote things that were so mean so many times that it would ruin my day. Then it would ruin the next day. And it would level me so many times, I just felt like I was being hit in the face every time this person would take to their computer.

I think after being kicked and slapped on social media a billion times, I had this one time. This lady said I was a deplorable human being, and that hurt.

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