Neil Gaiman Quotes

Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.

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.

Verbally, I'm quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to.

As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.

You don't want to let on how hurt you are because some people will see that as a sign of weakness, they might use it against you.

You're so afraid of being hurt that you attack first. Only those who really care about you will weather the assault of your verbal attacks and stay. The rest will fall away.

Colin thought about the dork mantra: sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. What a dirty lie.

I've always protected myself when it comes to love. And maybe that's the problem. By not letting myself get hurt now, it ripples into much bigger pain later.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I put a lot of stock in the written word, and the power of it. That's what I love about acting and reading scripts. 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.

The hurts of childhood that must be avenged: so small and so huge.

When we use memories, we are creators. But when our memories use us, we become victims.

It is a mistake to think you cant be hurt if you don't care

Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt

Everyone could face something that hurts him. But I don't expect that I will be hurt

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.

Only do it if you absolutely have to, because you are gonna eat rejection every single day. And it's not easy eating that rejection every single day because it hurts. You have to learn not to take it personally. And that is a very hard lesson to learn.

I saw people who were hostile; they had felt so much hurt that hostility was their only defense against being crushed again.

That was my earliest maladaptive coping mechanism I forged when I was a kid. I found that my fists weren't going to do any significant protective work for me, so my mouth was it. Making my father laugh was a way to control him.

My mother's in my life, but at the time you imagine your mom passing away, not being there ... as a kid you try to think of something that hurts you the most ... It was just a tool [in "Hardball"].

Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt.

She wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.

Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.

When we're hurting, it does not give us a license to hurt others.