Joseph Brodsky Quotes

The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who haven't liked some of the things I'm supposed to have said and who have used it as an opportunity to be verbally abusive and nasty, but I haven't let it rule my world!

'They' is... stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of 'they.' You might have a personal 'they.' They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don't like winners; they don't like people who's blessed. So everybody's got a different 'they.'

I deal with haters on a daily basis.

Bullies are just ignorant.

Somebody saying something offensive to you or insulting to you is not pleasant, but it's part of life.

I was different. I got beat up every day.

Unfortunately, I'm used to the insults.

I had to deal with so many haters.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they're gonna do it.

I feel like everyone in life someway or somehow may have been bullied - or may have been a bully.

In a way, bullying is an ordinary evil. It's hugely prevalent, all too often ignored - and being ignored, it is therefore condoned.

I would say that no one in this world can say that they've never been bullied or have violence against them.

I got beat up my whole life.

Even if I don't always behave as I should, this still doesn't explain why so many people have something against me. But you know how it is. A lot of people vent themselves by coming to the stadium to yell at me. I hope it's not racism. I tell myself that it's not racism; it's because I'm tough, and I repeat this to myself.

I hate mean people. People who just pick at you and try to force you into a train wreck.

All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

I hate bullies. I hate them. I'm not good enough with words to describe how much I hate them.

I'm not good with bullies and zealots.

I get beat up on every project.

Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.

I never caught on to being a bully.

I think that being bullied is a shameful experience.

Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.

We're picking on people we can beat.

These good Christians do not have the courage to face me. They follow my children around and shout at them, "Your father is a mass murderer" and other terrible epithets.