Hurtful Behavior Quotes

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.

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

Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.

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

It is very easy for us to go, you know, "I am being cruel to be kind," when really we are just ... being cruel. Because it makes us feel big, or whatever.

...to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness.

All of us in the field must remain constantly vigilant and fight against all types of inappropriate and hurtful behavior and continue the essential work of creating a fair and safe work environment for all classical musicians.

A small unkindness is a great offence.

I was living a life of a lie. And I was doing a lot of things, that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly.

Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and all milk on the other, the unsexed scandal-monger hies from house to house, pouring balm from its weeping eyes on the wounds it inflicts with its stabbing tongue.

People hurt each other. That's what people do.

Unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.

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

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

hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself.

I look for women I know are gonna bust me up good. Come on, man, who can resist that? Who can resist that emotional pain? Yeah, they all have the same line, they're so sweet: I'm not gonna hurt you like all the others. Really I'm not. I'm gonna introduce you to a whole new level of pain!

Boys like it when you're mean. That's what I'm best at. I make them feel so bad about themselves, all out of fun.

In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.

You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down.

I think that human beings, even the ones who are sometimes hurting you, are often very, very confused at their center.

I just don't want people to mistake playing basketball, playing hard with trying to hurt somebody.

Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.

Children are knives, my mother once said. They don’t mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don’t we, we clasp them until the blood flows.