Verbal Hurt Quotes

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

If words could break souls, my words just broke his in two.

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

Sometimes words are harder than blows.

Sometimes people don't know what is behind the words they use. But an innocent little remark at school can affect you later in life.

With bullying and all the stuff going on, words are very important. Words can be more hurtful than anything physically. I got little kids, and it's common sense when you're raising them that the main thing is how you talk to people, and how you treat people. Sometimes I think the world forgets that as we get older.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together

There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.

I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.

There are words which cut like steel.

What you said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to the bank.

A stick or a stone only stings for a minute. A name seems to hurt forever.

..and only sticks and stones can break my bones.

In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

My stomach gets that hollowed-out feeling. It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart.

Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.

You feel hurt when you hear things which you are supposed to have said, which you wouldn't even have given a thought to.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.

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

My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me.

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

Verbal blows cut to the soul and ate at the heart for eternity.