100+ Impactful 'Words Can Hurt' Quotes to Reflect On
In the vast landscape of human communication, words wield immense power. They have the ability to inspire and uplift, yet they can also cut deeper than a sword. In this exploration of "Words Can Hurt" quotes, we delve into the impact of negative speech and the profound effect it can have on one's psyche. Through ten poignant sub-titles, each adorned with a dozen impactful quotes, we aim to illuminate the various facets of how words can inflict pain, self-doubt, and emotional wounds. By highlighting these perspectives, this piece invites reflection on the importance of mindful communication and the necessity for empathy and understanding in our interactions.
"Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles." - Korean Proverb
"Once spoken, words can never be recalled." - Wentworth Dillon
"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." - Rudyard Kipling
"Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed." - Abraham Joshua Heschel
"Words are seeds that do more than blow around. They land in our hearts and not the ground." - Unknown
"Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten." - Carl Sandburg
"Words can inspire. And words can destroy. Choose yours well." - Robin Sharma
"A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever." - Jessamyn West
"Words cut deeper than swords." - Unknown
"Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity." - Herman Hesse
"Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs." - Pearl Strachan Hurd
"The tongue has no bones but is strong enough to break a heart. So be careful with your words." - Unknown
"The tongue is like a sharp knife; it kills without drawing blood." - Buddha
"Words are such strange little, cruel things." - Richard K. Morgan
"Your words have power so think before you speak." - Unknown
"The mouth speaks what the heart is full of." - Unknown
"Sharp words can cut deeply but silence can also break a heart." - Unknown
"The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing." - Proverbs 12:18
"Words spoken can never be recalled." - Wentworth Dillon
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Words that do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness." - Mother Teresa
"Most people are clever enough to know that hurtful words come back to haunt them." - Irish Proverb
"Words are free. It’s how you use them that may cost you." - Kushandwizdom
"Words are like arrows: once loosed, you cannot call them back." - George R.R. Martin
"Sometimes it's not the words that hurt the most, it's the silence that follows." - Unknown
"Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing." - William S. Burroughs
"Speech is silver, silence is golden." - Thomas Carlyle
"It's better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln
"Sometimes it's essential to say nothing to be heard." - Fran Lebowitz
"Silence is a true friend who never betrays." - Confucius
"The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear." - Rumi
"To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words." - Elbert Hubbard
"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality." - Seneca
"A meaningful silence is always better than meaningless words." - Unknown
"Sometimes the quietest voices can be the most powerful." - Unknown
"Words can be used as a murder weapon." - Carolina Chandra
"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got." - Robert Brault
"The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it." - Nicholas Sparks
"The scars you can't see are the hardest to heal." - Astrid Alauda
"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget." - Thomas Szasz
"There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds." - Laurell K. Hamilton
"Every word has consequences. Every silence, too." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"You can’t fast forward healing, not with emotional wounds." - Rachel Naomi Remen
"Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds." - Elie Wiesel
"Our words have power. They impact others, but they also impact us." - Michael Hyatt
"Harsh words fuck you up forever." - Marina Keegan
"Words are powerful. They can create and they can destroy. Choose yours well." - Unknown
"A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies." - Mark Twain
"The trouble with lies is that they wear out before truth does." - Gail Carson Levine
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." - Charles Spurgeon
"Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons." - Michael Jackson
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." - Socrates
"The truth doesn’t cost anything, but a lie could cost you everything." - Unknown
"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain
"The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else." - George Bernard Shaw
"A good lie finds more believers than a bad truth." - Proverb
"Truth builds trust." - Marilyn Suttle
"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
"When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth." - Khaled Hosseini
"Words fray out at the edges; it's for others to see what remains woven in the end." - Virginia Woolf
"Words can plant gardens or burn whole forests." - Danielle Doby
"Apologies are band-aids for hurt feelings. They don’t fully heal the emotional cuts." - Richelle E. Goodrich
"You don’t have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will shine enough." - Morgan Harper Nichols
"Words that are kind cost so little, so light, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa
"Real friends stab you in the front." - Oscar Wilde
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.
"Words are a lens to focus one’s mind." - Ayn Rand
"Words are free. It’s how you use them that may cost you." - Kushandwizdom
"Be careful with your words, for they become promises that can build and break relationships." - Unknown
"A single lie discovered is enough to create doubt in every truth expressed." - Unknown
"The secret to a long-lasting friendship is using your kind words as weapons instead of swords." - Unknown
"Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives." - Akshay Dubey
"The strong person is not the good wrestler; the strong person is only the one who controls himself when he is angry." - Prophet Muhammad
"Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened." - Dr. Seuss
"Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step." - Mariska Hargitay
"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise." - Victor Hugo
"The wound is the place where the Light enters you." - Rumi
"What happens when people open their hearts? They get better." - Haruki Murakami
"Even after your wound heals, the scar may still remain as a souvenir." - Unknown
"Hurt falls away when we let go." - Bryant McGill
"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength." - Corrie Ten Boom
"Sometimes what a person needs most is to be reminded how awesome they are." - Unknown
"Words can be a tool for healing, when used to uplift." - Unknown
"The only journey is the one within." - Rainer Maria Rilke
"It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you." - Leon Brown
"Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence and self–esteem." - Unknown
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw
"Growth is the only evidence of life." - John Henry Newman
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." - Zig Ziglar
"Know yourself to improve yourself." - Auguste Comte
"Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement." - Baltasar Gracian
"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito." - Dalai Lama
"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." - Jim Rohn
"The art of communication is the language of leadership." - James Humes
"Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply." - Stephen Covey
"Communication works for those who work at it." - John Powell
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." - George Bernard Shaw
"To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others." - Tony Robbins
"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn’t said." - Peter Drucker
"Speak less than you know; have more than you show." - William Shakespeare
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless." - Mother Teresa
"Good words are worth much, and cost little." - George Herbert
"The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives." - Tony Robbins
"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know." - Jim Rohn
"Words are symbols for shared memories. If I use a word, then you should have some experience of what the word denotes. If not, the word means nothing to you." - Jorge Luis Borges
"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." - Lewis B. Smedes
"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." - Mark Twain
"Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace." - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Still, what I want in my life is to be willing, to be dazzled, to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world." - Mary Oliver
"Nobody is perfect. We all make mistakes. Just be willing to learn from them." - Unknown
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." - Paul Boese
"Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation." - Roberto Assagioli
"When you forgive, you release yourself from a painful burden." - Unknown
"Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You’re not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.'" - Jodi Picoult
"True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for that experience.'" - Oprah Winfrey
"Forgive others not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace." - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
