Peter Sellers Quotes

Often I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of the day, and it's a horrible feeling to realize something wasn't just a bland statement, but was actually cruel. But then we're all capable of - of things that are breathtakingly cruel.

I just think that as much as we say sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me - words do hurt.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

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.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.

I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones.

Often, I think bullying - especially in its adult, verbal forms - is the sort of thing you don't realize till the end of the day, and it's a horrible feeling to realize something wasn't just a bland statement but was actually cruel. But then, we're all capable of things that are breathtakingly cruel.

I've learnt the power of words. I've had the worst thrown at me.

I was told I'm disgusting, that I belong in a dumpster, that I'm going to hell... just the worst things you could say to somebody.

I don't want to be a punching bag.

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit.

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.

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

When a man is hit by Friendly Fire, his blood pressure lowers and his morale sinks. I have been hit by Friendly Fire in my heart. Sighs spill from my body instead of blood.

But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.

Just because your leg might heal doesn't mean it doesn't feel broken. It doesn't mean that a car hitting your body doesn't hurt like the same it would hurt if a car hit your body.

You're always feeling powerless in life. If you're in an abusive relationship or working for what we call a psychotic boss sometimes the only option is to leave because you're emotions get so entangled with these manipulative people that staying there you're just helpless because they're good at passive aggressive games and you're not, so you have to leave.

I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.

That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed.

To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.