Menander Quotes

Sometimes words are harder than blows.

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.

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.

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

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 can break your bones, but names can kill you.

But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rubber band further away until finally, one day, it snaps back at you with maximum impact

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

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

There are all sorts of ways of murdering a person or at least his soul, and that's something no police in the world can spot.

If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard.

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.

The wound that’s made by fire will heal, But the wound that’s made by tongue will never heal.

Jayalalithaa was brutalised from the age of 16 in the cinema world. She therefore bears a psychotic pleasure in humiliating people as she was humiliated. She was deadened to normal human emotions.

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

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

There are words which cut like steel.

But those with shattered souls find it very difficult to speak.

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

The wound that bleedeth inward is most dangerous.

Humiliate the reason and distort the soul.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually stronger in the very place they were broken and where they have knitted up; mental wounds can grind and ooze for decades and be re-opened by the quietest whisper.