Emotional Damage Quotes

Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bittersweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.

It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.

The things we love destroy us every time, lad. Remember that.

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

I don’t want you to think I got through this undamaged, okay? But I’m learning to live with it. Because otherwise, the damage is all you are.

I hurt easy, I just don't show it. You can hurt someone and not even know it.

Hatred corrodes the container it’s carried in.

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.

Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger, travel too far that road and the way is lost.

It's extraordinary how little two people can understand each other and how cruel two people who are fond of each other can be to each other - there is practically no cruelty so awful because their power to hurt is so great.

hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!

We ought to regard the breaking of a child's spirit as a sin against humanity.

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

Neither of us seemed able to be close to anyone. Not even each other. Closeness meant the one you loved the most would cause you the most damage. How did you unlearn that? It was woven deep between every fiber and vessel. You couldn't cut it out.

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

don't take many words to break a fragile heart!

You play games with people's lives.(...) You forget that they are fragile.

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

Better a broken heart than a hardened one.

This is growing up, having to stomp out love, this is how people turn terrible.

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

No gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.

If we're damaged it will take 20 years to fix ourselves. It only takes one year to cause 20 years of damage.