“I tell people that I’ve never been hurt by an honest question, and that’s true: it’s a cruel opinion that hurts, not a question.”

“Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

“Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

“I want you to be honest with me. Even if it hurts. Although I would prefer for it not to hurt.”

David Levithan book Every Day

“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”

George Eliot book Silas Marner

“Jace knew he was being cruel, and he barely cared. Hurting people he loved was almost as good as hurting himself when he was in this kind of mood.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“I've always been crazy and the trouble that it's put me through;
I've been busted for things that I did, and I didn't do.
I can't say I’m proud of all of the things that I’ve done,
But I can say I’ve never intentionally hurt anyone.”

Waylon Jennings (1937–2002) American country music singer, songwriter, and musician

“Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“My question always was: why do people always cause so much pain to other people? Why does everybody look so hurt? When I started to paint I didn’t feel I had any message. My art was not an answer – it was a question.”

Gottfried Helnwein (1948) Austrian photographer and painter

“I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.”

Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)