"Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but..." - Quote by C S Lewis
Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart.
More by C S Lewis
“It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather confusing.”
“A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.”
“If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.”
More on Communication
“Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent.”
“For everything outside the phenomenal world, language can only be used allusively, but never even approximately in a comparative way, since, corresponding as it does to the phenomenal world, it is concerned only with property and its relations.”
“How hard it is for women to keep counsel!”
More on Emotion
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
“Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.”
“Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.”