Using People Quotes

“There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

“A boy has other people do the talking for him; a man speaks his mind.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Spend your time with those who love you unconditionally, not with those who only love you under certain conditions.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Have you not realised how fragile and brutal the ego is? It will always choose what it perceives as in its best interest for the cheapest price. It may be as blatant as short skirts and lies. It may be more sophisticated and hidden behind ‘kind’ words. But it all comes from the same place of either using people to get what we want or trying to eliminate people who get in our way.”
― Donna Goddard, Together

“The opposite of love is not hate; it is use. Use is the abuse of love; in fact, it betrays love. When we use another person, we place their needs below our own, but worse yet, we place their value and dignity below ours.”
― Leah Darrow, The Other Side of Beauty: Embracing God's Vision for Love and True Worth

“Beware of fair-weather friends.
They come to you when the sky is crystal clear and disappear when the same sky is overcast with dark clouds.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“This is our skin and nobody has the right to crumple us like a paper only to find another skin to write on, and then another, ruining people like they’re pages, like they are somehow replaceable. Because that will only leave our delicate and fragile selves into a tattered mess.”
― Heema Shirvaikar

“The worst thing about being underweight or overweight; too dark or too white – in short too plain and bland in someone’s perception is the fact that most people just end up talking to you because they feel you can be a good stepping stone. And guess what – it sucks! It sucks being the ladder to so many, helping everyone grow and bloom, only to find yourself splayed upon the mud to be used as a path from one person to another. Not moving an inch. Just lying there on the sticky dirt infused ground – hoping someone would help you up – no one ever comes. The only person who can help you crawl out is yourself. Get up. Try. Just try.
You ARE Enough!”
― Sijdah Hussain, Red Sugar, No More

“I too often allow people to become a sterile commodity to be bartered in the service of my greed, and in doing something so absurdly reckless I foolishly barter away everything that meets my need.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Hey Gurllll!
Introduce me to that bird?
Can I have that plant’s number?
Could you do my music assignment?
Here, hold my beanie.
Gotta go, byeee!”
― Sijdah Hussain, Red Sugar, No More

“Using one’s beauty was the only way a smart girl could get by, at least that’s how it was back then, though even for a smart girl there were really only three professions. You could be a nurse or a teacher or a wife.”
― Shannon Celebi, Small Town Demons

“Do not assume that someone else’s ego can love you. It cannot. It does not even love the person it resides in. The limit of the ego’s 'love' is to decide that you are a temporary ally and thus it will protect you for the benefit of its own use. Only a soul can accept and return love. Everything else is manipulation. Fragile arrangements. They are, at best, suspicious and, at worst, vicious.”
― Donna Goddard, Circles of Separation

“You used me. You Ade me feel special then you threw me away when you were bored. You took my trust. You broke my trust. You turned people against me. You turned me against myself.”
― Faith Dismuke

“He could not remember one gesture of tenderness he had given her, neither at the beginning, nor then, nor now, nor at any time.
He accepted, but did not understand it, this feeling of hers for him, all he knew was that it pleased and angered hum at the same time and he had no wish to put her from him.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Julius

“Aki: – In amore… non si pensa affatto all’altra persona, come tutti credono. È solo un gioco per poter tenere in pugno chi ti piace. Per usare l’altro a tuo piacimento.”
― Yuuki Obata, We Were There, Vol. 11

“Yash's happiness is in being governor of California. Then moving on to even bigger things. I'm the one who will get him there. You're the one who will get in his way."
Every time India thought she could walk away without answering, the woman said something that made it impossible. "And you don't care how you get there? You don't care that you're holding him to ransom when all he was doing was helping you? You don't care that you've turned him into a crutch?"
Naina paled at that. India had hit a nerve. But every aha moment fought you. That's what made the journey so hard.”
― Sonali Dev, Incense and Sensibility

“Using people has limit.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih