105 Toxic People Quotes To Help Get Rid of the Negativity in Your Life

Toxic people quotes

At some point or another, we have all dealt with a toxic person infiltrating our lives. Whether it's a problematic family member, friend or romantic partner, relationships with toxic individuals can severely impact our mindsets and quality of life. Even with that, ridding ourselves of these relationships can be a daunting task. Parade formed this epic list of 105 toxic people quotes to empower you in ridding yourself of the negativity in your life. 

Life is too short to spend it around narcissists and drama-filled people who weigh you down and make you feel less about yourself. It's crucial to surround ourselves with individuals who uplift, nurture and inspire our well-being. Manipulators and gaslighters will slowly start to poison you, and in a world that's demanding enough, who needs more turmoil?

It takes courage to remove people with bad behavior from your life and set the boundaries you need in order to thrive. But, your future self will thank you for ridding your life of the unnecessary stress. Keep reading for the best toxic people quotes. 

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105 Toxic People Quotes

1. "Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate." –Mandy Hale

2. "A healthy relationship will never require you to sacrifice your friends, your dreams or your dignity." –Dinkar Kalotra

3. "Toxic people are like black holes, they suck out your positive energy." –Karen Salmansohn

4. "Life is short. Don’t waste it with negative people who don’t appreciate you. Keep them in your heart but keep them out of your life." –Unknown

5. "The less you respond to negative people, the more powerful your life will become." –Robert E. Baine, Jr.

6. "Toxic people create chaos, point fingers, shift blame and avoid taking responsibility." –Dr. Anne Brown

7. "Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally." –Kamand Kojouri 

8. "People who are not happy with themselves cannot possibly be happy with you." 

9. "Your life is too valuable to waste on people who don't appreciate you." –Turcois Ominek

10. "A toxic person only changes their victims, never themselves." –Unknown

11."It's crazy how toxic people can manipulate others into thinking you're a bad person." –Tamuda Bianca

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12. "Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good." –Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. "Don't associate yourself with toxic people. It's better to be alone and love yourself than to be surrounded by people that make you hate yourself." –Robin Williams

14. "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions." –Mark Twain

15. "People appear like angels until you hear them speak. You must not rush to judge people by the color of their cloaks, but by the content of their words!” –Israelmore Ayivo

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16. "Letting go of toxic people in your life is a big step in loving yourself." –Hussein Nishah

17. "Drama is for fools. The wise stay calm." –Maxime Lagacé

18. "Don't waste your words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes, the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all." –Unknown

19. "It’s amazing how quickly things can turn around when you remove toxic people from your life." –Robert Tew

20. "Pay no attention to toxic words. What people say is often a reflection of themselves, not you." –Christian Baloga

21. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." –Eleanor Roosevelt

22. "Because at some point you have to realize that some people can stay in your heart but not in your life." –Sandi Lynn

23. "May you reach that level within, where you no longer allow your past or people with toxic intentions to negatively affect or condition you." –Lalah Delia

24. "The only way to deal with a toxic person is to not play their games." –Unknown

25. "Do not waste your time on things you can't change. Know when to walk away from toxic people and hopeless situations." –Unknown

26. "Hanging around the small-minded eventually makes us small-minded. The plant only grows as big as the environment it’s in." –Torron-Lee Dewar

27. "You lift your spirits by moving away from what upsets you. If the stove is hot, you can’t ask how to touch it but be happy about it." –Queen Tourmaline

28. "Toxic people attach themselves like cinder blocks tied to your ankles, and then invite you for a swim in their poisoned waters." –John Mark Green

29. "The idea is quite simple: stay a lightyear away from people who make you feel less about yourself." –Mohith Agadi

30. "If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind." –Shannon L. Alder

31. "Handling toxic people is not an art, they will be the victim of their own toxicity." – P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

32. "I have found the best way to deal with a toxic person is to not respond in any other way than monotone voice and a businesslike manner." –Jen Grice

33. "People who try to bring you down every day aren’t important in your life, so you better treat their opinions as such." –Terry Mark

34. "Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below you." –Ziad K. Abdelnour

35. Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment." –Lao Tzu

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36. "Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself." –Deborah Reber

37. "People inspire you, or they drain you. Pick them wisely." –Hans F. Hasen

38. "Toxic people have no concept of boundaries." –Sarah Regan

39. "You cannot expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people." –Joel Osteen

40. "Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions." –Will Smith

41. "Losing negative people to gain your inner peace is always a fair tradeoff." –Unknown

42. "Avoid people who complain about everything." –Mackenzie Smith

43. "Protect your peace. Get rid of toxicity. Cleanse your space. Cultivate love." –Thema Davis

44. "The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships." –Anthony Robbins

45. "We all get it wrong sometimes, but toxic people will make sure you know it." –Karen Young

46. "You are not a garbage dump for other people's issues." –Bryant McGill

47. "Not everyone you lose is a loss." –Unknown

48. "Toxic people don't like when people see through them, so they'll do all they can to make everyone else look like a monster." –Nitya Prakash

49. "If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome." –Michael Jordan

50. "Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution." –Albert Einstein

51. "Don't let toxic people infect you with the fear of giving and receiving one of the most powerful forces in this world – love!" –Yvonne Pierre

52. "We don’t get to choose our family, but we can choose our friends. With courage, we can weed out narcissistic people. We can focus on those who do appreciate us, love us, and treat us with respect." –Dana Arcuri

53. "The wrong person will give you less than what you’re worth but that doesn’t mean that you have to accept it." –Sonya Parker

54. "Cutting toxic people out of your life doesn’t mean you hate them, it simply means you respect yourself. Not everyone is meant to stay." –Unknown

55. "Beware of those around you who subtly sow the seeds of doubt." –Wayne Gerard Trotman

56. "If your friends laugh at your goals and dreams, they are not your friends." –Dan Go

57. "When dealing with toxic people, always choose distance over disrespect." –Germany Kent

58. "The minute she rid herself from toxic people, she started glowing like a beautiful sunset in Barbados." –Charmaine J. Forde

59. "Keeping bad company is like being in a germ-infested area. You never know what you’ll catch." –Frank Sonnenberg

60. "If you walked away from a toxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead-end low vibrational relationship or friendship, you won." –Lalah Delia

61. "People who create their own drama deserve their own karma." –Unknown

62. "If you allow people to make more withdrawals than deposits in your life, you will be out of balance and in the negative. Know when to close the account." –Christie Williams

63. "If they do it often, it isn’t a mistake; it’s just their behavior." –Steve Maraboli

64. "The best defense is to keep off the radar of negative people." –Steven Redhead

65. "You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles." –C. JoyBell C.

66. "Entitlement is an expression of conditional love. Nobody is ever entitled to your love. You always have a right to protect your mental, emotional, and physical well-being by removing yourself from toxic people and circumstances." –Dr. Janice Anderson and Kiersten Anderson

67. "It’s very possible and very okay to forgive someone and still not want to spend time with them." –Karen Salmansohn

68. "I burned my bridges so the devil couldn’t follow me." –L.M. Browning

69. "I am worth more than excuses. I am worth more than an inconsistent, unhealthy, disappointing dynamic. I am worthy of finding someone that is never going to allow us to settle into this toxic, distorted version of love." –Liz Newman

70. "I will not allow anyone to walk in my mind with dirty feet." –Gandhi

71. "Toxic relationships are like a good pasta that has been overcooked." –Asa Don Brown

72. "I’ve found the most tragic aspect of losing loved ones wasn’t the big boom of the fallout, but realizing later how much healthier I was without them." –Maggie Young

73. "Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you." –Israelmore Ayivor

74. "Toxic people like you more when you don’t challenge them. They prefer to have an upper hand over you." –Mitta Xinindlu

75. "Surround yourself with positive people who will support you when it rains, not just when it shines." –Unknown

76. "If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do." –Vironika Tugaleva

77. "To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals." –Michael Bassey Johnson

78. "While you can’t control someone’s negative behavior, you can control how long you participate in it." –Unknown

79. "If you attach to the negative behavior of others it brings you down to their level."  –Guru Singh

80. "Protect your spirit from contamination. Limit your time with negative people." –Thema Davis

81. "You are not a rehab. It’s not your job to fix everyone." –Unknown

82. "Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see greatness within you, even when you don't see it yourself." –Edmund Lee

83. "There are people who break you down by just being them. They need not do anything. Dissociate." –Malebo Sephodi

84. "You create more space in your life when you turn your excess baggage to garbage." –Chinonye J. Chidolue

85. "People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we dislike ourselves, the more we want others to suffer." –Dan Pearce

86. "There’s folks you just don’t need. You’re better off without them. Your life is just a little better because they aren't in it." –William Gay

87. "Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept." –Anna Taylor

88. "As important as it is to learn how to deal with different kinds of people, truly toxic people will never be worth your time and energy – and they take a lot of each. Toxic people create unnecessary complexity, strife, and, worst of all, stress." –Travis Bradberry

89. "It’s one thing if a person owns up to their behavior and makes an effort to change. But if a person disregards your feelings, ignores your boundaries, and continues to treat you in a harmful way, they need to go." –Daniell Koepke

90. "When I stop eating certain things, I feel so much better. I notice the same when I stop dealing with certain people." –Steve Maraboli

91. "Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher." –Oprah Winfrey

92. "We all have those toxic people around us that make our lives miserable. The day we take them out from our lives, we will all become better people; including them." –Rodolfo Peon

93. "You don't ever have to feel guilty about removing toxic people from your life. It doesn't matter whether someone is a relative, romantic interest, employer, childhood friend, or a new acquaintance — you don't have to make room for people who cause you pain or make you feel small." –Danielle Koepke

94. "The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion." –Stefan Molyneux

95. "Sometimes the people around you won't understand your journey. They don't need to, it's not for them." –Joubert Botha

96. "Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny." –Steve Maraboli

97. "How you choose to feel today should not be dependent on others." –Anthon St. Maarten

98. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." –Unknown

99. "Don't let toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out." –Zig Ziglar

100. "Weeding out the harmful influences should become the norm not the exception." –Carlos Wallace

101. "Let negative people live their negative lives with their negative minds." –Moosa Rahat

102. "If somebody is looking for a bin to throw all their trash into, make sure it’s not in your mind." –Dalai Lama

103. "Don't excuse toxic traits by trying to highlight the loving ones." –Jenny Winbladh

104. "The only thing more exhausting than being with a toxic person is pretending they're not toxic." –Germany Kent

105. "Every day you must unlearn the ways that hold you back. You must rid yourself of negativity, so you can learn to fly." –Leon Brown

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