“You really hurt me. I wouldn't hurt you.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: The Angel Experiment
Source: Shadowland
“You really hurt me. I wouldn't hurt you.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: The Angel Experiment
“But the hoping, that's what really hurts.”
Shannon Hale book Book of a Thousand Days
Source: Book of a Thousand Days
“Things that really, really hurt are the right things to do.”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Secret Vampire
“Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.”
Bill Mauldin (1921–2003) American editorial cartoonist
As quoted in TIME magazine (21 July 1961)
Context: The American public highly overrates its sense of humor. We're great belly laughers and prat fallers, but we never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.
Alan Greenspan (1926) 13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve in the United States
At a conference on inflation, Washington, D.C. (September 19, 1974). In Report of the Health, Education, and Welfare, Income Security, Social Services Conference on Inflation (1974), pp. 804–5.
1970s
“I am really in love with Sam, and it hurts very much.”
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower