“Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.”

“It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except "be there". I want to make him stop hurting, but I can't.”

“There are only so many times that you can utter ‘It does not hurt’ before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt. You become enlightened of the feeling of feeling hurt, which is worse, I am certain, than the existent hurt.”

“You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.”

“I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.”

“Tis not that dieing hurts us so- tis living- hurts us more.”

“You ever laughed so hard
nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute,
no matter what they tried to do to you?”

“It hurts to care! It hurts so much to care!”

“You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.”

“My ankle hurts from dancing last night so there is pain. But the pain doesn't hurt me for there is no me.”