“It's a wonderful, wonderful opera, except that it hurts.”
Episode 2, Chapter 15
The Power of Myth (1988)
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American mythologist, writer and lecturer 1904–1987Related quotes

“How wonderful to be alive," he thought. "But why does it always hurt?”
Doctor Zhivago (1957)
Source: El doctor Zhivago
“To be left behind… or to leave behind. I wonder which hurts more.”
Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 16

“I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.”
Variant: I wonder if it's possible to have happiness without it being at someone else's expense.
Source: Boy Meets Boy

Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)

“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
Lord Goring, Act II
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)