“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”
George Eliot book Silas Marner
Source: Silas Marner
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.”
George Eliot book Silas Marner
Source: Silas Marner
“Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me.”
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)
“The rain
Never falls upwards.
When the wound
Stops hurting
What hurts is
The scar.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
"Poems Belonging to a Reader for Those who Live in Cities" [Zum Lesebuch für Städtebewohner gehörige Gedichte] (1926-1927), poem 10, trans. Frank Jones in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 148
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)
“Never get involved. That's my motto. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.”
Adeline Yen Mah (1937) Author and physician
Variant: Don't trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.
Source: Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter
“The humble Cumulus humilis - never hurt a soul.”
Gavin Pretor-Pinney (1950) British writer
Source: The Cloudspotter's Guide
Kate Bornstein (1948) American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender theorist
Source: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (1995), p. 9