“Your hurt is so great that it shouldn’t hurt you.”

“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.”

“Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings.”

“Your body
Hurts me as the world hurts God”

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

“So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.”

“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 was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.”

“Love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt.
Do you like to hurt?
I do, I do
then hurt me.”

“Even the parts within you that seem to be hurting you, are actually doing so because they think it is in your best interest.”