“Hurt no man, and the second, Then do as you please.”

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

Conor Oberst (1980) American musician

“Please tell me your second name.
Please play me your second game.
I've fallen so far
For the people you are.
I just need your star for a day.”

Nick Drake (1948–1974) British singer-songwriter

“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.”

John Green book The Fault in Our Stars

“Hey, please, if you don't know me, please take a few seconds just to judge me by how I look. Appreciate the laugh there, thank you very much.”

Marc Maron (1963) Comedian

“Wine makes a man more pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

“In the second half of life, people have less power to infatuate you. But they also have much less power to control you or hurt you.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

“Don't die. Don't die! You don't have to win. You don't have to keep trying! Just don't get hurt anymore, please!”

Tite Kubo (1977) Japanese manga artist

“This endeavour to do a thing or leave it undone, solely in order to please men, we call ambition, especially when we so eagerly endeavour to please the vulgar, that we do or omit certain things to our own or another's hurt : in other cases it is generally called kindliness.”
Hic conatus aliquid agendi et etiam omittendi ea sola de causa ut hominibus placeamus, vocatur ambitio præsertim quando adeo impense vulgo placere conamur ut cum nostro aut alterius damno quædam agamus vel omittamus; alias humanitas appellari solet.

Baruch Spinoza book Ethics

“A man should be free to do what he wants to do, as long as it doesn't hurt others.”

David Gemmell book Legend