“there is nothing to be done.

only accept it…

and hurt.”

“Nothing can be repaired or advanced but only accepted”

“When we win, nothing hurts; when we lose, everything hurts. And the only time you hear someone use the phrase its only a game is when that person is losing.”

“He recognized and accepted this strange new feeling: that he would rather be hurt himself than hurt Alec.”

“The best of ideas is hurt by uncritical acceptance and thrives on critical examination.”

“Compassion constitutes a radical form of criticism, for it announces that the hurt is to be taken seriously, that the hurt is not to be accepted as normal and natural but is an abnormal and unacceptable condition for humanness.”

“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”

“… and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.”

“There are bad things in the world. There's no getting away from that. But that doesn't mean nothing can be done about them. You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because sometimes you get hurt.”

“I’ve got your back. Nothing alive will ever hurt you if I have breath in me. And nothing dead will hurt you if I don’t.” (Kisten)”