In my childhood diary I wrote: “I have decided that it is better not to love anyone, because when you love people, then you have to be separated from them, and that hurts too much.
From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try to put out a fire by throwing on more fire. Do not wash a wound with blood. No matter how fast you run, your shadow more than keeps up. Sometimes it's in front. Only full, overhead sun diminishes your shadow. But that shadow has been serving you. What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.
This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your friends start to die, you can’t get fresh fruit in the shops.
A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.
What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.
Conscience is that which hurts when everything else feels marvelous.
I always knew it would come down to you and the big blue school boy. Planet's too big for the BOTH of you. When it all comes down, I want a piece of him. A small piece, will do? For OLD TIMES, sake, you know. . it still hurts when its cold.
It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract.
Love Through all the ups and downs the joys and hurts Love For better or worse I still will choose you first
Sometimes things aren't what they appear. We all have hurts that we don't show.
No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me.
If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.
Nothing hurts if you don't let it.
Resentment always hurts you more than the person you resent.
How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?
Men have commonly more pleasure in the criticism which hurts than in that which is innocuous, and are more tolerant of the severity which breaks hearts and ruins fortunes than of that which falls impotently on the grave.
Don't give until it hurts, give until it feels good.
I have a primary responsibility to myself; to make myself into the best person I can possibly be. Then and only then, will I have something worthwhile to share. - I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.