“I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe."

pg 287”
― Veronica Roth, Carve the Mark

“People fear death even more than they fear pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over.”
― Jim Morrison

“Life will break every one of your contracts & still look at you with that innocent glimmer in her eye & ask you to marry her.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Amongst the first lies that adults teach children is that life is a golden dream where anything is possible. A child is initiated into is the concept of the American Dream, which suggested that all Americans could look forward to an easy life of prosperity, free from doubt and worry, and exempt from heartache and tragedy. Perhaps one of the greatest errors of a parent is to introduce children to the world of fairy tales, wizardry, and the power of dreams. Perhaps we might be of greater service by telling children the truth about life – life hurts – living requires enduring pain, loss, and sacrifice.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Why do you feel hurt?

Why do I feel hurt? It is because life hurts me. It stabs at my back when I least expect it. It hurts because I don't know the difference between friend and foe. I am hurt because there are wars in our world. And I hurt because I know in the end when you meet the one they will just leave you.”
― London