Quote by Aldous Mercer

“I want to be human so badly it hurts.”

— Sangu Mandanna

“I found that when it hurt, sometimes the most effective response was to feel the pain rather than wish it away or pretend it…

— Phindiwe Nkosi

“... when people want to hurt someone very much, they often reach for the thing that would hurt themselves most deeply.”

— K.J. Charles

“I'm in pain all the time,' I said, 'and if I gave into it then I'd do nothing.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“Pretend it doesn't hurt, and hope like hell that one day it doesn't anymore.”

— C.C. Hunter

“ You were merely wishing for the end of pain, the monster said. Your own pain. An end to how it isolated you. It…

— Patrick Ness

“Not that I'm the kind of person who would actually inflict emotional pain on another human being out of a selfish, twisted need for…

— Jennifer Gilby Roberts

“What if you weren't the person I hoped you were? That, more than anything, would have hurt the most.”

— Jay Asher

“It reminded me that pain was necessary. Pain was life's curveball. Without it, we would never appreciate what it felt like to be loved.”

— S.L. Jennings

“I was in pain and wanted others to feel it, too.”

— Diary Of An Oxygen Thief

“I guess I felt like the reason I was so hurt afterward was because I'd gotten carried away, started thinking too far ahead of…

— Jack Cheng

“I suppose it’s a comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse damage to yourself then the world will ever dare inflict.”

— Chuck Palahniuk