It Was Not Pride That hurts Me.

(Today I was hurt. I have not learned not to be hurt.)

... pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts — not to hurt others.

- George Eliot


Call me "proud", I hurt alone.

- Ghostwise

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To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

- Albert Camus


And even when we live in exile, we have not lost the capability to hurt ourself.

- Ghostwise

I Hate Love.

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”

- Neil Gaiman


And yet like a moth to the naked flame...

- Ghostwise

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“The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other”

- Ashleigh Brilliant


Can love be measured by the amount of hurt?

- Ghostwise