Cass McCombs Quotes

The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

Of course I get hurt.

Once you're dead, your worries are over.

I think that it's okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn't about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

It's OK to get your feelings hurt.

She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone -- She never deemed -- she hurt -- That -- is not Steel's Affair -- A vulgar grimace in the Flesh -- How ill the Creatures bear -- To Ache is human -- not polite -- The Film upon the eye Mortality's old Custom -- Just locking up -- to Die.

He who laughs last laughs the laughiest.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

Every breath, every heartbeat, was one less until maybe things stopped hurting this much.

With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.

I wonder if it's possible to start a new relationship without hurting someone else.

It is said that in death, all things become clear.

I can tell you my feelings were hurt.

I've learned that hurting you feels infinitely worse than being hurt myself.

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

Death is a supple suitor, that wins at last. It is a stealthy wooing; conducted first by pallid innuendos and dim approach, but brave at last with bugles.

It hurt to even bump into him.

Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you. . . . But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces.

Her heart's too hurt...you frightened her. And she's such a straight lady--she sees shame where some of us just see people.

Why dost thou shrink from my approach, O Man? Why dost thou ever flee in fear, and cling To my false rival, Life? I do but bring Thee rest and calm. Then wherefore dost thou ban And curse me? Since the forming of God's plan I have not hurt or harmed a mortal thing, I have bestowed sweet balm for every sting, And peace eternal for earth's stormy span.

You can only really really hurt the ones that you really really love.

Does it hurt?" The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. "Dying? Not at all," said Sirius. "Quicker and easier than falling asleep.

What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.

I talk to friends who get their feelings hurt when they read Twitter mentions. I have an amazing solution - don't read Twitter mentions.