But her heart was hurting her with its violence.

Don't be hurt by me.""I can't help being hurt —

How easily one is hurt. Or is it only I who am so stupidly vulnerable.

She had loved him, she thought now, because, just at that time, she had had to have something else, someone else, to love, a private place for wounded love to go. But that had been, as she had then suspected and now knew, a device, a dream.

He was capable of hurting Ludens even to the point sometimes of deliberate malice.

Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.