Jack London Quotes

In the end it seems we're just toys,easy to break and hard to mend

Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

When a gust of wind hits a broken bone, you feel it.

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them, but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain, more and more loss and it makes you more fragile.

There is hurt that cannot be fixed by band aids or poetrybecause no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.

Love is possible. Life is going to decide. Don't lose it, it's a treasure. It's going to be painful; it's going to be an adventure, a roller coaster. Life is a roller coaster and it gets worse when you get old. Contrary to what you think, that it gets better when you know more - no, the more you know the more painful it is. You've been hurt. You arrive with a million scars and your armor is not thick. The more you age, the more you're fragile. But do it anyway. Go for it. Otherwise it means death.

There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.

Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.

There is no growth if there is no change. There is no change if there is no loss. There is no loss if there is no pain.

Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak.

There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.

It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.

Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Say you’re running and you think, ‘Man, this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The ‘hurt’ part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand anymore is up to the runner himself.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

I can handle pain.

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

When someone gets sick, it is easy to get walked all over, walk all over people, and be so beat down you agree to things you would never normally agree to.