Reggie Jackson Quotes

The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings.

There was a lot of turmoil in my family.

1967 was the bleakest, darkest, most emotional period of my life.

I have to say that those nine years were full of turmoil and drama and trauma to me, in actual fact.

She was owner and captive, both, of a bitterly divided heart.

You're tearing me apart!

At fourteen you don't need sickness or death for tragedy.

In short: I felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way.

I'm alright, nobody worry about me. Why you gotta gimme a fight? Can't you just let it be.

The worst moment from all of this was driving from that doctor's office, to tell my wife that I was HIV positive.

It's funny --- sometimes the strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can't really be there for the people they love. I've felt it myself.

Pain is the most individualized thing on earth. It is true that it is the great common bond as well, but that realization only comes when it is over. To suffer is to be alone. To watch another suffer is to know the barrier that shuts each of us away by himself Only individuals can suffer.

Ralston stiffened at the reference to the stupid wager that caused so much pain and unhappiness. He ignored Oxford's proffered hand, and instead met the baron's concerned gaze, and said, "Keep the money. I have her. She's all I want.

Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy.

It's terrifying to see someone inside of whom a vital spring seems to have been broken. It's particularly terrifying to see him in your mirror.

I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

I’m not a romantic, I’m a half-wit. Only stupid people would think I’m smart. I’m not something anyone should know. I’m a lunatic wandering around for scraps, I’m like every single miserable moron I’ve scorned and pretended I didn’t recognize. I’m all of them, every last ugly thing in a bad last-minute costume. I’m not different, not at all, not different from any other speck of a thing. I’m a blemished blemish, a ruined ruin, a stained wreck so failed I can’t see what I used to be.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

Sentences in which I have tried for a certain light tone -- many of those have to do with events, upheavals, destructions that caused me to weep like a child.

A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.

A divorce is like a controlled explosion. Everyone on the outside is OK.

No” Daniel cried “ No, no, no” Luce’s heart ached as he tore at his hair, spun in circle and let his wings bloom out to their full size.

It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.

The worst is knowing I can't tell anybody what's happening -or what's happened- to me. Not even my mom.