R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

Pain isn't always the enemy.

Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.

They have seen but half the universe who never have been shown the house of pain.

There is no such thing in life as no pain and no disappointment.

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

You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.

I'm here instead of having shoulder surgery. But I'm not sure which is more painful.

Everyone gets hurt, but I've probably had the most injuries.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

I thought 'Game of Thrones' had this challenge in filming, and it's one of those things you think, 'It can't get worse than this,' because it's really cold, and you're in pain, and it's miserable.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.