Dana Reeve Quotes

A drunk truck driver ran over me. I was in a Volkswagen. It was horrible. It sounds like a cliche, but anything that doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I give a lot of credit to my dad, who was a very strong guy.

When you go through a tragedy with someone, the bond is stronger.

We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

My inner strength comes from my friends. I have a very close group of friends and family, and we all help each other through our dark times.

Humor is not a sign of weakness. In fact, humor can be your greatest asset in the face of tragedy.

We all need friends, and friends are there to hold you up when nothing else can.

It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one.

My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me.

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

My dad is a really funny guy, and we would make jokes about my leukemia. When my friends would come over, we would joke about it, too.

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.

I think whenever any kind of hardship or tragedy comes along, it usually pulls a family closer together or, at least, hopefully.

We salvage the bones of our lives every day, through small tragedies and big tragedies.

Some families can experience terrible tragedy and deal with it, and others not. I find those things fascinating.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.