Arthur Golden Quotes

I've been through so much stuff that I hope even my enemies wouldn't have to go through.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

Pain is one of the unavoidable facts of life. We Bidens have had our share. We don't pretend otherwise. And we don't pretend that we are different from families all over America that have to face the loss of loved ones or have to deal with the fallout of divorces.

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.

Beauty that arose out of pain.

Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.

What hurts us is what heals us.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.

Everybody faces pain. Everybody has trauma.

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

I've been through worst, seen worst.

My great aunt raised me for about four or five years. Something I took from her was a quote: 'Fear of suffering is far worse than suffering itself.' I actually have that tattooed on the back of my arm.

I get why we don't want to be in pain, but there's something very essential about what happens when we're in pain and some of the growth that can come from it if we stare at it straight in the face.

People need to know what I've gone through.

I'm from Colombia, and we've been through a lot of hard situations.

I broke my back, I broke my ankle. I didn't cry then.

I had no idea that what I thought was my low wasn't really my low. That's what a lot of people think - then life reminds them, 'No, there's lower.'

Everyone has a cross to bear. Sometimes I have to take the splinters out of my shoulders.

I have been through so much.