Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

It's not easy to adapt to losing a lot.

People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.

When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

If you disaggregate, things fall apart.

when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and our strengths, as we lose all the choices we once had.

Certain stories we carry with us, events in our life, they define who we are. It's not a matter of getting over anything; we have to make the best of it.

Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Everything's completely different, and it's been hard. Fortunately, I have a lot of wonderful people around me, and I think I'm handling things pretty well.

I do a lot of lectures on survival. I always say you can't change what happened, so have a little wallow, feel very sorry for yourself, and then get up and move forward. You can't change what happened.

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

A long-term crisis, after a certain point, no longer seems like a crisis. It seems like the way things are.

Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

Countries and individuals do not change unless they undergo a trauma.

Some people can accept the changes in life in a mature way but for most others, it is never easy.

Part of the game is moving on. And you do.

I've learnt that if you can't get rid of something, you have to find a way to live with it.

You don't ever really wanna be let go from a job, but like anything that happens in life, you gotta make the best of your situation.