Amy Tan Quotes

I've certainly experienced physical pain in my life.

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

I've dealt with a lot of physical pain, with a lot of emotional pain; anybody's who's ever been an alcoholic has handled both of those in extreme.

It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

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.

Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it.

You aren’t old enough to have such regrets.” “Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.

When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.

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

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

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.

The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.

It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

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.

There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.

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

I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-opening and harrowing experience.

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever.

When I was young I lost everything.

My head was forced back and a tube jammed down my nose. It was the most awful torture. I groaned with pain and I coughed and gulped the tube up and would not let it pass down my throat. Then they tried the other nostril and they found that was smaller still and slightly deformed, l suppose from constant hay-fever. The new doctor said it was impossible to get the tube down that one so they jammed it down again through the other and I wondered if the pain was as bad as child-birth. I just had strength and will enough to vomit it up again and I could see tears in the wardresses' eyes.