Dustin Poirier Quotes

Experience is the extract of suffering.

When you're in a fight, and you get hit, it hurts. And as you get older, you begin to take on the aches and the bruises of doing that.

I've been through a lot of stuff.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

I've gone through hell and back.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Pain is the root of knowledge.

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

I've been through a lot of struggles.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

I've been fighting since I was 15. I know what war is.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

People need to know what I've gone through.

Pain is mandatory for all of us. It's what teaches us. Suffering is what's optional. That's what happens when we try to skip over the pain.

I've seen a great deal of hardship in my life.

I have lived through very difficult times.

Pain is a teacher from whom we can learn much.

We learn from the things we suffer.

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

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

My life was pretty rough.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.