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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.

So to really be able to dive into what does it mean to be broken by an experience, and I developed it just through research and talking and understanding the truth of what it means to lose everything.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.

I've had a tremendous problem with depression in my life. I'd rather not talk about it, because it's over. But depression is real.

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.

Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

Everybody faces pain. Everybody has trauma.

I'd had to cope with a lot of death and illness in my family from a young age, and that maybe gave me a bleak outlook on the world.

My mom got shot. My dad got shot. Some of the craziest stuff. All that happened to me.

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.

When I admitted to myself I was ill, it was tough to accept. I didn't want my family to worry about me.

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'

I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.

I thought about dying whenever I got bad news about other people.

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.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Depression is a feeling without a cause. Mourning has a cause.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.