Yehuda Amichai Quotes

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength

Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.

Consider anything, only don’t cry!

Save your tears, you've got years.

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.

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.

Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

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.

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

I've cried my eyes out and wanted to end it all before. I hope everybody's gone that far, because it makes life rich.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.

There are those who suffer and grow strong; there are those who suffer and grow weak. This mystery of pain is still for me the saddest of earth's disabilities.

There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

My main inspirations are the people around me, heartbreaks, frustration and everything that makes you feel stronger than you should.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.

Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

My first big heartbreak proved to me that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.