Markus Zusak Quotes

It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

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.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

I shake my head, but I can’t change this. I can only bear the scars, as I have always done, as I ever do.

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.

This iron world bungs down the stoutest hearts to lowest state; for misery doth bravest minds abate.

To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.

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

You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.

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

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

You can and you must expect suffering.

I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.

Andy [Hallett] was a real man - you can tell an adult by how they deal with pain or adversity. Andy's eyeballs gave him searing pain all day every day because of the contacts they used. He was every moment a gentlemen; laughing and joking, wiping the tears from his eyes.

Every driven person comes from a mountain of pain they wish to keep hidden.