Trevor Noah Quotes

I need to be someone who didn't break because of what I've been through.

We were built to fall apart and fall back together.

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

A question I often get is, "How do you maintain your sanity with so much happening all around you?" I think I developed a certain mental toughness that is required in the business. You have to have a thick skin and a brass bottom, because you're going to kicked a lot.

People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Human beings have enormous resilience.

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

I think I'm blessed with a pretty tough psyche.

Strength doesn't mean an absence of pain.

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.

You have to remember, when someone hurts you, that you are so much more than what they took from you.

I had to grow a very thick skin very fast. I think that's where the GC came about.

My natural reaction is to smile through things.

Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright, that’s fearless too.

Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

Strength doesn't necessarily come from resisting fear, weakness, or any other feeling and overcoming it. Strength comes from looking at those things straight on--and accepting them as they really are.

And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain - the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending wracking waves of hurt through my limbs and head - but it was manageable. I could live through it. I didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I'd grown strong enough to bear it.

This time her heart would not break, even though it would hurt and hurt for a long time to come. Perhaps for the rest of her life. But it would not break. She had the strength to go on alone.

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

Love is possible. Life is going to decide. Don't lose it, it's a treasure. It's going to be painful; it's going to be an adventure, a roller coaster. Life is a roller coaster and it gets worse when you get old. Contrary to what you think, that it gets better when you know more - no, the more you know the more painful it is. You've been hurt. You arrive with a million scars and your armor is not thick. The more you age, the more you're fragile. But do it anyway. Go for it. Otherwise it means death.

Intensity makes you stronger. Emotionalism makes you weaker.

There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn't always come from a knife or a willingness to fight. Sometimes it came from endurance, where the well ran deep and quiet. Sometimes it came from compassion and forgiveness.