James Frey Quotes

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

I've had to walk through a lot of my tears.

A loss is something tough.

I know life is hard, I think everyone knows that in their hearts, but why dos it have to be cruel, as well? Why does it have to bite?

Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don't mean that you can't also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

Everybody has their burdens, their grief that they carry with them.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

Life is really hard for some people.

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

When I was young I lost everything.

Everybody faces pain. Everybody has trauma.

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

Loss is something that I think is ultimately the number one struggle for humans.

I had a very hard life in Kazakhstan.

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

Every loss, every defeat is tough in its own way.

I think, losses, I think they teach you the most, but it's tough. I'm not gonna lie. It sucks. It's terrible. You can't sleep for two days.

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.

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

No Victory Without Suffering