Tracey Emin Quotes

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

Nothing could have survived our life.

Change is never easy.

Change is a process which has to be managed.

In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.

People learned to live with the most unimaginable things.

All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.

You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

Change is always a little bit strange.

Everything changes and, somewhere along the line, I'm changing with it.

Change is not an event, it's a process.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.

This show has shown me how to throw a punch. But watching my future sister-in-law go through breast cancer has also shown me how to take one.

Change is such hard work.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

When everything in a person's life is gone, ripped-out gone, it's not that you stay empty for so long, so you replace it with something else very quickly.