Darren Aronofsky Quotes

So to really be able to dive into what does it mean to be broken by an experience, and I developed it just through research and talking and understanding the truth of what it means to lose everything.

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

Everybody faces pain. Everybody has trauma.

Sometimes you almost have to laugh to keep from crying to deal with the pain associated with the 'hood.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.

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.

When my family fell apart, it was such a troubled part of my life... I think I could understand what I was going through, but I didn't have the vocabulary for it.

I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.

It takes an extraordinary toll on me to re-live my experiences, the horrors of my past and the pain I had to endure. And yet, I believe remembering is the only way to promote healing, to promote awareness and accountability.

The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. 'Carnivale' required that of me, and it was really hard.

Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies?

As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.

I look at something like 'Short Term 12,' and that character has a lot of pain, and I wouldn't have known how to portray that if I hadn't experienced pain myself.

Human suffering is not a competitive sport.

I have suffered most of the things I write about - or my friends have.

There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.

I haven't been in the military, but I've known my share of pain. It allows me to sit with someone who's struggling and not be afraid.

When we're suffering, we kind of have this notion that we kind of should stop living and we should just focus on his how to 'get over it,' how to just 'get to the other side.'

Trauma and pain and suffering can be the very thing that dislodges a person from themselves both in awful ways and larger ways that force one to reckon with one's own life.

I go through a lot of painful things. There are sessions when I will be on my back afterwards, crawling.

My mom got shot. My dad got shot. Some of the craziest stuff. All that happened to me.

I had a motorcycle accident, and I had my garage burn down with most of my vehicles. And I've had really bad relationships that I've been in and out of. They've left their mark.

I'm not in the business of suffering.