Lindsey Haun Quotes

Life is about surviving loss.

We salvage the bones of our lives every day, through small tragedies and big tragedies.

My entire tenth grade year, my dad was in a coma. That changes a person. It changes a kid. It makes you ridiculously independent.

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

Tragedy makes you grow up.

I've had a lot of big impacts before the music as far as deaths and tragedies and experiences in my life.

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.

My brother dying changed me. I didn't realize how strong I was until I lost my brother.

Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it.

I survived, but it's not a happy ending.

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.

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

When I was 17 years old, I put out an album while my mother was dying of cancer. That right there alone is a struggle. That's hard. That's tough for anybody.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

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

The first time my father woke me up in the middle of the night to tell me he was going to die, I think I was eight. He brought out all his papers and explained to me what to do with his body and who to call and how to take care of things. You either learn how to survive, or you fall to pieces. I'm pretty good at surviving.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

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.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was staggering.

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them, but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain, more and more loss and it makes you more fragile.

From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.