Bernard Tschumi Quotes

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

I have been drawn to stories that are attempting to turn suffering into beauty.

I had injuries, but I didn't get them on purpose.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

I'm a fast healer. I was on the air a week after I got shot.

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 got hurt when I was 19. They thought I broke my neck. I couldn't move my hands or feet, and I had a very bad experience.

Any athlete will tell you that it's the most difficult thing in the world being injured.

There's no way I can go back and uninjure myself.

Since the attack I have undergone over 250 operations to improve my physical functioning.

So many people have been abused. It's not rare; it's a very common human experience, and we survive.

If you get a big injury, it is not easy at all to deal with it.

From out of pain, beauty.

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain, and you can't quite get there, that's when you're better.

Countless hours of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right arm. It's fractional progress, and it took a long time, but my arm moves when I tell it to.

Everyone gets hurt, but I've probably had the most injuries.

I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.

I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.

When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.

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.

I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.

Injuries are nothing to be ashamed about.