Gary Coleman Quotes

I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.

I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That'll always outweigh the good times.

The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

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.

A loss is something tough.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

I know things are unbearable but in spite of that we have to bear them.

The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you?

As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.

Nakedness, hunger, distress of all kinds, death itself have been cheerfully suffered, when the heart was right. It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

I was homeless. I lived in a car for a couple of years. That was the worst. But nothing was worse than when I was 40 and my mom passed away. My mother was the best person I ever knew. Those were the two lowest points.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage.

Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.

I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

Consider anything, only don’t cry!

The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.

Save your tears, you've got years.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, Harry, but battle on.

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light bill and I couldn't pay my rent and I really had the blues. But today I can pay my rent and I can pay the light bill and I still got the blues. So I must been born with 'em... That's my religion - the blues is my religion.

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.