Neil Simon Quotes

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

The ups and downs are part of what has made you.

Life is a bunch of ups and downs. It's how you handle it.

Life's been a rollercoaster for me, but I think we can all agree on enduring ups and downs. I've yet to meet a person who hasn't gone through something major in their life.

I've been through a lot; that I have.

I'm no stranger to pain. It's what made me.

Life is all about how things rough up against you and how you see them and the vantage point you have from them.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

No one's a virgin, life screws us all!

I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.