Brian Azzarello Quotes

It was only as I wrote about it that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.

When you're no longer ill, and everyone's gotten over the fact that you've had cancer, that core of steel doesn't go away, and then I had to find other channels for it.

I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.

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.

In life, when what has happened happens to you, you don't digest it.

I'm the same person. I got a grenade thrown at me. Situation turned out how it did. Now I'm just trying to do good things.

Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.

Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.' 'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory in the next.

Find the meaning behind whatever it is you're going through because everybody's got something.

I have fallen short in my life, but my faith has always brought me home.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

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

Oprah is wildly successful, and she's a brilliant businesswoman. She's also somebody who's overcome a ton of demons in her own life, and that's really what shaped her. I think the same could be said for me.

I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.

I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

I'm a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I've been through my dark times in my life to where I wasn't walking the walk and talking the talk, or I may have been talking the talk, but I wasn't walking the walk.