Pete Doherty Quotes

People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.

I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

When things begin to go negative, sometimes we just have to cover our ears and not let such circumstances influence us.

I basically built myself up and I'm not about to let somebody else tear me down.

I conditioned myself many years ago that nobody could hurt me.

She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

You get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you.

I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

You are free to smile in the midst of massive tests and challenges, knowing that you have chosen to play this game, and that you have dominion over all the appearances of earth.

When people are happy they have a reserve upon which to draw, whereas she was like a wheel without a tyre

The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed.

In my personal life I wasn't someone who cried easily, someone who was extremely vulnerable, you know, in that way that's constantly seeking out affirmation from other people. I've always been much more the person who took care of everyone else.

The wonder to me is not that she made it through at all but that she made it through so relatively intact, so vibrant. So free of bitterness and so empty of resentment.

He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.

The more you feel, the stronger you are.

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.

What I got was not so much gifts and whishes come trues but a feeling of peace. I got peace itself, actually. And when you have peace, you can be strong; and when you are strong, you can get through what you have to get through, and not with exhaustion and frown marks and slumped shoulders but with relative happiness, and humor, and sometimes even gaiety.

If you're strong enough on the inside, you can handle anything that comes at you on the outside.

My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.

But Christina and I are not people who cry together; we're people who fight together. SO I hold my tears in.

You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.

It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armor proof against painful emotions,--nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer.

Always seek less turbulent skies. Hurt. Fly above it. Betrayal. Fly above it. Anger. Fly above it. You are the one who is flying the plane.