Oscar Wilde Quotes

No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity...

It's never easy to watch. It's never great to see your friend or teammate put himself through hell.

Pain - physical, emotional and spiritual pain - is more than just a condition that needs to be silenced, numbed or "fixed." Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it. When we don't listen, our understanding of the world gets more and more distorted, and we become capable of doing things we very often regret.

For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Many people experience Gethsemane moments.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

I bleed like nobody else.

I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.

Our family has gone through a very difficult time. My husband and I have taken the brunt of it. I've never known what it truly felt like to be so sad and desperate inside.

Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

We are all going to have to see pain if we are going to bring about change.

... pain doesn't listen to reason. It has its own reason, which is not reasonable.

Grief, for me, is a moment-to-moment experience.

I've been thinking about my life, my loss of friends, relationships, opportunities, money, my values. There's also the loss of relationship with my son and my daughter, who I've only met once. All that loss - I just got so good at blocking it out.

Nobody knows the pain I've been through.