Jeri Ryan Quotes

I've been beat up pretty badly. Pretty badly. Yet at the end of the day, everyone says I'm doing a pretty good job.

I did not know that for the things that unhorse you, for the things that wreck you, for the things that toy with your internal tide - against those things, there is no conventional guard.

Sometimes I feel that my job on earth is to put Julie White through horrible things, watch her writhe and then recover.

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

The punches that don't knock you out are the ones you feel the most.

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

The heart must be beaten or bruised, and then the sweet scent will come out.

The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

My biggest success is getting over the things that have tried to destroy and take me out of this life. Those are my biggest successes. It has nothing to do with work.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

'A Child Called It' was a story about resilience, it was never about boo hoo hoo, it was about a kid that didn't quit.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.

My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.