Derrick Lewis Quotes

I've known struggle.

I've been through worst, seen worst.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

I have been through so much.

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

I've had really hard struggles in my life.

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

I have lived through very difficult times.

Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

Everything's been a struggle for me.

My life is a struggle.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

I've gone through hell and back.

It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

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

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.