Robert Quillen Quotes

If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.

People play with pain all the time.

It's life, so you're a constant evolution of tragedies and achievements and ups and downs. You can probably get a little bit more immune to things, but whatever is the most amount of pain you feel at any given moment feels like the most amount of pain you'll ever feel.

One can bear anything of which one is able to conceive.

There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don't like who we are.

The only person I ever hurt was myself and even that I did to the minimum. If you can do that and you're still functioning, you're the luckiest person in the world.

Both hurting and happiness make me feel more alive, but as I get older it seems that hurting's the low hanging fruit. So I pick it.

I learned certain exercises to help me cope, to get myself in tip-top mental shape to deal with auditions and rejection.

I think there are things that we can all do to build resilience in ourselves, but also to build resilience in each other.

You have to laugh through hard things, right? How else do you cope?

It's like looking at all the students and wondering who's had their heart broken that day, and how they are able to cope with having three quizzes and a book report on top of that.

Everybody has seen that I make mistakes. Every single album I have ever made is about love. But I am not going to give up. I have to look at what I do wrong. I rush in, I get swept up, I ignore the signs. But so many of us are guilty of these things. Each time it goes wrong, it's hard. I get really hurt but I have to let myself go: 'What did I do? What can I learn?' And as hard and as hurtful as things get, I want to believe I will be able to go one step higher. I've got to hope that if I keep going I will eventually get it right.

...there are only some many times you can utter "It does not hurt" before it begins to hurt even more than the hurt.

At the end of the day, anything I think I'm sacrificing I'm just giving up because it makes me feel better.

If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.

You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

Don't care about all the pain in front of me, cause I'm just trying to be happy.

I warn people, your 40s will require massive amounts of humor and humility.

Self-destruction is the effect of cowardice in the highest extreme.

I handle emotional pain by trying to understand that it's going to be painful and to allow for it instead of fighting it. Doesn't make it any easier, though.

Suppressing your hurts is like not tending to a bullet wound. Eventually you will bleed out. Dont numb pain, express it.

Every man that has felt pain knows how little all other comforts can gladden him to whom health is denied. Yet who is there does not sometimes hazard it for the enjoyment of an hour?

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.

No one can hurt me - that's my job.