Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

The big relationships you make in your life are with those that you love and if things do go wrong then it's a source of great pain and that lasts.

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at how much suffering there was and at how certain bad situations were made worse by our decisions.

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

Loss is something that I think is ultimately the number one struggle for humans.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

I've had a lot of big impacts before the music as far as deaths and tragedies and experiences in my life.

Pain is one of the unavoidable facts of life. We Bidens have had our share. We don't pretend otherwise. And we don't pretend that we are different from families all over America that have to face the loss of loved ones or have to deal with the fallout of divorces.

the human heart clings - even to its pain.

...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.

I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.

it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

I maintain that all sorrow comes from love of those things of which loss deprives me.

And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.

Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

And even though he felt pitiful and ridiculous, he didn't want it to end, because he knew the absence of her would hurt more than any breakup ever could.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it.

Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.

In life, loss is inevitable. Everyone knows this, yet in the core of most people it remains deeply denied - 'This should not happen to me.' It is for this reason that loss is the most difficult challenge one has to face as a human being.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.