Jason Reynolds Quotes

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music.

To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.

I was in so much emotional pain as a young girl that whatever distracted me from how I felt about myself was fine by me.

It's been my experience with damaged people: they don't wake up every day and wallow in the bad things that have happened to them.

With grief, you know, the only way to get through it is through it.

She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness.

I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.

Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.

I don't deal with death very well. My brother, John Candy, my dad, my mom, Brandon Tartikoff just a couple of weeks ago. I mean, you lose a lot of people in your life, and that's one thing I am constantly working on - pain management.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

When I'm photographing, I think - like any rescue worker who deals with tragedy - you have to have some protective barrier around your heart so you can do your job. You tend to have a delayed reaction to things. I feel things more deeply after I put the camera down.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

I want pills called September 10. You take one and your mind feels like the 11th never happened.

I think we all have mechanisms that we use, each of us individually, to deal with pain that we've had or just dealing with life or whatever. Everyone's story is different, but we all have some kind of mechanism that we use to deal with stuff, that we create pretty young.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.

I try to cope by doing what I do, what I find purpose and joy in. For me, that has been writing and playing ball. It doesn't make the pain go away, but what else can I do?

There's an incredible amount of pain involved in being a human, but this humorous stuff is essential in overcoming it.

What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.

When we have emotional pain in our lives, we are going to seek to relieve that pain in some way.

Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.

One day at a time. You rise, you eat, you bathe, and you talk to the few people you can tolerate while feeling so wretched. Over time, it hurts a little less. Then a little less. And so on...Until one morning, you will awake and realize the pain is only a memory. It will always be with you, but it will eventually lack the power to cripple you.

I try to get through emotional pain and not go around it, it always ends sooner that way. I also use chocolate.