Frank Iero Quotes

I try not to take things too personally, because most of the time, people aren't even thinking about anyone else but themselves.

This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing.

In my little world, I'm very protected 'cause I'm treated like the idiot I am by my buddies. But, a little bit outside that world, people sometimes expect heavy things from me. For a little time, I tried to appease and not disappoint people but in the end you're just going to kill yourself and fail if you're trying to give more than you are.

By remembering that I don't know sadness or pain like the people do in the camp and to be sad will not help them.

When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone else.... As a tragicee and future divorcee, you'll also find that people will question you on the biggest decisions you've ever made in your life as though you hadn't thought about them at all before – as though, through their twenty questions and dubious faces, they're going to shine light on something that you missed the hundredth time around during your darkest hours.

People can be cruel, but that doesn't mean you have to take it home, wrap yourself up in it and wear it.

I get tired too, just like everybody else. Sometimes I tell people that, but all I get is people saying that being vulnerable and weak is just not like me. I rarely get the response of emotional support I want. But sometimes I need it.

I have some regrets that I might have hurt men in my life. But they can take care of themselves.

What helps me when someone puts me down or aims to offend me is to not take what they say personally. I try my best to not internalize their comments.

You have to learn how to care about people without taking on all of their problems.

We can be of little service to our fellows until we become disillusioned without being embittered.

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.

Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was overwhelmed at times by a profound sadness that even his own resilient temperament could not dispel.

So you should remember that, when you're thinking about what other people can deal with. Maybe it's not so bad.

That's something I have to work on: to separate what really matters, to conserve energy by not worrying about what other people think. When I walk through that door, it's about home. If I didn't do that, I'd become consumed by one thing only and damage the people who love me. And it would damage the work.

When you're the strong one, people don't give you permission to hurt.

That is the simple secret. Always take your heart to work.

We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.

I'm still aspiring to be a better and better person, but I think that disappointments have made me gentler with other people and their disappointments, the stuff that they have to carry around and endure.

I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

Do you sometimes feel that you just can't take one more thing? Even in your misery, be mindful that the very weight of your burdens and the intensity going to use in your life to trigger an experience of personal revival.

The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since I'm the person going in to be slaughtered, this is somewhat annoying.

When you try to help people become a better person, you're going to have to find out what's really going in their world.

I know it's not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you're not the only one with troubles.