Mike Krzyzewski Quotes

There is no growth if there is no change. There is no change if there is no loss. There is no loss if there is no pain.

Some things you just don't get over.

Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.

There is hurt that cannot be fixed by band aids or poetrybecause no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.

And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain - the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending wracking waves of hurt through my limbs and head - but it was manageable. I could live through it. I didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I'd grown strong enough to bear it.

I don't care what you do to me, but I don't want you to hurt me. I've had enough hurt already in my life. More than enough. Now I want to be happy.

One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

He didn't want to remember anymore. remembering only hurt him... everytime.

Well, any love makes us vulnerable. Whatever we love will give the gift of pain somewhere along the road. But who would live sealed in spiritual cellophane just to keep from ever being hurt? There are a few people like that. I'm sorry for them. I think they are as good as dead.

The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.

No more tears now; I will think about revenge.

Let him tell us he's never been hurt, but that's the definition of getting hurt.

There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.

It's our memories that make us who we are. Without them, we're nothing. If that means we have to hurt sometimes, it's worth it.

Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.

I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.

The first cut is the deepest.

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

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

One of the things that happens to everyone who is grief-stricken, who has lost someone, is there comes a time when everyone else just wants you to get over it, but of course you don't get over it. You get stronger; you try and live on; you endure; you change; but you don't get over it. You carry it with you.

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

Behind every crime is a story of sadness.

Pain is love.