Marianne Faithfull Quotes

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

Tragedy makes you grow up.

I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

I haven't always acted or reacted in a way that made me proud, but I didn't make that same mistake twice, and I think that's what I love about adversity is that it always reminds me of what's really valuable in life.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

I was quite fearless as a kid. But I've had to realize I'm not invincible. That's what breaking your back does. It makes you grow up and reassess life.

I think everybody has ups and downs in their lives. We learn from the biggest disappointments, right? You learn how to be humble to yourself and to be humble to others.

Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me. All of those things brought me to where I am. Without those things, I couldn't be who I am, I wouldn't be here.

And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me.

The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry.

I wanted to show my maturity. The criticism I got made me grow up. It motivated me.

I'm grateful for every opportunity. I learned the hard way.

I went through a lot, but as I went through it, I learned from the situations.

Hargrave made me mature. It made me grow up, and I needed that.

If I take back any of the bumps, bruises or scrapes I've been through. I wouldn't be the same person.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

If I can give myself credit for anything, it's that I do try to learn from the bad. I've never felt so sure that I'm in the right place doing what I'm supposed to be doing as I am right now.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.