Ernie Banks Quotes

I've always had some level of having to be independent outside of music because the music wasn't a smooth ride. We lost a lot in the mix: Everybody that I came in the music game with - friends I brought in with me - are all doing 10-34 years in jail. That's why if you want to get the real, you gotta get it from me.

I close my eyes. An image flashes—emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City; believing, in that moment, that we had escaped the worst, that life would begin again for us. Instead life has only grown harder.

Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?

I hate telling that story to people who've been struggling for years.

Losing is tough.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

I've had lots of ups and downs. I've had situations where I've gone against the rules, and I've lost everything.

I know some people that have gone through serious struggles. People that were close to me, and I've seen some terrible things about people who lose it. So I think that type of pain is something that's human and that, actually, can help us look at ourselves a little bit.

I've been on the end of losing a fight, and there's a piece of my heart that has compassion towards that because I know how it feels.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.

The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.

I've struggled just as much as anyone else.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

The regrets I have are strong enough that I wouldn't share 'em. I think that you can't live without suffering some.

I was doing hard personally and did some things I probably shouldn't have done. We've all got our cross to bear.

A loss is something tough.

I know how it feels to lose.

I'm not in the business of suffering.

I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.

I've had my share of losing.

I've been through hell. It's hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden - was it a lie? You're struggling because it wasn't real. But I survived. It was hard, but it didn't kill me.

I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain.

No Victory Without Suffering

Knowing cats, a lifetime of cats, what is left is a sediment of sorrow quite different from that due to humans: compounded of pain for their helplessness, of guilt on behalf of us all.