Duff McKagan Quotes

The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

The most terrible things end, at last.

I like a character that goes on a journey. A character that has had it all, lost it all, and is trying to get back to just being OK. I love the agony of defeat just as much as I love the thrill of victory.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

My life was pretty rough.

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

For feel-good fiction to work, there has to be an element of darkness.

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

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

'Ten Years Later' is about the journey six extraordinary people take with time. Each has experienced a game-changing event - perhaps a life-threatening illness or a catastrophic personal loss.

Sometimes you have to go through the wilderness before you get to the Promised Land.

Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.

Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.

Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.

My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.

Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

Life is about surviving loss.

As we wander, grieving, in yet another dark moment, amid our pain we must struggle to remember the redemptive power of love and hope.

A historic defeat cannot bow our heads forever.