Aaron Dessner Quotes

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.

Some things we must pass over in silence.

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

Growing up, I never expressed myself to nobody. I never told nobody when something was wrong.

Whether by my own volition or otherwise, I was given a year-and-a-half break after Dad passed. It was kind of like an elephant in the room, and everyone was giving me space, whether I wanted it or not.

I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war story is a black space. On the one side is before and on the other side is after, and what is inside belongs only to the dead.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

Because all my life I've learned to suffer in silence - Athena

We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. We are those who, through prevarication, skill or luck, never touched bottom. Those who have, and who have seen the face of the Gorgon, did not return, or returned wordless.

Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it.

If you are able to explain suffering, a man once told him, you weren't really there.

There is no limit to suffering.

Lately we have had many losses.

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion.

I've crossed lines of word and wire and both have cut me deep. I've been frozen out and I've been on fire, and the tears are mine to weep.

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

Silence in times of suffering is the best.

My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Growing up, my family was an enemy of the state. I have experienced more disappointment than joy, much more sad stories or desperate conditions.

O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check, Richer than doing nothing for a robe, Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk: Such pain the cap of him that makes him fine Yet keeps his book uncrossed.