Harry Crews Quotes

Sometimes when really terrible things happen, something beautiful emerges out of it.

I am here today as an example to all that have gone through a personal hell or are going through it right now, whatever that hell might be for you, that you can become whole again. In fact, you can become stronger than you ever thought possible.

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.

Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

The darkest experiences in a human being's life allow that person to either go deeper and stay depressed or get the strength to stand up stronger than ever, and that's my case.

We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

As you wrestle with life... You're going to come out on the other end healed... I've fallen short sometimes, and I've risen pretty high a few times.

Real pain hurts so bad. When you've gone through something and you've overcome it, you're able to heal other people.

The story of getting better can be just as compelling as the story of falling apart.

It took me a long time to write again because Katrina destroyed the home I loved, and that robbed me of hope.

I always tell my story because I want others who have felt broken to know they can make it.

If you're going through something, just know that you're gonna come out on the other side. You're going through it - you're not stuck there forever.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

Flowers grow out of dark moments.

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

I just keep praying for Joan to get her power back. To resolve her problems and rise to the top. To fight back!

The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing.

The most terrible things end, at last.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

The further away we got from 9/11, the more I wanted to find some way to recover. I wanted to talk about the more anonymous corners of the city, because I think it's very important that not all of that anger was turned to revenge.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.