Eric Stoltz Quotes

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

I have the experience of age and suffering.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them, but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain, more and more loss and it makes you more fragile.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

No man grows wise but he have his share of winters.

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

I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has had many people to love.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

I have led an unusual life. I have buried a father killed at age 50 and two brothers killed in the prime of their lives. I raised my children as a single mother when my husband was arrested and held for eight years without a conviction - a hostage to my political career.