William Cowper Quotes

Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

I bleed like nobody else.

I cry sometimes. I get very upset.

There is hurt that cannot be fixed by band aids or poetrybecause no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.

I think grief and fear are going to come to him suddenly. They'll be undiluted and words won't work. We're all going to get hit and won't know how to hit back. I wish I knew the answers, how to help myself and the people who will hurt all around me.

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people.

Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

Very slowly he turned his head back to look at Shmuel, who wasn't crying anymore, merely staring at the floor and looking as if he was trying to convince his soul not to live inside his tiny body anymore, but to slip away and sail to the door and rise up into the sky, gliding through the clouds until it was very far away.'' -The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Millions of people have decided not to be sensitive. They have grown thick skins around themselves just to avoid being hurt by anybody. But it is at great cost. Nobody can hurt them, but nobody can make them happy either.

Even if your heart is broken and attacking you, you're still not better off without it.

God, I felt like hell tonight, tears of rage I cannot fight.

In the face of pain there are no heroes.

A deep distress has humanised my soul.

Everybody hurts sometimes Everybody cries

I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.

I had the hardest time not crying, the entire time that I was filming.

There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

We can't protect ourselves from pain and heartache.

Never underestimate what it takes to watch someone you love in pain.

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

That's what I can't stand. I know I'll bounce back, and that's what I can't stand.

How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.