Tobin Bell 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.

The reward of suffering is experience.

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.

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.

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

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

I became an adult in an extreme way. I was recently sorting some old photographs and I found another.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

There is nothing like a good bit of pain for taking the conceit out of one.

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.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

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

The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.

No one's a virgin, life screws us all!

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.

At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

Watching your children growing up makes you aware of time passing. You think, 'Oh, God, look at them now! He won't be like this for much longer.'

I used to love getting older.

I feel like you're only young once.

When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes.