Anne Perry Quotes

For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.

One day at a time. You rise, you eat, you bathe, and you talk to the few people you can tolerate while feeling so wretched. Over time, it hurts a little less. Then a little less. And so on...Until one morning, you will awake and realize the pain is only a memory. It will always be with you, but it will eventually lack the power to cripple you.

You didn’t hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won’t hurt.

I was down after divorce - I was all the way down. And I just felt like, "God, I gotta turn this around. I can't go down like this. I have to know that this is happening for a reason." And I knew that I had to turn to music.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

Things get better--hurt less--over time. If you let them.

The bad part is life continues. The good part is that the pain goes away.

He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

I laugh when I see people in pain. Sometimes I think it is a defense mechanism from childhood, where you're in so much pain you have to laugh. It is a survival mechanism.

Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.

When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.

To come back on the ice was hard, and at the same time it was kind of a healing process.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

The message I want to give my fans is, always have a way to pull yourself out of the dark place. Don't sit and cry about it. Have your moment, and then get over it.

Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.

I have always tried to move on from disappointments as fast as I can.

As the weeks went on, I realized there was an important role comedy would play in healing the tragedies of September 11. Comedy can help people cope, and many people were coming to the clubs to laugh out the stress.

My wife has now made a point of, after losses, to bring our son into the bed when he wakes up in the morning. So when I'm waking up and I'm still obsessing over whatever happened the night before, I see this little guy right in front of me smiling and wanting to connect with me. It's totally changed how I compartmentalize.

I am a guy who likes to put the bad things and difficult times behind me.

I think I learned to overcome some things in life through dance.

Every single thing I do... is just me surviving.

I want survivors to know that healing is possible.

I wrote 'Saved' as a form of therapy to get over the fact that I had moved and lost so much of myself.