Jeff Buckley Quotes

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment.

One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

It is tough: sometimes the pain that you feel makes you grow.

It is by those who have suffered that the world has been advanced.

I think there can always be beauty in struggle.

When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful. Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle. We could have been ourselves without our delights, but not without the misfortunes that drive our search for meaning. 'Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities,' St. Paul wrote in Second Corinthians, 'for when I am weak, then I am strong.'

Life is a labor pain; we are here to give birth to ourself.

The bread of bitterness is the food on which men grow to their fullest stature; the waters of bitterness are the debatable ford through which they reach the shores of wisdom; the ashes boldly grasped and eaten without faltering are the price that must be paid for the golden fruit of knowledge.

What a terrible thing life can be.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

What molds us is what maims us.

The aim of life is to be fully born, though its tragedy is that most of us die before we are thus born.

One does not become fully human painlessly.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

I've been through a lot of stuff.