Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?' 'Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

I'm suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That's the point!

A lot of people who have depression understand that the last thing in the world you want to do when you're feeling that way is get up and exercise. It's virtually impossible to do that. It's like somebody beating you.

I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.

I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

I'm not in the business of suffering.

I do know there is a lot of pain sometimes but you need to deal with it and communicate what you're feeling.

I don't search it out - I really want to be clear, I don't search out the misery! I'm not sitting at home going, 'I can't wait to do another harrowing piece of work.'

None can cure their harms by wailing them.

I don't kill myself. I can't live like that.

Don't let yourself suffer needlessly, find a need to suffer.

It's a very lonely place, being an addict.

Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

The best happiness will be to escape the worst misery.

Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.

If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.

I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art.

I have spent my life falling. Not the kind that Tiny's talking about. He's talking about love. I'm talking about life. In my kind of falling, there's no landing. There's only hitting the ground. Hard. Dead, or wanting to be dead. So the whole time you're falling, it's the worst feeling in the world. Because you feel you have no control over it. Because you know how it ends.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Pain (any pain-emotional, physical, mental) has a message. Once we get the pains message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

Pain is inevitable, suffering is not.

Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less.

But we must not suffer over the suffering.