Maggie Q Quotes

Pain is one of the unavoidable facts of life. We Bidens have had our share. We don't pretend otherwise. And we don't pretend that we are different from families all over America that have to face the loss of loved ones or have to deal with the fallout of divorces.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

Everybody faces pain. Everybody has trauma.

My worst year. The only thing that I know for a fact now is that if it's really a bad day, then I draw the curtains, and I lay in bed. There is no way of dealing with grief. And I have no idea. This year I had double of them, my mother and my husband. I just take it one day at a time.

Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.

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

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

From time to time, I'll look back through the personal journals I've scribbled in throughout my life, the keepers of my raw thoughts and emotions. The words poured forth after my dad died, when I went through a divorce, and after I was diagnosed with breast cancer. There are so many what-ifs scribbled on those pages.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

I think for anybody, any family, and I know there are families out there that are going through this even now, that it is the hardest thing in the world. Nobody is ever prepared for it.

Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.

It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

I think 'Manchester' is really about grieving and trying to get on after something terrible has happened to an adult, and a whole life being destroyed, and then, what are the forces that keep him involved with the people he loves? They love him, and they won't let him go.

When you suffer a tragedy, the secondary loss of having it bleed into other areas of your life is so real.

I have seen things in my life that have broken me in spirit.

I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy.

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

Non-fictionalised accounts of horrific accidents, bereavement, and the outrages of officialdom tend to move us deeply.

I lost and I didn't die. I still had my health, family and people who loved me.