Michelle Alexander Quotes

I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain.

Pain is love.

Only the tortured can understand those who have been tortured.

Human suffering is not a competitive sport.

Guys like to gaslight us, and it's not cool. And it happens so much; it's happened to me in relationships. It's happened to me where I have been cheated on, and I felt so sad and angry, like it wasn't my fault, but that was because the person was gaslighting me into thinking it was my fault.

I haven't been in the military, but I've known my share of pain. It allows me to sit with someone who's struggling and not be afraid.

My relationship was always abusive, so I chose to not socialise much. People who knew me knew that what pain I was going through.

I don't think I ever sit there and think to kick a wound harder.

He reminded me of someone who put your fingers in the door and smiled and talked to you while he smashed them.

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.

These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.

A compassionate heart will lift you out of the pain and suffering of your own world because it knows that everyone is doing the best they can, given their state of consciousness and the histories they're dragging behind them.

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.

Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war.

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.

We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.