Philip Yancey Quotes

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

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

Everybody faces pain. Everybody has trauma.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

People need to know what I've gone through.

I have been through so much.

I think, losses, I think they teach you the most, but it's tough. I'm not gonna lie. It sucks. It's terrible. You can't sleep for two days.

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.

Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

My life was pretty rough.

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

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.

Appalling things can happen to children. And even a happy childhood is filled with sadnesses.

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.

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

One of the things that happens to everyone who is grief-stricken, who has lost someone, is there comes a time when everyone else just wants you to get over it, but of course you don't get over it. You get stronger; you try and live on; you endure; you change; but you don't get over it. You carry it with you.

I've been through a lot of stuff.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

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

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.