Sandra Bullock Quotes

In the country of pain we are each alone.

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

In a household tragedy, you are very much aware of being alone. It is something that is possible to grasp, and that is why it hurts so much. Because you are alone. I know a little about this.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

I had no idea that what I thought was my low wasn't really my low. That's what a lot of people think - then life reminds them, 'No, there's lower.'

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.

Suffering is a good teacher. It keeps you in its grip until you've learned your lesson.

Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you

You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.

I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

Light sufferings give us leisure to complain.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.

The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

It's not been a pleasant life.