Marina Abramovic Quotes

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

Of course! It takes a lot of strength to mend a broken heart. Channelising energies into your work helps, but also to be able to accept situations for what they are instead of questioning them helps immensely.

When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.

It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

When things have gone really wrong in my life, I've cried like a child. I have really, really cried. I cry it out. Two-three days I cry, and then I'm like, enough, time to deal with reality and figure a way out. This is the way I have dealt with everything.

Emotional hurt, you gotta let that go. Walk away and let it be. So many highs and lows, but if you keep being down, you'll never get up.

I'm very emotional. When I went through my first breakup, I thought it was the end of the world, and I thought I was going to die if I didn't have him in my life. It was good to cry it out and just scream, or call my friends in the middle of the night crying.

I've had very deep moments of sadness. What I do is really sob, really cry, do whatever it is, and then kind of release it. Then I can go cook dinner or make a phone call to a friend.

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

He cried that night for all that he had lost, but he would say it taught him a valuable lesson: that holding on to things "will only break your heart.

As the smoke clears, I awaken, And untangle you from me. Would it make you feel better To watch me, while I bleed? All my windows still are broken, But I'm standing on my feet.

Shouldn't letting go be painless if you've never learned how to hold on?

I am never writing a breakup record again, by the way. I'm done with being a bitter witch.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult. I blamed myself for a lot of things. It took me a very long time to get over it.

The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to deal with you come back spiritually stronger. It changes you in a way.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Heartbreak is hard, but you find more and more things to be grateful for every day.

I think sometimes when our childhoods are difficult, we forget that there's also a lot of joy.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

I don't suffer of anything that I've lost.

I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.

You need to mourn, you need to be upset, to give yourself time to replenish. Then you use it all as fuel to get stronger.