Stephen King Quotes

Dr. Barney stared at me, his lips puckered. What was he so serious about? Who hasn’t thought about killing themselves, as a kid? How can you grow up in this world and not think about it?

Pain is one of life's great lessons. You need to know how you'll react to the negatives in your life. Only then will you learn from the pain, and the next time it happens, you can speed up your healing process.

Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

People play with pain all the time.

You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things

I do think, half of what we call madness is just some poor slob dealing with pain by a strategy that annoys the people around him.

Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls

Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn.

I grew up bar-singing and saw all kinds of ways people tried to outrun their emotional pain. It doesn't work. You end up with the original pain, as well as new pain added on top of it from the tactics you used trying to avoid it in the first place. It's best to take a deep breath, bolster yourself, and walk through it.

Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You recover. You move on. Odds are pretty good you're just going to get hurt again. But each time, you learn something. Each time you come out of it a little stronger, and at some point you realize there are more flavors of pain than coffee. Pain does two things: it teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. And everything that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one way or another.

The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.

The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

We're naturally programmed to endure a muddle of emotions as we leave childhood behind.

I hated myself for so many reasons, and I thought so many things were my fault that happened to me growing up.

I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.

Everybody has a story... and a scream.

I never was a child.

I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.

At school I'd want to be so small that nobody could see me, and so my work depicts and reflects me - what it felt like to grow up in a world of pain.

As a kid, I was depressed and riddled with anxiety. The bottom dropped out when I was 19.

People who have been through trauma, their souls are hurting.