Marilyn Hacker Quotes

Life breaks us all, but you're stronger in the places that were broken. Or you can essentially crumble, give up, and, you know, waste your life.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

The beauty's in the scars.

I have a different kind of experience than other girls had. I've had to face a lot of different styles and adjust to them. I had to face a lot of bad situations and come back. I've had to fight with my eyes swollen shut and my nose broken and bloody.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.

Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.

I had to fight; I had to fall, and I had to get hurt to be where I am.

Injuries make you stronger.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

Once you've been through tough times, you can only become stronger.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

The stuff I've seen and lived and survived. Gun to my head, cops coming to your house. I had the confidence of telling myself that I'm going to make it. Everything I've been through, I could've had a mental breakdown, but I kept it together. If I didn't have that confidence I wouldn't have made it. That confidence has nothing to do with basketball.

Life can be so difficult at times but fighting through the pain is so worth it.

Nietzsche famously said "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But what he failed to stress is that it almost kills you.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

I didn't drown. I didn't break.

Scars remind me of just how far that I've come.

If they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable.