Justin Chatwin Quotes

I didn't have the easiest time growing up; it's no secret. We were just poor.

In Brazil, I didn't have it easy growing up.

I had, probably, a more challenging experience growing up than most middle-class chicks.

I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.

Wealth makes many friends; but the poor is deserted by his neighbor.

I come from nothing.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

Growing up was very difficult.

One of the reasons we stay so alone in our lives is because we're ashamed to talk about the hard stuff. It's as simple as that. We're all in pain in different ways, and we don't get the help we need because we're too ashamed to talk about the pain.

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

I visualized a lot of things happening to me, because I was a lonely kid because I didn't understand anything about school.

When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

Everybody goes through obstacles and problems and issues and turn their backs on people that we are fond of and love just because we hurt; and everybody goes through that.

Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.

Everybody has problems.

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