Clare Boothe Luce Quotes

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

Death is not the worst sorrow.

Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

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

The stories my pupils told me were astonishing. One told how he had witnessed his cousin being shot in the back five times; another how his parents had died of AIDS. Another said that he'd probably been to more funerals than parties in his young life. For me - someone who had had an idyllic, happy childhood - this was staggering.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

Sickness, insanity and death were the angels that surrounded my cradle and they have followed me throughout my life.

I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

I think everybody has their pain. For me, the time that I really had to grow up was when I was 15 and I had my best friend die of leukemia. Watching somebody so strong go through that is definitely something that will give you a little bit of depth. There have been a lot of things that have happened in my life that has forced me to grow up.

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

We don't live in the Garden. We live far from Eden. Every life is full of heartaches. Every life, frankly, is unspeakably sad.

When I was young I lost everything.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

All I have I would have given gladly not to be standing here today.

I think that no human gets away unscathed in this old life. We've all experienced loss and grief and pain and tragedy.

There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.

Slipknot started out of tragedy.

My mom got shot. My dad got shot. Some of the craziest stuff. All that happened to me.