Brother Quote by John Edgar Wideman

There were a lot of moments in my life where I could have died or I could have ended up serving 20 years to…

— IronE Singleton

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was…

— Brooke Shields

Through all the problems I faced, the burden on my shoulder, the pain in my heart. I've got one thing to say...I survived.

— Athar Azeem

...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at…

— Anna Maxted

I would like to think that as a result of not just my own experiences, but at least being empathetic and compassionate about other…

— Terry McMillan

I'd say that the only trauma I've suffered was existential.

— Yossi Ghinsberg

My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible…

— Dane Cook

Even the mistakes and the pain that you've caused and enacted upon you. That is definitely what I'm trying to capture

— Greg Mottola

My childhood had extremely difficult moments and some trauma but there were also amazing moments and times of pure happiness.

— Dominique Jackson

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

— Nelson Mandela

Mine was quite a working-class childhood with very little money, and my father was out of work a couple of times, which had quite…

— John Caudwell

What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old…

— Newt Gingrich