Art Quote by Princess Nokia

If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me.

— Beyonce Knowles

I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart…

— Sri Aurobindo

I come from a very dysfunctional family, so I was comfortable in misery. So I would create more misery for myself because I didn't…

— Kerli

I'd be on stage in Ireland performing for thousands of people and just not believing in what I'm doing at all. And it hurt,…

— Vic Mensa

If you took away all pain, if everyone lived forever, everything would be bland, flat and boring; there would be no reason for art,…

— Matt Haig

I wasn't present for my own life for a long time. I wasn't there; I wasn't in my relationships; I wasn't in my band;…

— John Rzeznik

What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What…

— Arthur Golden

Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.

— John Tavener

There was no way to laugh anymore, to love, to care, and there was a sense of guilt in having survived when others had…

— Romeo Dallaire

I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.

— Giada De Laurentiis

I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long…

— Gary Numan

No one who had never been depressed like me could imagine that the pain could get so bad that death became a star to…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel