Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

There is still so much drama in my life, but I'm not a sad person anymore.

You find out what you are made of when you have a broken heart. If it happens early and often, all the better.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

I still don't love the darkness, though I've learned to smile in it a little bit, now and then.

My entire life I've proved that I'm able to overcome people's negativity toward me.

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

It is better to have some unhappiness while one is still young, for if a person does not experience some bitterness, his disposition will not settle down.

It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.

Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind, The boughs drink in new beauty and the trunk Sends down a deeper root on the windward side. Only the soul that knows the mighty grief Can know the mighty rapture, Sorrows come To stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.

What did not demolish me simply polished me.

You can't lead a true life without suffering

We thought the hard part was over—but we were wrong. Living is the hardest part. Figuring out how to live your life when you’re all busted up inside and out—there is nothing harder.

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

This world and life of ours are filled with inequalities. The worst possible use to make of this fact, however, is to allow resentments to possess us. All of us have imagined limitations, but we have also the privilege of pushing them aside, and spreading our lives out! We never know any of our limitations until we put ourselves to the test. There are always "growing pains" working within us.

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

Find the meaning behind whatever it is you're going through because everybody's got something.

You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to mention love.

A child must feel the flush of victory and the heart-sinking of disappointment before he takes with a will to the tasks distasteful to him and resolves to dance his way through a dull routine of textbooks.