Wes Craven Quotes

Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.

I think loss can fuel how you lead your whole life.

Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

Not a day goes by when I don't wish I had both legs.

I have been in an experience where I thought everything that I had hoped for in my life was taken away from me, and I had to redefine what mattered.

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.

This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die.

After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.

The film 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,' based the book of the same name, has a line that enlightens and comforts me. The protagonist, who has lost all ability to move except one eye, discusses his role as a father. He notes, 'Even a fraction of a father is still a father.'

The heart will break, but broken live on.

When everything in a person's life is gone, ripped-out gone, it's not that you stay empty for so long, so you replace it with something else very quickly.

How many 54-year-old quadriplegics are putting albums out? You just have to deal with what you got, try to sustain yourself as best you can, and look to the things that you can do.

Cancer is a very sad thing, but you can always take something from every experience.

The last thing I ever thought would ever happen to me was losing my legs.

Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life!

People who live through transplants or disasters like Sept. 11 are survivors.

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void: the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning.

There have been bumps, but everything has happened for a reason - maybe apart from the loss of some loved ones - and we have always tried to find a positive from it.

I lost my son in late 2011. He had been totally incapacitated from his neck down for the last eight years of his life, but his mind was alive and brilliant in those years. He even wrote a book, 'Allegheny Mountain,' lying at home in his hospital bed.

Everybody has losses, and sometimes they're worse than others, but you can always bounce back.

I do a lot of book signings and conventions every year, and I meet a great many readers who are struggling... they're working through illness, injury, addiction, depression, grief, or some other trauma. It seems to me that there's a lot of heroism in fighting those things as well, as best you can.

When we lost Steve, it was a real crossroads of deciding if you're just going to curl up in the corner or try to do something even bigger and better.