Anne Sexton Quotes

For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.

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

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

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

What hurts us is what heals us.

Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

Loss is loss. Doesn't take death to create it.

Everyone has a choice. (Kiara) No, princess, they don’t. Choices aren’t always up to us. Life and circumstances can shred even the stoutest soul. No matter how pure and untainted you think you are, I promise you that you, too, can be shoved into the darkness, just like we were. (Syn)

I wondered why life had to suck so hard sometimes.

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

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

My life was pretty rough.

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

It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

Misfortune was my god.

I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

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.