Chris Rea Quotes

She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.

We live in a vale of tears...We can have all the dreams we like, but life is hard, implacable, sad.

Consider anything, only don’t cry!

they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.

The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

I went through a lot of hard times. I went through a lot of struggle. A few times, I was in tears. It brought me to my knees just about.

Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way.

I don't know who will overcome losses, some losses aren't meant to be overcome, but all losses make for good stories and good character development and all the jazz that makes a show compelling and watchable.

It’s been a full week since she left and all you’ve done is sulk like a dying cow. (Kish)

That's what life is all about. There's a lot of crying. So you'd better cry now and get used to it.

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for.

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, Blessed are they that morn.

Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

Be patient with yourself. Don't make the loss harder by thinking you should be a certain way, or have bounced back, etc.

We cried and sobbed and wept and bled tears. But when we were finished, all we could do was continue living.

Though there were moments of beauty, Mariam knew for the most part that life had been unkind to her.