A Quote by John Tavener

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

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John Tavener
British - Composer
January 28, 1944 - November 12, 2013

You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.

Emilie Autumn

My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and terribly sad man.

Alvin Ailey

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc]

Gautama Buddha

A lot of my stories about the old days, they're delicious and funny. But every time I recall the early days, it's painful. With every anecdote, it's painful because you're summoning up the terribly, terribly difficult life of my parents. And it's painful because I didn't realize at the time how hard it was for them.

Mario Cuomo

One of the great things about humor is, you can slip things past people with humor, you can use it as a sweetener. So you can actually tell them things, give them messages, get terribly, terribly serious and terribly, terribly dark, and because there are jokes in there, they'll go along with you, and they'll travel a lot further along with you than they would otherwise.

Neil Gaiman

There's nothing terribly wrong with The November Man in a serviceable late-night cable TV sort of way but neither is there anything terribly right about it. It's unnecessary and derivative.

James Berardinelli

I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.

Sia

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

Oscar Wilde

I respond well to terribly beautiful, terribly brilliant Russian women.

Robert Rinder

Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.

Terry Pratchett

Im not tense, just terribly, terribly alert." Nick

Sherrilyn Kenyon

in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.

Patrick Rothfuss

I don't think pornography is harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring.

Noel Coward

But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.

Jack Vance

I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.

Patty Hearst

The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'

Iggy Pop

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