“I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
“I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
“I've admired a lot of people in my life time and some of them were actually alive.”
“Some aspects of life are strange or even terrible, but later something okay or even good happens that would never have happened without the bad/strange thing. -- "The Higher Power of Lucky”
“The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.”
“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.”