Top 74 Quotes About Life Bad Times
#2. Life isn't worth living unless you have someone to share it with, Jacqueline. The good times, and the bad times. In sickness and in health. Even toward the end, she could still make my heart flutter when I looked at her.
J.A. Konrath
#3. I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#4. Life's a story don't you doubt. Bad times give you something to talk about.
Jeffrey Lewis
#5. I had my bad times. But the good news is that every time this has happened I've taken full responsibility for it. I don't try to duck it, I don't try to dodge it, I don't try to bullshit about it. Truth crushed to the ground will rise again. And that's what my life has been about.
Marion Barry
#6. At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings and endings. Dangerous and powerful. And we feel it even if we don't know what it is. These times are not necessarily good, and not necessarily bad. In fact, what they are depends on what *we* are.
Terry Pratchett
#7. It is OK to be happy in life. Even through all the strife, maybe especially during times of great pain and suffering. We still have to be able to stay close to that joy because we can't save the world in a bad mood.
Andrew W.K.
#8. Life has good and bad times. And to get through them you have to battle. Life is not all smooth. I've had my bumps and bruises, like anybody, but I've always tried to look at life like a glass that's half full.
Dick Vitale
#9. The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.
Chuck Barris
#11. If there is a reason to be sorrowful, then there is a reason to be happy. You have only one lifetime, don't live your life in sorrow! Be happy! Be happy no matter what, and only mind the lessons life teaches each day!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#12. I want you to know God, but not because you've made some sort of bargain or deal with Him. You must seek His face because you want to know the Lord and because you want the Lord to be part of your life through all times, not just bad times.
Darlene Franklin
#13. Our experiences always teach us something. If the experience is "bad", then the lesson is even more powerful and meaningful. Every unfortunate incident makes us stronger and better equipped to handle new challenges.
Miya Yamanouchi
#14. I still have a tendency to sit back and wait out the bad things that try and take over my life.
Dean Bakopoulos
#15. I miss Texas so bad. That's the hard part about being out here in L.A., trying to pursue acting and music and lighting and production and stuff. It takes a lot of time out from your personal life, and I can only get back to Texas three times a year at most. It's tough.
Jackson Rathbone
#16. It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you'd eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)
Ron Rash
#17. You have the ability to write melodies and to put lyrics that mean something: to speak about life and what people are going through in their every day ups and downs, the good times and the bad times. Country music has always talked about life, I think; that's what I've always loved about it.
Jimi Westbrook
#18. What's hard is not having that hope. I can't imagine going through bad times without that peace. Without that surrender, life just eats you up. Spits you out. Wears you down to nothing.
Jenny B. Jones
#19. Through the good times and bad, the quality of your relationships will ultimately determine the quality of your life. So be grateful for your loved ones and focus on adding as much value to their lives as you possibly can.
Hal Elrod
#22. Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.
James Patterson
#23. It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every place has something good - and bad - to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast.
Nicholas Sparks
#24. Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn't true.
Sara Sheridan
#25. Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.
Joel Osteen
#26. The difference between darkness and brightness is how you thrive on those moments and how you use such circumstances with goodwill in your spirit.
Angelica Hopes
#27. No matter what happens to us in life, we tend to think of it as 'good' or 'bad.' And most of us tend to use the 'bad' label three to 10 times as often as the 'good' label. And when we say something is bad, the odds grow overwhelming that we will experience it as such.
Srikumar Rao
#28. life would be perfect if girls had a mute button, guys had an delete button, bad times had a fast forward button, and good times had a pause button.
Julie Stone
#29. Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.
Levon Helm
#30. D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.
W. Somerset Maugham
#31. Life is about balance. It's not about forgetting the bad times or escaping them. It's about creating enough good times to outweigh the bad.
Tommy Cotton
#32. In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.
Walt Disney
#33. But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?
Cecelia Ahern
#34. I learned about the strength you can get from a close family life. I learned to keep going, even in bad times. I learned not to despair, even when my world was falling apart. I learned that there are no free lunches. And I learned the value of hard work.
Lee Iacocca
#35. ...in life, a man only comes to a few crossroads that can shape his future for good or bad. Sometimes one recognized these crossroads, and could stop and think about the right decision. But other times, the choice could only be seen with the clarity that came afterward.
Morgan Rhodes
#36. There were times when the bad and the sad could have weighed me down. But to drink life from only the good is to taste only half of it.
E.L. Konigsburg
#37. We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.
Mattie Stepanek
#38. they were bonded together by generosity in good times and solidarity in bad. This was what he would be fighting for, these people, this town. And if he had to give his life for them, it would be well spent.
Ken Follett
#40. Plenty of people think the same thing. All of them are teenagers, mentally if not physically. Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, gown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God.
Tana French
#41. But I loved Rule like it was my mission in life. I loved him like it was inevitable, like no matter how many times I was shown what an awful idea it was, what a bad match we were, what a callous asshole he could be, I couldn't shake it.
Jay Crownover
#42. I try to be active five to six times a week, and I keep very healthy, but I don't beat myself up on a bad day. If you're working fourteen hours on a set and you need to eat five protein bars, then you just do that. I keep it a regular and normal part of my life as [much as] I can.
Rhea Seehorn
#43. Life is a mess, there is trouble around every corner. But Jesus gives us peace and rest in the good and the bad times.
Michelle Lynn Brown
#44. There's plenty of days when I'm like 'Oh God, why? But that's just life. It's every job, not just mine. Every moment is not perfect. But it's definitely more good times than bad. You can't even compare. And when I'm on stage it feels incredible
Beyonce Knowles
#45. No matter what the day brings and no matter how hard life hits you, if you can breathe, smile and keep moving on! Once you have life, know that God is alive!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#46. As cruel as life might be at times, if you throw in the towel, which is what everyone will expect, then nothing good will happen and your life will fall apart. Be better than that!
Bill Courtney
#47. I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.
Luis Miguel
#48. People have been wonderful to me in the good times and the bad, and I've come to believe that you do indeed reap what you sow. For those who constantly gripe about life, I turn and walk away. For those who speak negatively about people behind their backs, I move on.
Bob Losure
#49. The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#50. It's only knitting and it's one of the few times in your life when there are no bad consequences to a mistake.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
#51. No.'
It's not a bad word.
And it is very important to use at times.
Practice saying it in the mirror.
It's empowering.
Christy Hall
#52. Gaining control over your health and well-being is one of those times in your life that you get to be completely selfish and not feel bad about it. If you want to meet your goals, you have to make it about you. You have to make it work for you and you alone. Anything less is a setup for failure.
Jennifer Hudson
#53. Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.
Dan Miller
#54. Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.
Pablo Escobar
#55. There were bad times before, and you are still here... Living, breathing, feeling the wind on your skin. Let everything go and feel it!
Adam Scythe
#56. How shall I sum up my life?
I think I've been particularly lucky.
Audrey Hepburn
#57. Only teenagers think boring is bad. Adults, grown men and women who've been around the block a few times, know that boring is a gift straight from God. Life has more than enough excitement up its sleeve, ready to hit you with as soon as you're not looking, without you adding to the drama.
Tana French
#58. At times of great emotion, good or bad, I find I am gone, somewhere else, watching it happen to me, a different me. I miss a lot of my own life, my own moments, because I step outside myself. I feel it all more in retrospect than in actual time.
Rosie O'Donnell
#59. No matter our sins or our sufferings, we are not isolated or abandoned. Christ is there for us, in good times and bad, and if we know how to follow Him, how to walk in His footsteps, then the road home doesn't seem quite so treacherous or impossible to scale.
Toni Sorenson
#60. My time has is here, my mission has failed, but in spite of my limitations i will never loose faith. life is just a process, some do good while some do bad, i thank God for salvation because in times like these i could be careless working on my own defensive violating plans..
Ryan Leonard
#61. All too often we fail to see the good in a difficult situation. Our minds are wired in such a funny way that we tend to believe just because a door closed it must be a bad thing.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#62. I feel bad that I never discussed my mother's life and times as a career woman with her.
Geraldine Stutz
#63. Many times in life, God waits while a situation goes from bad to worse. He appears to let it slip over the edge, so that you and I say, "There's no way now for this ever to work out." But that is the point when the omnipotent God intervenes in our hopelessness and says, "Oh, really? Watch this ... !
Jim Cymbala
#64. There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity ... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
Lee Iacocca
#65. It is not always a bad thing for you to be challenged by life and to struggle; however, as you go through these times, you have to be careful not to lose yourself in the process.
Meghan Wier
#66. The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.
Alethea Kontis
#67. Many times in my life, I've seen someone decide, 'I'm going to do this. This is going to happen for me.' And good or bad, it always does.
Scarlett Savage
#68. Genes, I have learned, do not make a family. Families are the people that stick around through good and bad times. Sadness is a part of life. Choosing to be happy and see the glass half full is a struggle we all must make.
Jaycee Dugard
#69. And then other times life just sucks and there is nothing to learn. You just get used to it sucking until something else happens to make it worse. Maybe nothing ever gets better, you just grow accustomed to constantly increasing levels of bad." "Life does suck.
Liz Schulte
#70. One should never live with regrets or with 'what if.' I've loved the good times, and I have learned from the bad. All in all, it's been a pretty fabulous life for me.
Ivana Trump
#71. The Lord is my Rock. He has always been there, always present at good times and bad; and to me when I feel His presence, my life is full.
Aaron Rodgers
#72. It is as though God said, You think to create order? Here is the appropriate disorder, since they are one.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
#73. Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
Fannie Flagg
#74. Keep calm when things don't go according to your expectations! Beautiful things always meet friction!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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