Sean O'Casey Quotes

“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”

There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of positivity. Stone Sour is the same way. There's a certain melancholy that comes with the slower stuff, but at the end of the day there's also that other side that is very positive. It's all how you deliver.

Don't despair, even over the fact that you don't despair

It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.

I like to write from a slightly sad or complicated place. But with a sense of hope and happiness at the same time.

Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.

Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning.

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world

I like to hear songs which can lay it all on, songs which can look at the dark side as well as the bright side, sometimes they can be as strong as each other. Love and hatred are close.

Maybe the songs that we sing are wrong, Maybe the dreams that we dream are gone, So bring it on home and it won't be long, It's getting better man!

How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?

Hope that is the only antidote to fear.

When everything seems to go wrong, with peace of heart, you can press on. With peace of heart, you can press on, whatever life brings.

Every day, I walk the streets with my head held high, but deep down inside, sometimes I'm like, 'I just hope I can get through the day.'

I've never really let any kind of negative things affect me, generally. I would take a positive out of the most desperately horrible situation.

There are going to be ups and downs, but you have to have a steady mindset, regardless of the situation you're in.

We want to show the world that even if you go through some bad periods, you always have to think positive just to go forward.

I struggle every day to hold on to what little hope I can find.

Some days I'm up, some days I'm down. But I think one thing that does get you moving is hope.

I believe that no matter what you believe, you're going to go through hard times.

We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.

My natural reaction is to smile through things.

I am not someone who lets my head get down.

I don't want people to feel sorry for me or pity me - I want people to know that what got me through was human spirit and everyone has that in them.