Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow.

In all troublous events we may find comfort, though it be only in the negative admission that things might have been worse.

Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.

There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that.

The ups and downs, the problems and stress, along with all the happiness, have given me optimism and hope because I am living proof of survival.

You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

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.

The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.

Even if my marriage is falling apart and my children are unhappy, there is still a part of me that says, 'God, this is fascinating!'

The sun will shine again. No matter... how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.

You need to learn to be with the suffering that inevitably arises in your life.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

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.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

Remember even though the outside world might be raining, if you keep on smiling the sun will soon show its face and smile back at you.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

As much as a given condition can be bad at a moment in time, it could be a lot worse.

Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Nor does it ever last as long as you think.