Linwood Barclay Quotes

Every time I get something under control in my own life, the world provides more material.

You can’t dress rehearse the bad moments.

Real life happens. Sometimes it's messy. Sometimes it doesn't work.

If it was up to us every single day, then we would all have a perfect life, but stuff happens, but it's an imperfect world.

My own personality is fairly optimistic and generally very happy, but like everyone else I've been through difficult stuff, particularly in my teenage years, where I experienced enough melancholia to feed any number of electronic records.

Everybody's gone through some kind of struggle in their life, and I'd like to be the type of voice who talks about it.

It's very hard to come up with ideal situations... With different moods and the difficulties of traveling around, I often play my best under the worst conditions.

Everything isn't always going to be peaches and cream. If it is, then it's fake.

I've lost a lot in life because of my nature.

We will all face criticism throughout our lives, no matter where we live and what we weigh.

When you're in this world, you don't get to pick and choose what you go through.

Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!

The measure of who we are is how we react to something that doesn't go our way.

Life is going to present you with tons of problems, it's what you do about them that matters.

My life so far has been a long series of things I wasn't ready for.

In everybody’s life there’s a point of no return. And in a very few cases, a point where you can’t go forward anymore. And when we reach that point, all we can do is quietly accept the fact. That’s how we survive.

I think it's important for people to know that bad things do happen to good people and that life can throw a serious curveball at even the most cautious and "prepared" people out there.

The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

'When you have a lemon, make a lemonade.' That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says, 'I 'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't got a chance.' Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of self-pity .

Maxims in times of danger are useless, experience is incommunicable. The knotted strands of life, desire, assumptions, and moral codes cannot be unsnarled; they can only be cut, which is what happens when an air raid occurs, with a silencing fortissimo like the finale of a Beethoven symphony.