Fay Weldon Quotes

In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.

It's never as good as it feels, and it's never as bad as it seems.

As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the time.

Things are never as bad or as good as they seem.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

We hope vaguely, we dread precisely; our fears are infinitely more precise than our hopes

I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it.

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.

I don't have any expectations.

The world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.

Perspective is not a science but a hope.

The good ole days weren't always good, and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

I'm very realistic in my outlook on everything in life. When I look ahead in my mind to see what's going to happen next, I see the good and I see the bad.

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.