Bill Hicks Quotes

You just deal with the cards that are dealt you and you just go on and push forward.

I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

I feel very badly about anybody that's sick and in a wheelchair or not doing well. But you know, you have to go, 'Life is a poker game, and we're going to play our cards somehow.'

You just try to make the best decisions you can. You just take life as it comes to you and do your best.

You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.

My husband's the first one to say, "This is not the end of the world." We're doing what we want to do - what we have chosen to do - and we know the risks involved.

You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. Now I just have to polish these off, and everything'll be OK. Life is a box of chocolates. I suppose you could call it a philosophy.

We must have the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless furnace of this world.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Some of my cronies call me a pessimist and a decadent, but there is always a background of faith behind resignation.

Even injustice has it's good points. It gives me the challenge of being as happy as I can in an unfair world.

Regret isn't good. Every decision one makes in life is made for a reason or another. Whenever something bad happens, I go, 'This is happening for a reason', or, 'This is going to teach me something'.

I go through life with a smile because I know things can be worse than they are.

Sometimes you do have to laugh to keep from crying. And sometimes the world feels all right and good and kind of like it's becoming nice again around you. And you realize it, and realize how happy you are in it, and you just gotta laugh.

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life.

Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail.

You just have to smile and breathe. You do the best you can with what you have and that's it.

In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.

Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come.

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

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.

There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you up if you don't.

Life affirming doesn't mean good things happen.