Gilbert Arenas Quotes

The most wretched have yet hope.

I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.

When things aren't going well it can feel like the world is against you and there's nowhere to turn.

How many would die did not hope sustain them.

Feel like a broke-down engine, ain't got no drivin' wheel. You all been down and lonesome, you know just how a poor man feels.

i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

The nearer the dawn the darker the night.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

Nothing comes easily for me.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?

It always looks dark at the bottom of a recovery.

I became bitter, hard, cold. I was always on a panic - couldn't buy clothes or a good place to live.

There is one good thing about reaching the bottom. When you get there, there's nothing left to do but fight your way back up or die.

You can be going through hardships sometimes, and you're struggling, and then you're wondering if you're ever gonna make it.

If you try and kind of focus on hope, but you know what it's like to be in the dark, then hope is more meaningful.

There was a time when I had nothing. I lost everything.

The underdog is a person that's at risk, a person that has a lot of big trials you have to overcome. I mean, that was my life.

I saw tough times, and there were many nights when I would just cry out aloud.

What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don't give up the ship, we have only begun to fight, it's always darkest before the dawn.