Matt Groening Quotes

Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.

Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?

A good thing to remember is somebody's got it a lot worse than we do.

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

Misfortune was my god.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people - God, nobody on this Earth worked harder than my mom and dad - and they had very little.

Love works not for profit nor reward; yet God has ordained that great gain shall be the certain result of every labor of love.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. Where there is despair, hope. Where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console, To be understood as to understand, To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive, It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, It is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

There are a lot of ups and downs. But there are always people who have it worse.

I've always felt very blessed and lucky in the world, and I have great compassion for people who struggle to get through the day.

Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

Why bad things happen to good people

Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.

God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.