Bette Midler Quotes

I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think there's always been a shred of hope in everything I've written 'cause I like that balance.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.

Despite what people might think, I'm not interested in being dark all the time. I'm actually searching for some kind of light, and I'm always very happy when I can achieve that.

There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of positivity. Stone Sour is the same way. There's a certain melancholy that comes with the slower stuff, but at the end of the day there's also that other side that is very positive. It's all how you deliver.

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

That's what's so cool about 'Once:' There is a layer of darker stuff, but it's balanced by this incredible light.

I have been blessed with a good, fun, and wonderful life, but I've also seen a whole lot of pain.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

For everything that you find dreadful, there's usually something that is rather marvelous as well.

I think if you know one direction, then you can feel the other one. I don't think you can be truly, insanely joyous if you haven't ever felt the flip side of it.

We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.

I want to have not only the good side of life but the bad side of life. And the both combined is just my music. It's funny at the same time as it's sad.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Life at best is bittersweet.

We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.

In anything there has to be dark and light. There's a lot of joy in my paintings and a lot of darkness.

Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.

I make negative music, but I also make positive music because that's what thrown at me with life.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that.

I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reckless with things. I'm a passionate person. I'm a super passionate person. I think there's definitely been sorrow in my life, good and bad. I think it comes through. I hope it comes through in my writing because to me that's what artistry is.

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.