Paul Simon Quotes

I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my way to the stars -Songs of Sapphique

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

How can you beat someone that's already lost everything?

When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Marriage is the death of hope.

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

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

Many people would rather have fine words and false hopes than the truth which is unacceptable.

Workers and peasants of Brooklyn, all I believed in was a lie.

Sitting in marble corridors waiting for important people to lie to you.

Alas, we have not yet the power to render completely sterile or make impossible the errors and lies which will merely be America being itself rather than its unconvincing promise.

At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process.

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.

There's never any ebb in human misery.

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

For me and Washington, it was like I was in a dark tunnel, and the light was really far away.

When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies.

All hopes are lies, all expectations of the future are lies.

Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.

When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain.

And one thing to be remembered: it is not that the people who are poor, starving, become frustrated with life - no. They cannot become frustrated. They have not lived yet - how can they be frustrated? They have hopes. A poor man always has hopes that something is going to happen - if not today then tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow; if not in this life then in the next life.