Lenny Abrahamson Quotes

Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.

It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.

I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary - the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

The first few years in L.A. were really tough and scary, but I had to figure things out for myself.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

I've seen too much in life to give up.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.

Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel.

When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

You can't cry when things get a little bit hard. You've just got to push through and know that there's a reason and end to the means.

I always tell people, 'It'll get greater later' meaning that sometimes we have to pass through whatever it is. We know that we can get through it because others have.

Imagine if you grew up in a place and the team was bad for a long time and there's almost like a pride in being able to stay here and stick it out, knowing that you're going to get to where you promised yourself and you've been promised at some point.

Poverty was my mother's midwife. She had her children in poverty. But she also found a road to bring us a sense of purpose, and she taught us how to be valiant in the face of oppression.