Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it.

Why me? Why did this happen? How could I be in Westlife and then have nothing to show for it financially at the end of it? But it's like, why not me? That's just life. It's tough. There's a lot more problems in the world. There are a lot of people who would wish to God they had my problem instead of having a sick child.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

Life smacks Tracy Morgan in the face, and I don't mean to talk in third party, but no, it doesn't stop raining when I come outside, no, absolutely not. I'm very in touch.

Don't struggle about the struggle. In other words, life's full of ups and downs. So if you're struggling, don't worry, everyone else has or will at some point.

I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

That's the goal, to survive your gift.

Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.

Life is not mean to be easy.

I think, in every person's life, you have ups and downs. You learn so much about yourself, sometimes even more, in the down times. Unfortunately, I had to go through it in public, which was not easy.

Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.

Every step of the way, life was hard. I was supposed to be a statistic.

One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.

My entire life, nothing's been easy. This is the way it ought to be.

I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

Just growing up and going through life and how tough life was for me and my family, I'm always going to stay humble.

I was injured many times, but life is like this, and I have to accept this.

It's life, man, and life is never easy.

We all go through things in life. You try to stay positive, but you can't ignore bad things that happen. You just try to work through them.

I've had to be tough my whole life.

Life is tough, but I'm tougher.

I wasn't just playing football on the street. I grew up on the street.