Mark Waid Quotes

I would never write stories with only despair and defeat and the dark side of life.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

In my stories, I controlled what happened in a way I couldn't in real life. My characters lived through the horror and degradation of the cruelty of others and they not only survived, they thrived. They gave me hope and laughter, and they kept me going in spite of everything else. They were my heroes.

When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

I'm very happy being me, although sometimes I'd love to be a bird so that I could fly.

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

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.

And I always think of life like a giant wave. You know, it rises and it crests and it flies, and it's just magnificent, and then it crashes. And for a lot of people, when it crashes, that's the end, and they go down the deep, dark hole of depression.

After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of 'Glee,' a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of 'spirit fingers' to chase our cares and woes into somebody else's backyard.

Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising above all.

Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it.

I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any darkness.

I don't write stories about despair. I write stories about hope.

In the darkest of times, the most fulfilling thing in the world is finding the light.

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

If you hear a good song, it makes you hopeful like, 'That is out there.'

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.

I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.

The suffering of the Bahamian people is nearly ended. A new day is coming. It is almost here.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.