Bernadette Devlin Quotes

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

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.

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 look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to see the other side.

Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

I hope that people take away hope, maybe not in an obvious sense, but in the form of hearing somebody who's genuinely fighting to stay above water. And in that fight, there's hope. In that fight, maybe there's positivity.

Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

There will be rough nights but joy really does come in the morning.

Hope is a function of struggle.

No matter how difficult life becomes, there is always hope.

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

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

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

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.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.

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

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

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