Sherman Alexie Quotes

I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.

I think maybe to survive, I mean to just get through the day - I'm not saying that everything is hilariously funny.

You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.

Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder than life itself.

...but somehow the madness around me and the turmoil I carried within myself acted as counterweights, and I survived in the centre.

The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

My father died when I was 10; my sister got polio a couple of years later and was paralyzed. So there I was - my sister in a wheel chair, my father gone, and my mother a quiet little mouse. You see, it was the '30s in the South, so my mother was not prepared to cope. So I was scared to death. And being that scared, everything afterward became a struggle not to go down the drain. Struggling became a way of life for me.

If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

I think one of the first things to go as people's lives start to go down is their dreams. Dreams should be the last thing to go - dreams are the things you go down with. If you're left clinging to a piece of driftwood in the middle of the ocean, I'd put on it the word dreams.

You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.

There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will

We're in a crisis. We're in a crisis like I don't think America has ever known in my lifetime. But we have to keep joy in our lives, love in our lives, poetry in our lives, dancing in our lives.

I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

What I’m trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn’t throw anything at us that it knows we can’t handle—and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.

I think a lot of becoming an entrepreneur is something which people have to learn just from getting out there and giving it a go, and having to learn the art of survival.

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.

I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.

My father left me with a saying that I've carried my entire life and tried to pass on to our kids: 'Tough times don't last, tough people do,'

I think laughter comes because things are hardly working.

Life breaks us all, but you're stronger in the places that were broken. Or you can essentially crumble, give up, and, you know, waste your life.

I think any time you get beaten down and rise back up again, you become stronger.