Jasper Fforde Quotes

Life isn't always easy, but it's simple.

Life isn't all beer and skittles; few of us have touched a skittle in years.

I been through some junk. It ain't all been peaches and cream.

Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times.

You've to celebrate the good days because there are brutal days that make the good ones sweet.

Instead of letting the hard times get me down, I've learned to keep going at to look for the hidden good.

Whether you're a man or a woman, life can be very, very difficult and confusing and desperate, and it's life-enhancing to know that somehow, there is a way through it.

'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

Griefs upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding.

The Universe loves grateful people. The more grateful you are, the more you get to be grateful about. It's that simple. Life is really that simple. We make it enormously complicated, but it doesn't have to be.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

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

Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.

Living isn't a simple thing...no one said it's supposed to be.

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

The game is an analogy for life: there are not enough chairs or good times to go around, not enough food, not enough joy, nor beds nor jobs nor laughs nor friends nor smiles nor money nor clean air to breathe...and yet the music goes on.

In my Corgan brain, I've decided it's almost as simple as 'All you need is love.' Almost.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.

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

With right attitude, life is very simple and very easy.

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.