Sarah Polley Quotes

So you're just moving along and suddenly you get this moment that breaks your ability to continue, and yet you continue. I wanted those kinds of moments. And initially people would say, "I don't think I have any." Their initial reaction was to render invisible those moments weaved into a kind of everydayness.

Write even when the world is chaotic.

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

Before something great happens, everything falls apart. Just hold on long enough to get through the smoke screen.

It's an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It's just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you've got, and move on.

The world is a grindstone and life is your nose

I’m telling you, trouble is like the ocean. It covers two thirds of the world.

No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.

I don't think about when it's going to stop and what you do before it stops. You just keep moving.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

Sometimes you have to understand that you push ahead, there's going to be a lot of flak, there's going to be a lot of dogs barking, but the wagon train moves ahead.

There's stuff going on in the world right now, which you can't imagine why is this happening; it's crazy. I don't know what the answer is, but if you didn't have faith in the universe that somehow something great would arrive at the end, then we'd all give up, and that would be a waste of everyone's time.

Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm.

The most successful people in the world are people who were rejected more than anybody else.

We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.

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

Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don't be deterred by obstacles.

Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.