Will Rogers Quotes

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.

ʺThings are going to get worse before they get better, arenʹt they?ʺ

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.

Judging by my degradation in the last 24 hours, I'll be surprised if I make it to Tuesday.

It could become much worse.

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a direction that you think or they think or you've been told it's supposed to be moving in.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

Everything I have done has been wasted. In another 20 years France will be dead.

I have never yet seen the time in which our affairs, in my opinion, were at so low an ebb as at the present.

Depend upon it, Sir, nothing will come of them!

I'd like to say things are bound to get better, but I don't really believe it.

You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.

I just don't have a lick of optimism left in me.

In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.

Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.

When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"?

As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement.

I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

I hope we're not just human garbage drifting toward a big sewer. But I think so.

Everywhere I looked life seemed to be full of problems and they were just going to go on and on. It was never going to get any better.