Neil Gaiman Quotes

There's only two choices when life goes wrong. You deal with it, or you check out, and, like 90% of people, I go for the former.

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

Sometimes things don't go exactly as you'd wish. You have to be mentally strong to overcome those moments.

That's been the story of my life - obstacles: trying to figure a way over them, around them, under them; sometimes you have to go straight through them.

Life's about dealing with adversity and solving problems.

When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician -- make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by a mutated boa constrictor -- make good art. IRS on your trail -- make good art. Cat exploded -- make good art. Someone on the Internet thinks what you're doing is stupid or evil or it's all been done before -- make good art.

In life there are worse things (then being fired by the Miami Marlins) and I have experienced them. I have lived through bad moments and I will get through this with support.

I always believe if you're stuck in a hole and maybe things aren't going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.

Now, no matter what background you come from, there is nobody in this world who can say that their life is without troubles. Everybody faces problems at some point in their life. All that matters is how you deal with it.

I think life has a way of kicking you in the pants too, but you have to pick up and move ahead, and it certainly helps if you have a good partner in life.

There are so many things that can happen to us in life where you think, 'I can't cope. I can't deal with it,' but you probably can.

I don't want to live my life to necessarily overcome struggle, but when I am going to hit struggle throughout my life, I face it head on.

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

If you let tragedies stop you along the way, then you're never going to grow as a person.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.

make away out of no way

You have to hold on to what you find because life has a way of throwing you curve balls that you never expect.

when times are tough, the weak bail and the tough get creative.

I'm not going to wallow in self-pity and not live my life. There are always going to be some falls in life for everybody, no matter what career you have. You have to roll with the punches and keep going.

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

Whenever we are inclined to feel burdened down with the blows of life, let us remember that others have passed the same way, have endured, and then have overcome.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.