Bernard Williams Quotes

Don't struggle about the struggle. In other words, life's full of ups and downs. So if you're struggling, don't worry, everyone else has or will at some point.

Some days are harder than others, just like anything.

People go through so much in life - financially, physically, mentally, and emotionally. So I don't look at the ups and downs as anything but a negligible area.

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

You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.

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.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that 'Waste Land' was too much of a downer. For me, 'The Crash Reel' confronts what the film is about: it's not just about the reality of a crash, it's about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

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.

When life hits you pretty hard, you can go into a dark corner.

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you going to do with those bad times? Are you just going to let them gnaw at you?

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.

The only way to make it through life is to fight.

You've got to go through some good times and some bad times, and hopefully you're able to recover from the bad times.

Life's not always going to be bells and whistles.

I've been 0-10, I've been in sucky situations.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

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.

I'm the same person. I got a grenade thrown at me. Situation turned out how it did. Now I'm just trying to do good things.

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.

I've had many ups and downs before, and I think it's always darkest before dawn.