Adam Johnson Quotes

If you cannot solve it, it is not a problem - it is reality.

There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?

I tend not to worry about things I can't do anything about. It's not in my nature to spend too much time thinking.

If a problem can be solved it will be. If it can not be solved there is no use worrying about it.

There seemed nothing to do but live.

If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.

My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I cant do anything about.

As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen.

You can't solve a problem until you address the problem.

there is nothing to be done. only accept it... and hurt.

Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.

So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

Sadly, sadly, the sun rose; it rose upon no sadder sight than the man of good abilities and good emotions, incapable of their directed exercise, incapable of his own help and his own happiness, sensible of the blight on him, and resigning himself to let it eat him away.

I think that if one is faced by inevitable destruction -- if a house is falling upon you, for instance -- one must feel a great longing to sit down, close one's eyes and wait, come what may . . .

I'm not yet desperate enough to do anything about the conditions that are making me desperate.

Things just happen. What the hell.

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?

Some people are beyond help, just accept that.

When you have a problem, the first thing to do in addressing it is to honestly identify it.

There's no saving me.

When you're facing a difficult issue that you absolutely can do nothing about - I can't fly the plane; I can't change the weather - falling asleep, you'll either wake up and things will be fine or you won't.

We don't have to convince people how screwed they are.

Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.

he looked to her like an absurd twentieth-century Hamlet, an indecisive figure so mesmerized by onrushing tragedy that he was helpless to divert its course or alter it in any way.

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.