Paul Newman Quotes

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.

People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.

What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don't give up the ship, we have only begun to fight, it's always darkest before the dawn.

I have this thing I say to myself that 'tomorrow can be better.' And I remember that period in my life where I never felt like tomorrow could be better. It was always dread for the next day.

The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

Always in life bad times will lead to great times.

When you look on the bright side, you're acknowledging that there is a dark side at which you are choosing not to gaze. If you think that the darkest hour is before the dawn, you accept that you are moving from darkness to light.

The end of bad news is always good news.

Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.

There was a time I thought I'd never see the sun again.

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

When there's no light at the end of the tunnel, it's hard to keep things going.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud.

A world without hope, but no despair

Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.