Chris Rock Quotes

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?

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation.

What I’m trying to get at is, as bad as everything seems, I think, at its heart, life is good. It doesn’t throw anything at us that it knows we can’t handle—and, even if it takes its time, it turns everything right side up again.

No matter how difficult life becomes, there is always hope.

Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.

Don't lose heart if it's very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

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

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

When things are difficult, smile by faith. Don't wait until you feel better.

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. If I don’t seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

In all circumstances, I always look for the light and build around it, with little memory of pain.

O soul, be patient: thou shalt find A little matter mend all this; Some strain of music to thy mind, Some praise for skill not spent amiss.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better

If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay.

Hope is a function of struggle.

Faith in the face of disappointment is only enhanced by laughter in the face of pain.

It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.

Man must be able to recover, to win out, triumph over adversity. And I don't mean just the little adversity like paying his room rent or something. But those deep, deep human adversities because something he has faith in has turned to ashes. Where someone he loves turns out to be just another joke. You get to the point of suicide. But you can bounce back - they can't completely destroy you.

In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing.

I think even if you haven't been divorced, you can hopefully relate to having to navigate through a really difficult time and see how you can get through to the other side and how you can stay positive, even if there's some really bad stuff happening.

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

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.