Tom Stoppard Quotes

The only comfort within chaos is admitting you have no control.

I don't have any expectations.

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

I've ceased making predictions on things because we'll see how they turn out.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred.

I don't even believe in hope. I just let it happen.

I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it.

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

It's much too late to save myself from falling.

Things just happen. What the hell.

I have no expectations. None at all.

For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while, in truth, thanks to our unwearied efforts, it is as sunny an arrangement of small conveniences as the mind of man can conceive.

Life being what it is, one dreams not of revenge. One just dreams.

-….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.

Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.

I really think positive and hope that everything works out. Because you can't really change anything.

I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping.

I have hope. I have no expectations.

There will be an answer. Let it be.

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

...Sometimes I suspect that what had really happened was that we became more resigned, more cynical, raised our pain thresholds as we lowered our expectations. All in all, settled for less.

I'm never gonna stop the rain by complainin'.

Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case, she tells her mentor, "It shouldn't be like this." Her mentor replies, "There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do.