Sue Townsend Quotes

I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment.

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

I now believe that there's only a certain amount of good luck in the world, and so if something good happens to me, that means something bad has to happen to somebody, somewhere.

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

In life, there's a ying and a yang and a balance. And when you don't have balance, you have comedy.

It sounds strange to say, but someone's bad luck is sometimes the happiness of the other.

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

Whatever happens - ultimately, life corrects itself.

Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.

It's funny how things work out sometimes.

Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction.

I'm the luckiest unlucky person.

And the Lord said: I burn down your cities - how blind you must be. I take from you your children, and you say how blessed are we. You all must be crazy to put your faith in me. That's why I love mankind.

There’s no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both...Life is glorious, but life is also wretched. It is both.

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.