Jim Butcher Quotes

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.

Taking action is hard, but know what? Enduring a bad situation can be its own hell.

It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.

Though it is folly to suppose that happiness is a matter of volition, and that we can make ourselves content and cheerful whenever we choose - a theory that many poor hypochondriacs are taunted with till they are nigh driven mad - yet, on the other hand, no sane mind is ever left without the power of self-discipline and self-control in a measure, which measure increases in proportion as it is exercised.

One has to handle these negative experiences alone.You can't get help from your friends or family.You're finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.

If you're gonna be stupid you gotta be tough.

Back in my day, which was about a week and a half ago, we took our lumps and we got back up and we cried like babies and quit and then put on weight.

If you have something to get off of your chest, there is a proper way to do it. Everybody has a bad day, and, for some people, you're under a microscope and you have to deal with the consequences of having a bad day in front of people. But everyone has them.

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

There are worse things than being mad.

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

If Life is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?

It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

Quick beleevers neede broad shoulders.

It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.