Gerard Way Quotes

I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust.

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.

The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.

Yes, it feels great to plan your life when you believe everything can turn out fine. But what about when you're shown, again and again, how little control you have over anything? No matter what I do to try to fix my future, it doesn't work.

Even people capable of living in the past don't really know what the future holds.

Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.

The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.

There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.

Progress is not a straight line; the future is not a mere projection of trends in the present. Rather, it is revolutionary. It overturns the conventional wisdom of the present, which often conceals or ignores the clues to the future.

The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.

That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.

The cares of today are seldom those of tomorrow, and when we lie down at night we may safely say to most of our troubles, "Ye have done your worst, and we shall see you no more."

I always expect unexpected challenges.

If you want to be your own master ... always be surprised by evil; never anticipate it.

If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.

I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

They are saying that if life has a structure, a staff, a sensible scaffold, we hang our nonsense on it. And they are saying that broken parts add color and music to the staff of life.

Wrapt up in error is the human mind, And human bliss is ever insecure; Know we what fortune yet remains behind? Know we how long the present shall endure?

Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.

Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug.

I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices.

Because the results are unpredictable, no effort of mine is doomed to failure.

I always tried to live up to Leo Szilard's commandment, "don't lie if you don't have to." I had to. I filled up pages with words and plans I knew I would not follow. When I go home from my laboratory in the late afternoon, I often do not know what I am going to do the next day. I expect to think that up during the night. How could I tell them what I would do a year hence?

Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.

Changes before your eyes, things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always let it keep rolling.