Lily Tomlin Quotes

You may never know when things start to go bad, but when things are worse you know it.

It could become much worse.

I kicked off... and things went on from there... down and down.

ʺThings are going to get worse before they get better, arenʹt they?ʺ

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

I went through a really low period about 13 years ago, when all aspects of my career and everything went completely wrong.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

There have been many moments over the last year when I thought it was all over.

Nations in great crises and difficulties have often done that which in their prosperous and powerful hour they would not have done.

Desperate times make for desperate songs.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can.

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

Desperation will allow you to do incredible things in the name of survival.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

The future for Commander Tool Belt was not looking so hot.

Things are going downhill with you!' he said to himself, and laughed about it, and as he was saying it, he happened to glance at the river, and he also saw the river going downhill, always moving on downhill, and singing and being happy through it all.

It is at moments of need that one learns who one's friends are. Defeated armies learn their lesson.

Success has ruin'd many a man.

When God closes one door, He slams another in your face

A friend told me 'I guess you gotta go through a lot of nightmares, before you finally, you know, accomplish your dreams.

I am just at tragedy right now.

An existence transfigured by failure.

I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We think life should be a nice, clean ascending line. But inevitably something wanders onto the scene and creates havoc with the nice way we've arranged life to fall in place.

Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days ahead.

...It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.