Tim Finn Quotes

What I learned for myself... is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive.

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

Courage! Suffering, when it climbs highest, lasts not long.

If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.

No pain will last forever. It is not easy, but life was never meant to be either easy or fair. Repentance and the lasting hope that forgiveness brings will always be worth the effort.

I surprise myself that I'm not dead in the gutter somewhere, surprised that I haven't given up.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live. We shall endure

All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.

You'll get through this. It won't be painless. It won't be quick. But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naïve. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

No matter how painful your past has been, you have made it through.

We need hope, or else we cannot endure.

I hope that people take away hope, maybe not in an obvious sense, but in the form of hearing somebody who's genuinely fighting to stay above water. And in that fight, there's hope. In that fight, maybe there's positivity.

I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge - even wisdom. Like art.

It's the hope for all the hopeless in the worst of trying times.

Nobody seemed to have any perspective any longer. Those were low points. But we got through it.

When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.