Flann O'Brien Quotes

I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.

As long as you don't fold up and curl up into a ball, you'll be all right.

When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not face--the moment when your life teeters between giving up and getting up--when that moment comes, and it always comes, if you can't get up and you can't give up either, here's what you do: Crawl.

God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it.

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

Black care rarely sits behind the rider whose pace is fast enough.

I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

It's so easy to be there when it's all sunshine, but it really takes strength and courage to be there for each other during the dark times.

When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.

Without a sense of humor, I would have been gone a long time ago.

I may have some things tougher than the average person, but there are a lot of people who are going through worse things than me. I can't live in fear.

I still don't love the darkness, though I've learned to smile in it a little bit, now and then.

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

Real life isn't always going to be perfect or go our way, but the recurring acknowledgement of what is working in our lives can help us not only to survive but surmount our difficulties.

If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

Life can be so difficult at times but fighting through the pain is so worth it.

Part of our good consists in the endeavor to do sorrows away, and in the power to sustain them when the endeavor fails,--to bear them nobly, and thus help others to bear them as well.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I suppose the best thing to do is to lay in a good store of jam!

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.