Srikumar Rao Quotes

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light.

I have this thing I say to myself that 'tomorrow can be better.' And I remember that period in my life where I never felt like tomorrow could be better. It was always dread for the next day.

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what's around the corner. Mercifully, what's around the corner is joy.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.

No matter the amount of negativity you're presented with, five minutes from now could be your best moment.

I'm drawn to the dark but not the nihilistic aspects, the relentless parts, of darkness.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Newman's second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.

With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

There's a certain darkness to Slipknot, but at the same time, there's a very strong dose of positivity. Stone Sour is the same way. There's a certain melancholy that comes with the slower stuff, but at the end of the day there's also that other side that is very positive. It's all how you deliver.

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.