Jesmyn Ward Quotes

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

No matter what hard thing you may go through or what kind of pain you may go through there is still hope.

Even in the most wretched life, there’s hope.

Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!.

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life's whiplash. People you love will disappoint you - and you will disappoint them. You'll probably struggle with some kind of mortal appetite. Some days it will feel as though the veil between Heaven and Earth is made of reinforced concrete.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

If you don't suffer, you don't get anything. Nothing easy in life.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world.

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

It is unnatural to deny effort, adversity, and pain.

The world isn't always great.

There's never any ebb in human misery.

I've been through the highs and lows. I know what it's like to taste defeat and it's not nice.

I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.

One of the things I'm learning is that crisis passes, and for anyone suffering I think it's important to know that.

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.