Worst Times Quotes

• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Time, Cities

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

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• I’ve already lived through the worst time of my life. So I know that whatever happens to me from now on, nothing will ever be as bad as it was back then. That makes me happy.

  Susane Colasanti

  Make Me Happy, Whatever Happens, Time Of My Life

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.96, Penguin

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• Sometimes life has a cruel sense of humor, giving you the thing you always wanted at the worst time possible.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Heartbreak, Fate, Giving

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.549, St. Martin's Press

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• The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

  Janis Ian

  Years, Get Better, May

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• Don't be afraid of your worst times. If you learn from them, you'll look back on them as the best times.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Looks, Best Times, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 19, 2012

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• It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.

  Charles Dickens

  Spring, Communication, Winter

  A Tale of Two Cities bk. 1, ch. 1 (1859)

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• The worst time is always the present.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Worst

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• Even in the worst time of life, if you are still breathing, that means you are still alive. If you are still here, you haven't accomplished what is still to be accomplished. The most important part of your life is still ahead of you.

  Andy Andrews

  Mean, Breathing, Important

  "An interview with best-selling author Andy Andrews". Interview with Carolyn Mason, www.tuscaloosanews.com. June 6, 2010.

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• the worst times come to an end if you can only wait long enough.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Long, Waiting, Trouble

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• Wakings are the worst times--almost before my eyes are open a great weight seems to roll on my heart.

  Dodie Smith

  Heart, Eye, Weight

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.264, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Looking back at the worst times, it always seems that they were times in which there were people who believed with absolute faith and absolute dogmatism in something. And they were so serious in this matter that they insisted that the rest of the world agree with them. And then they would do things that were directly inconsistent with their own beliefs in order to maintain that what they said was true.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Order, People, World

  Richard P. Feynman (2009). “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.

  Bo Burnham

  Thinking, Laughing, Laughed

  Source: thelatest.co.uk

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• It's hard to believe, but anything can happen. Accidents do happen, unfortunately, it happened at the worst time.

  Tiger Woods

  Believe, Anything Can Happen, Happened

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• Everyone has a worst time in their life. There's always a worse time. We are all either in a crisis, coming to one or coming out of one.

  Andy Andrews

  Coming Out, Crisis, Worst

  "An interview with best-selling author Andy Andrews". Interview with Carolyn Mason, www.tuscaloosanews.com. June 6, 2010.

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• A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

  T. S. Eliot

  Time, Winter, Journey

  "Journey of the Magi" l. 1 (1927)

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• Lying in bed just before going to sleep is the worst time for organized thinking; it is the best time for free thinking. Ideas drift like clouds in an undecided breeze, taking first this direction and then that.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Inspirational, Lying, Sleep

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.58, Pushkin Press

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• Youth must be the worst time in anybody's life. Everything's happening for the first time, which means that sorrow, then, lasts forever. Later, you can see that there was something very beautiful in it. That's because you ain't got to go through it no more.

  James A. Baldwin

  Beautiful, Mean, Forever

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• The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of devout faith, who have some psychological healing to lean up against, and gorgeous lives. All writers think that this time, the jig is up, and they will be exposed as frauds.

  Anne Lamott

  Healing, Thinking, Two

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• I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.

  William Saroyan

  Laughing, People, Upset

  William Saroyan (1976). “Sons come and go, mothers hang in forever”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I think the English are bipolar. 'We're the greatest, no we're terrible' - that's a constant English struggle. Crime is down, there's little poverty - yet it's always the worst time to have lived here.

  Dara O Briain

  Funny, Struggle, Thinking

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• The Sixties, of course, was the worst time in the world to try and bring up a child. They were exposed to all these crazy things going on.

  Nancy Reagan

  Children, Crazy, Trying

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• The idea of a company that's earning money, not losing money, that's not, let's say 'industrially endangered,' to have just cutbacks so they can earn another $12 million or $20 million or $40 million in a year where no one's counting is really a horrible act when you think about it on every level. First of all, it's certainly not necessary. It's doing it at the worst time. It's throwing people out to a larger, what is inevitably a larger unemployment heap for frankly no good reason.

  Barry Diller

  Thinking, Ideas, Years

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• I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when i first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

  Salma Hayek

  Mexican, Firsts, Directors

  "Salma Hayek: I Was An Illegal Immigrant". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2010.

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• Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.

  Emo Philips

  Good Day, Devil, Life Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When we are at the worst times of our lives, when we are battling with something, or struggles, whatever it may be, when we are at our highest point as well, when things are going really well, we want somebody to comfort us and be there for us and to say, 'Well done.' That's Jesus!

  Russell Wilson

  Jesus, Struggle, Want

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