Sharon Creech Quotes

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

The end of bad news is always good news.

If I write a sad song, at the end it's gotta be like, 'Dude, things are looking up!'

I like to write from a slightly sad or complicated place. But with a sense of hope and happiness at the same time.

If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.

Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.

Who doesn't need hope in their lives: hope that something can change, that someone cares, that not only bad things happen unexpectedly but good things can happen to us too?

When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.

I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

I'm a generally optimistic person.

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Look, even bad years are pretty good years I think.

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.

Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

I think there will be more smiles when the smoke clears.

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

No matter what, I've always been an optimistic person.