Worst Times Quotes:

The worst time is always the present.

- Jean de La Fontaine

topic: Worst Times, Worst

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

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

topic: Worst Times, Make Me Happy, Whatever Happens, Time Of My Life

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

- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

topic: Long, Waiting, Worst Times

If you look at your circumstances you will put off doing what God is telling you to do. It can seem like the worst time to do whatever God says to do. BUT there is an anointing on "now" if God has told you to act.

- Joyce Meyer

source: Joyce Meyer (2008). “Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing”, p.48, Hachette UK

topic: Worst Times, Looks, Anointing

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

source: Source: thelatest.co.uk

topic: Thinking, Laughing, Worst Times

I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine.

- Elizabeth Gaskell

source: Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1310, Delphi Classics

topic: Worst Times, Calling, Grew

One of the things you don't have in Haiti is you don't have anybody on crack doing something completely out of - that's unpredictable. Even at the worst times in Haiti, the violence that had happened, the lack of security that happened, was largely predictable because it was politically tied.

- Sean Penn

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Cracks, Worst Times, Haiti

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

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

topic: Spring, Winter, Light, Incredulity, Great Literature

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

- Lisa Kleypas

source: 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

topic: Heartbreak, Fate, Giving, Sugar Daddy, Worst Times

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

source: "Yanni: A Global Inspiration". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

topic: Years, Get Better, May, Worst Times

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

source: FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 19, 2012

topic: Looks, Worst, Worst Times

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

topic: Mean, Breathing, Important, Worst Times

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

- Dodie Smith

topic: Heart, Eye, Weight, Worst Times

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

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

topic: Order, People, World, Dogmatism, Worst Times

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

- Tiger Woods

topic: Believe, Worst, Anything Can Happen, Worst Times, Hard To Believe

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

topic: Coming Out, Crisis, Worst, Worst Times

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

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

topic: Time, Winter, Journey, Long Journey, Worst Times

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

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

topic: Lying, Sleep, Thinking, Worst Times, Undecided

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

topic: Beautiful, Mean, Forever, Worst Times

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

topic: Healing, Thinking, Two, Worst Times

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

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

topic: Laughing, People, Upset, Worst Times

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

topic: Funny, Struggle, Thinking, Worst Times

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

topic: Children, Crazy, Trying, Crazy Things, Worst Times

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

topic: Thinking, Years, Ideas, Losing Money, Worst Times

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

topic: Mexican, Directors, Hollywood, Worst Times

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

topic: Good Day, Devil, Life Is, Worst Times

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

topic: Jesus, Struggle, Done, Worst Times

The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.

- Demetri Martin

source: "Why Demetri Martin's new show is an Important Thing not to miss" by Will Dean, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2009.

topic: Im Sorry, Heart, Games, Worst Times, Heart Attack

Ram Dass

- Ram Dass

source: Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.80, Sounds True

topic: Art, Pain, Unbearable, Transcending, Quaker

Summer is the worst time of all to be alone. The earth is warm and lovely, free to go about in; and always somewhere in the distance there is a place where two people might be happy if only they were together. It is in the spring that one dreams of such places; one thinks of the summer which is coming, and the heart dreams of its friend.

- Robert Nathan

topic: Summer, Dream, Distance, Worst Times

Every day, no matter what is happening around me, I consciously try to discipline my own feelings and my mind about what I have to be grateful for, because by any stretch of the imagination - even during the worst times when people are accusing me of things and doing all that they do - I'm a very lucky person.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Grateful, Accusing Me, Discipline, Lucky Person, Worst Times

If women are doing a Ph.D., they have a conflict between raising a family or finishing the degree, which is just at the worst time - between the ages of 25 to 30 or whatever it is. It ruins the five years of their lives.

- Freeman Dyson

source: "Legendary physicist Freeman Dyson talks about math, nuclear rockets, and astounding things about the universe". Interview with Elena Holodny, uk.businessinsider.com. January 3, 2018.

topic: Years, Age, Finishing, Worst Times, Raising A Family

The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.

- Anthony Horowitz

source: Anthony Horowitz (2006). “Point Blank”, p.12, Penguin

topic: Crowds, Worst, Feels, Worst Times

Being in Nirvana was amazing an experience that will never happen again for me. And I look on them as some of the best and worst times of my life.

- Dave Grohl

topic: Looks, Worst, Time Of My Life, Disbanded, Foo Fighters

I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.

- Laura Benanti

topic: Rap, Thinking, Musical, Worst Times, Musical Theater

To the Virgins, To Make much of Time Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he is to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while you may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.

- Robert Herrick

source: 'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'

topic: Running, Flower, Race, Old Time, Worst Times

In middle school, we are all so damn insecure. It was the worst time for me, really destructive, like slapping myself across the face but loving it. Now I have to be an adult and change myself. I have to be a bigger person.

- Nikki Reed

topic: School, Insecure, Faces, Worst Times, Bigger Person

I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us!

- Garth Stein

topic: Zebras, Fear, Self, Worst Times

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time...

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Strange, Comic, Young, Worst Times

I went to Catholic school my entire life. Elementary school was probably my worst time - those are the years when you're figurin' out who you are, and then you've got the added pressure of being on the light-skinned side of things. I've been around - excuse me saying - predominantly white people in Catholic school, who sit around and just talk about black people because they thought they were in the presence of themselves, and they used to talk cool. I felt firsthand the racial prejudice that is still alive today.

- Kevin michael

source: Source: www.djbooth.net

topic: School, Light, Years, Racial Prejudice, Worst Times

A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in.

- Lancelot Andrewes

source: Of the Nativity sermon 15 (1622) See T. S. Eliot 68

topic: Journey, Years, Long, Long Journey, Worst Times

This is the worst time to miss a bill. Pay down any large credit card or other large revolving accounts if you can, because high balances will hurt your credit rating. And avoid opening any other accounts before the loan you're pursuing is closed.

- Craig Watts

topic: Hurt, Missing, Balance, Credit Card, Worst Times