Explore Quotes by Matthew Quick

If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.

You may exist in this world--but I exist too and I will not yield

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

You need to make time for family no matter what happens in your life.

I can always look up at the cosmos and marvel, no matter what happens. And when I look up at it, I feel as though my problems are small. I don't know why, but it always makes me feel better.

Someday an opportunity will come. Think about Harry Potter. His life is terrible, but then a letter arrives, he gets on a train, and everything is different for him afterward. Better. Magical." "That's just a story." "So are we- we're stories too.

You can lose yourself in repetition—quiet your thoughts; I learned the value of this at a very young age.

Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain - and so I am

In my arms is a woman who has given me a Skywatcher's Cloud Chart, a woman who knows all my secrets, a woman who knows just how messed up my mind is, how many pills I'm on, and yet she allows me to hold her anyway. There's something honest about all this, and I cannot imagine any other woman lying in the middle of a frozen soccer field with me - in the middle of a snowstorm even - impossibly hoping to see a single cloud break free of a nimbostratus.

Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one’s mind.

It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.

I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.

most people lose the ability to see silver linings or even though they are always there above us.