After Darkness Comes Light Quotes

#1. After nearly a year of mourning, I feel like the Victorians when Edison came along- all those years in the darkness, and then electric light. I've got the earth between my toes.

Harriet Reuter Hapgood

#2. What is writing, after all, except fumbling in darkness endeavoring to light a candle?

Peggy Toney Horton

#3. Some goodness in this world is understood by the presence of the opposite. One will value light in the middle of darkness, and appreciate clemency by encountering savagery. Likewise, a meeting is properly indulged after having known the devastating account of goodbye.

Aishah Madadiy

#4. When he came back, he fed the fire, rolled out his pallet, turned off the light and laid down. After several minutes of quiet darkness, she heard his voice. "Sorry if I scared you. I don't roar that often."
-Ian to Marcie

Robyn Carr

#5. A bridge. A big bridge with lots of traffic. You can't be serious. I've almost killed us at least twice going up and down these crazy hilly roads!" I yelped with true fear in my quivering voice.

Elle Klass

#6. If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.

Steven Weinberg

#7. The quickest way for anyone to reach the sun and the light of day is not to run west, chasing after the setting sun, but to head east, plunging into the darkness until one comes to the sunrise.

Gerald L. Sittser

#8. First comes the day Then comes the night. After the darkness Shines through the light. The difference, they say, Is only made right By the resolving of gray Through refined Jedi sight. - Journal of the Whills, 7:477

Alan Dean Foster

#9. Maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us

Mary Oliver

#10. After a lifetime of darkness, I want to leave something behind that is made of light.

Marie Lu

#11. Yet, in the end, entropy will always emerge victorious, snuffing out the very last glimmer of heat and light. After that there is only darkness. When that state is reached even eternity will cease to exist, for one moment will be like every other and nothingness will claim the universe.

Peter F. Hamilton

#12. We're pretty because we forget how light leaves us--rather, we almost forgive the darkness that comes loping after.

Susanna Mishler

#13. Post Tenebras Lux. After Darkness, Light.

Paulo Coelho

#14. After darkness comes the light.

Cornelius Nepos

#15. Harmony will prevail. After darkness, there will be light. The light cannot come without the darkness. Better days are bound to come now.

Sook Nyul Choi

#16. I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.

Edi Gathegi

#17. After centuries of darkness
fish may lose their vision,
and happy in the still pool
will forget that light was once their day.

Barry Pomeroy

#18. I considered; my life was so wretched it must be changed, or I must die. After a season of darkness and struggling, light broke and relief fell. My cramped existence all at once spread out to a plain without bounds ...

Charlotte Bronte

#19. Every time it rains, it stops raining. Every time you hurt, you heal. After darkness, there is always light and you get reminded of this every morning but still you choose to believe that the night will last forever.

Pleasefindthis

#20. Cultivate balance. After all, there's no such thing as a shadow without the involvement of light.

Erica Alex

#21. She is close enough to me that I can see her, because even now there is the outward sign of visible light, even at night in this parking lot on the outskirts of Algoe. After we kiss, our foreheads touch as we stare at each other. Yes, I can see her almost perfectly in this cracked darkness.

John Green

#22. In the dark I rest,
unready for the light which dawns
day after day,
eager to be shared.
Black silk, shelter me.
I need
more of the night before I open
eyes and heart
to illumination. I must still
grow in the dark like a root
not ready, not ready at all.

Denise Levertov

#23. Am I doomed? Flashing darkness is pretty much the same as flashing light really. Fear isn't at all the same as courage but after a certain point perhaps being afraid of everything is the same as being afraid of nothing.

Russell Hoban

#24. We live surrounded by white images, and white in this world is synonymous with the good, light, beauty, success, so that, despite ourselves sometimes, we run after that whiteness and deny our darkness, which has been made into the symbol of all that is evil and inferior.

Paule Marshall

#25. Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don't see that the darkness has a purpose - though we may not understand it - and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house!

Margaret Weis

#26. Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?

Helen McCloy

#27. Never bet the devil your head.

Tom Cardamone

#28. You see, my love. As you've always said, after the rain-"
Sun."
After the darkness-"
Light."
And after the illness-"
Health."
Exactly," said the Tsar. "We mustn't give up faith.

Robert Alexander

#29. I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

Isaac Newton

#30. In darkness, in any light after dusk, you can slit a vein and the blood is black.

Michael Ondaatje

#31. I'll never forget Jonah's face. A light poured out of him and became the spirit of the room, like a genie released from a bottle after centuries of darkness.

Natalie Standiford

#32. But you must know that only he who fights the darkness within will the day after tomorrow have his own share in the sun.

Odysseus Elytis

#33. As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors.

Miguel Serrano