Quotes About Hope In The Darkness

#1. And yet somehow that lodged in the mind as a crime beyond mercy. There will be no mercy for a song now silenced. No redemption for killing hope in the darkness. I know you. You

Terry Pratchett

#2. So give me hope in the darkness that I will see the light.

Mumford & Sons

#3. When the lows are so immense, victories are small. But they are there despite it. You just have to know them when you see them, little pockets of light and hope hidden away in darkness.

Cecelia Ahern

#4. She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I shall lead for the next six months. Oh, I could dance and sing for joy that the spring is here! What a ressurection of beauty there is in my garden, and of brightest hope in my heart.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#5. This is the currency of friendship, traded over years and miles, and I hope it's an even exchange someday. For now, I do what all best friends do when there's nothing left to say. We lie together in all the darkness, shoulder to shoulder, and wait for the worst to be over.

Emery Lord

#6. If you're facing a season of trials, don't allow the enemy to have a field day by putting negative thoughts in your mind. Let go of stinking thinking. Instead of turning away from God in anger or confusion, run into His loving arms where He will comfort you.

Dana Arcuri

#7. Oh my love! You are the light of love in the darkness. I am longing for you, you are my flower and freshness.

Debasish Mridha

#8. The charm is in waiting... The fragrance of a hope... The sublimity of a dream... The eloquence of a silence... The resplendence of darkness... The heat of winter... The cold of summer... The flashback of a memory... The unliving of a moment...

Avijeet Das

#9. have a dim half remembrance of long, anxious times of waiting and fearing, darkness in which there was not even the pain of hope to make present distress more poignant.

Bram Stoker

#10. Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day.

Kathleen Norris

#11. Like space, the soul is not an expression of eternal constancy but of constant change, and this motion has but one purpose: to continue forward, on the narrow ledge, in the absurd hope that you can escape the Darkness.

Erik Valeur

#12. Living in the moment works sometimes, but when alone, it clouds over your memories and dreams, and those are what I need to survive.

D.S. Mixell

#13. For the first time in an age, he saw the beauty of the stars, rather than the darkness between them.

Darren White

#14. The air is cold and dusk has descended. In the distance lightning flickers and a far away rumble of thunder awakens my thoughts and makes me remember.

Donna Lynn Hope

#15. I'd rather not know what lies ahead because I like the dark. I like thinking there is something good in the places I can't see. And that's not ignorance. That's just hope.

Caroline George

#16. Life goes on. The world spins out another day. The mystery of human life and hope goes on. And here and there, the luminous light that shone out from a carpenter in Nazareth glimmers and flickers in the darkness. And we hope again for what life might become. The soul waits.

John Ortberg

#17. In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.

Dean Koontz

#18. Hope was always hard to find in the darkness.

Dan Groat

#19. You are the light of love in darkness. I am longing for you, oh my love!

Debasish Mridha

#20. Your words and deeds are seeds, scattered in the wind ... the seeds are light or darkness ... they'll break apart or mend ... Sow light instead of gloom. Sow faith instead of doubt. Sow truth and love, and hope, and peace. Sow light and darkness rout.

Colleen Luntzel

#21. As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself Is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, There's one thing I wanna know: What's so funny 'bout Peace, Love, & Understanding?

Elvis Costello

#22. Our faith is built in the dark, in the valleys, and during the back-breaking battles in life.

Dana Arcuri

#23. Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.

Pope Benedict XVI

#24. Even in the middle of a hopeless darkness a light may suddenly reach you; keep your hope tightly and this great hope of yours will strongly attract the light onto you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. Iloved Ashley Hope Perez's heartbreaking Out of Darkness set in late the 1930s in a small town Texas. It should win all the YA awards.

Justine Larbalestier

#26. Part of the power of all storytelling is reassurance, offering hope to those sat in the darkness, that good can succeed and wrongdoing fail.

Charles Sturridge

#27. We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us

Paul McCartney

#28. In the darkness of night when universe sleeps
You come and play with my strings
No one can see or feel it but I do
You are my love.

Debasish Mridha

#29. Oh, the wondrous power in the scripture to create a soul of hope within the ribs of despair and bring eternal light into the darkness that has made a long midnight in the inmost soul!

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#30. I've always loved the hopeful nature of the romance genre. We can go to terrible places, dark places with our hero and heroine, explore wounds painful and old, because we know that there is hope even in the darkness.
(Interview with Read-A-Romance Month, 2013)

Nalini Singh

#31. Moon reveals it's beauty in darkness to illuminate the world with the light of love. When humanity suffers, let us be like the moon.

Debasish Mridha

#32. Some rumors said she was a demon from another world. Other rumors said she was death incarnate, someone to remind us of our misdeeds. But no one had said how beautiful she was. No one had mentioned her eyes. The ones that showed color only for a second. A hint of beauty in absolute blackness.

Shannon A. Thompson

#33. The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn't like a confidence and a promise.

John Berger

#34. waiting is our destiny. as creatures who cannot by themselves bring about what they hope for; we wait in the darkness for a flame we cannot light. we wait in fear for a happy ending that we cannot write. we wait for a 'not yet' that feels like a 'not ever.

Lewis B. Smedes

#35. In darkness, don't cry, wait for the star to appear.

Debasish Mridha

#36. There were times, in the beginning, when I used my journal as a wailing wall, but I learned not to immortalize the darkness. Rereading it was counterproductive. What I needed was a place in which to collect the light.

Phyllis Theroux

#37. Through the passage of my life I have learned, that the power of positive association is so much stronger than any amount of negativity in the world. No matter how dark it is, a tiny beam of light is all it takes to kill the darkest of darkness.

Asma Naqi

#38. In the darkness time, no human can save you, only the sacred divine light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#39. The Durhannians' countenance lifted as is the way of Hope. There was a village elder whose eyes flickered with the light of Understanding. We knew he would soon be able to illuminate paths in the darkness.

Laurie Green Westlake

#40. Darkness might keep flooding in, but I finally had just enough light to find the way back to myself.

Emery Lord

#41. In the darkness, don't doubt, blame or cry. Be the light to enlighten the whole sky.

Debasish Mridha

#42. In writing this book, I send out signals, like a lighthouse beacon in whose power to illuminate the darkness, alas, I have no faith. But I live in hope.

Patrick Modiano

#43. Then the coxswain called out, 'Ready all!' Joe turned and faced the rear of the boat, slid his seat forward, sank the white blade of his oar into the oil-black water, tensed his muscles, and waited for the command that would propel him forward into the glimmering darkness.

Daniel James Brown

#44. The very moment you begin to seek your Heavenly Father, in that moment, the hope of His light will begin to awaken, enliven, and ennoble your soul. The darkness may not dissipate all at once, but as surely as night always gives way to dawn, the light will come.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#45. What greater tragedy can there be than to lose hope forever and drift in the cold darkness of hopelessness?

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#46. Exile, like memory, may be a place of hope and delusion. But there are rules of light there and principles of darkness ... The expatriate is in search of a country, the exile in search of a self. - Eavan Boland, OBJECT LESSONS

Kathleen Norris

#47. When we are in the darkness, we begin to feel like we have always been there. But it is not true. David reminds himself that God has been faithful in the past; God will be faithful again. He urges himself to put his hope in God because the morning will come.

John Eldredge

#48. Be the light in darkness.

Debasish Mridha

#49. But she'd learned instead to hope in the one Beacon that would always be there, no matter what darkness came her way.

Jody Hedlund

#50. In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

Cat Stevens

#51. Life's markers are never just for one moment in time. Every event holds a key. Each builds upon the other and becomes an indicator towards a higher purpose.

Nikki Rosen

#52. When in darkness ... strike a match

John Paul Warren

#53. And so we gain hope - not from the darkness of our suffering, not from pat answers in books, but from the God who sees our suffering and shares our pain.

Eugene H. Peterson

#54. Hope is a little candle that continues to flicker in the heart in the darkest moments of impossibility.

Debasish Mridha

#55. Be not afraid to pray
to pray is right.
Pray, if thou canst, with hope; but ever pray,
Though hope be weak or sick with long delay;
Pray in the darkness, if there be no light.

Hartley Coleridge

#56. Live in faith and hope, though it be in darkness, for in this darkness God protects the soul. Cast your care upon God for you are His and He will not forget you. Do not think that He is leaving you alone, for that would be to wrong Him.

John Of The Cross

#57. Have no fear," the voice told her, "for in thee lies the hope of all. Only thou can deliver the land from darkness."
"How can I?" she asked. "I am just one against so many."
The eyes gleamed behind the dappling leaves. "Yet the smallest acorn may become the tallest oak," came the answer.

Robin Jarvis

#58. May your light shine in the darkness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#59. As I went through the city by day
I saw shadows in sunlight;
But in the night I saw everywhere
Stars within the darkness.

John Gould Fletcher

#60. In the darkest sky, stars hang on high; showing us the light of hope and telling us that dreams never die, don't see the darkness, wait for the morning sun.

Debasish Mridha

#61. Dad always told me there are more stories in the universe than stars in the sky. And in every story, there's the light of hope. That's why the seniors sent lanterns up to the sky-to make sure the darkness is never absolute.

Marieke Nijkamp

#62. All those before us have gone into the darkness without assurance of logic or fact or persuasive theory, with only a slender thread of hope or all too shakable convention of faith. And they have been able to sustain that slim hope in the face of darkness, then so must I.

Dan Simmons

#63. It takes great courage and determination, to keep looking for light in all the darkness of life.

Menna Van Praag

#64. War stories deal in death. War illuminates love, while love is the greatest expression of hope, without which any story rings untrue to life. And to deny hope in a story about such darkness is to create false art.

Richard Flanagan

#65. She had long been a cold and calculating person, and yet she had never given in to the darkness entirely. She would remember her mother's touch or the voice of a lost friend, and the tiniest bit of hope would return.

Patrick Carman

#66. With the first word I used intelligently, I learned to live, to think, to hope. Darkness cannot shut me in again. I have had a glimpse of the shore, and can now live by the hope of reaching it.

Hellen Keller

#67. A pessimist sees the darkness around the light, but an optimist looks for the light in the darkness.

Debasish Mridha

#68. Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#69. If you're feeling discouraged and defeated - don't quit. Play on, hope on, and move forward. The music you play - even in the midst of incredible darkness - can and will turn the tide of your own battles.

Seth Adam Smith

#70. I preach darkness. I don't inspire hope - only shadows. It's up to you to find the light in my words.

Charles Lee

#71. Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.

Henri Nouwen

#72. Hope is the light, trusted guide in darkness.

Debasish Mridha

#73. All of these are like sparks in the midnight sky, shedding their light on a world where even a flicker of hope shines like a beacon, illuminating the seas of darkness.

John A. Ashley

#74. Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again

David Clement-Davies

#75. Saving You
The darkness takes him over,
the sickness pulls him in;
his eyes - a blown out candle,
I wish to go with him.
Sometimes I see a flicker
a light that shone from them;
I hold him to me tightly,
before he's gone again.

Lang Leav

#76. In the darkness, be the light.

Debasish Mridha

#77. In proper men there is hidden a light which darkness makes visible. I believe that the hope of mankind is in this buried glory; the spirit which makes true men hang on to the throats of their enemies at the very rim of the grave.

Gerald Kersh

#78. Be helpful. When you see the darkness, be the light. When you feel the hatred, be the source of love. In the end love always win.

Debasish Mridha

#79. Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#80. Don't look for the ninety percent of the darkness in a person's soul. Look for the ten percent of light they have left, then lend them yours because light was meant to be shared.

Shannon L. Alder

#81. Love! In the midst of darkness, you're my guiding light.

Debasish Mridha

#82. When you embrace the darkness within, you will always live in the light.

Joseph D'Lacey

#83. There is always beauty to be found, even in the darkness.

Deanna Herrmann

#84. In my darkness, my pathway was marked by the brightness of light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#85. I am the hope of the universe. I am the answer to all living things that cry out for peace. I am protector of the innocent. I am the light in the darkness. I am truth. Ally to good! Nightmare to you!

Akira Toriyama

#86. When you see the sadness in life, be compassionate. When you see the darkness, become the light and be passionate.

Debasish Mridha

#87. I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the powers of darkness and ugliness. Malice, sir, is the spirit of criticism, and criticism marks the origin of progress and enlightenment.

Thomas Mann

#88. Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.

Diane Setterfield

#89. You're a light in the darkness, something to give people hope.

Trinity Faegen

#90. WE KNOW YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY DARKNESS ...
IN THE TERROR FOREST!
WE HOPE FOR MOONLIGHT!

Widad Akreyi

#91. I want to rekindle the inner fire that is burning in you. I want it to come out to take away the darkness.

Debasish Mridha

#92. There are no words in that fleeting moment between hope and the knowledge. There is no way to express how a heart can burst and break at the same time, how the sun can cut through the darkness but will case shadows everywhere.

Marieke Nijkamp

#93. May the sun come, it's a new day; In the pure land of fantasy; That our darkness enlightened

Miguel Torga

#94. Hope is your torch in the darkest hour.

Katie St. Claire

#95. Hope shines like a candle in the darkness. Keep the flame alive.

Debasish Mridha

#96. It's not enough to vanquish the darkness. True victory lies in spreading the light.

Sarah Brownlee

#97. In darkness, remember that the sun never forgets to rise with her morning smile.

Debasish Mridha

#98. Dark clouds outside are no match to the bright smiles of volunteers at the GK relief center. Hope shines brightest in darkness. Miracles of solidarity can help a nation walk on water.

Tony Meloto

#99. In those days of darkness don't despair or fear,
brighten the light of hope and desires with care.

Debasish Mridha

#100. We should abandon all hope when we are born. Happiness is a mere sparkle in the darkness.

Cristiane Serruya