Top 100 The Tunnel Quotes
#1. There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.
David Allen
#2. We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We just need to keep battling. We're a team that has stuck together through the good times and the bad times. Our reward is near.
Aaron Rowand
#3. By focusing on possibilities, you can see more than a potential light at the end of the tunnel. The light doesn't have to be at the end of the tunnel; it can illuminate an opportunity wherever you are.
John B. Arden
#4. Hope is the light at the end of the tunnel guiding the way.
Serena Smith
#5. Angels should never be exposed to the dire darkness of despair in the tunnel of cosmic nothingness, and although I never believed such maddening thoughts; I couldn't help but feel spiritual in her presence.
Bruce Crown
#6. Learn from this, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Hell does have an exit, and I found it. For those who are still looking for a way out, I left the door open and I'll be waiting for whoever wants to grow with me.
Kid Cudi
#7. Wait a second," I said. "If we're worried about an attack, why not just blow up the entrance? Seal the tunnel?" "Great idea!" Grover said. "I'll get the dynamite!
Rick Riordan
#8. To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train.
Joan Rivers
#9. I have always believed that the light at the end of the tunnel is not an illusion; the illusion is the tunnel itself.
Sam Harris
#10. If there was a light at the end of the tunnel, the flickering bulb above my head wasn't it. The faces of my tormentors were no angels - they were hell's minions and I'd stepped into their purgatory.
Susan Illene
#11. You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel
Thomas E. Sniegoski
#12. It's easier to have courage and trust the process when you feel you're making headway. Mastery is not persistence when you see a light at the end of the tunnel. True mastery is persistence when you don't yet see the light.
James Arthur Ray
#13. There was no light at the end of the tunnel
or if there was, it was an oncoming train.
Terry Pratchett
#14. Austin had a concussion tonight. That's the way it goes for us. We get one back, we lose one. Or lose two. We've had the most difficult time the last two years just keeping a full roster. Hopefully at some point at the end of the tunnel some good things can happen for the Indiana Pacers.
Jermaine O'Neal
#15. The Cat: When the wine drinks itself, when the skull speaks, when the clock strikes the right time, only then will you find the tunnel that leads to the Red Bull. There be a trick to it, of course.
Peter S. Beagle
#16. If you see the light at the end
of the tunnel, you're looking
through binoculars the wrong
way
Josh Stern
#17. It was definitely some tough moments throughout my life, but I kind of stayed focused and came through the other end of the tunnel.
Victor Cruz
#18. [The Lord] does go with us through our sufferings, and He awaits us as we emerge on the other side of the tunnel of testing - into the light of His glorious presence to live with Him forever!
Billy Graham
#19. The tunnel is lit at long intervals, so in the dark space between each dim lamp, I fear that I am lost until a shoulder bumps mine. In the circles of light I am safe again.
Veronica Roth
#20. just because there was a light at the end of the tunnel, it didn't mean it was something to be desired. Not the way Mary saw it. Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.
Anonymous
#21. I still wanted to go home, but had to enter the tunnel and pray for the best. Every day, I discovered more disadvantages to being a strong woman, although the past week made me feel like Hercules in a burkha.
-Grace Madison, PhD
N.L.B. Horton
#22. You think you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, but it's only some bugger with a torch bringing you more work.
David Brent
#23. Some days are better than others ... It's been a long journey, but we're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel now.
Brian Robertson
#24. Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.
Emir Kusturica
#25. It's tricky to ask a filmmaker to explain his own work; usually we're the least qualified to make sense of what we've done, unfortunately, because of the tunnel vision required to create anything over four years.
Stephen Gaghan
#26. The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.
Joss Whedon
#27. I would never see him again.
But as I watched the tunnel race before my eyes, I was certain of one thing: I did trust him.
Now I had only to trust in myself.
Samantha Shannon
#28. There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.
John Podhoretz
#29. I run through the dark entry corridor toward the light on the other end, wondering if this is a birth canal or the tunnel to Heaven. Am I coming or going? Either way, it's too late to reverse. Hidden in the gloom under a red evening sky, I step into the world of the Living.
Isaac Marion
#31. I am walking down to the oak tree. And
I see that the tunnel is slightly wet, but
I jump in
and walk
slowly
through the lava tube.
It is fairly dark, but I see in the far distance,
like a pinhead,
a light.
Sort of yellowish, actually.
Sandra Harner
#32. The light at the end of the tunnel is another train heading straight for you.
Joey Green
#33. Is there a chance?
A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel?
A reason to fight?
Is there a chance you may change your mind?
Or are we ashes and wine?
A Fine Frenzy
#34. Humor is unavoidable. It might not feel funny in the moment, but more often than not there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
Ron Howard
#35. After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner.
Bob Beauprez
#36. Against all odds and despite all evidence to the contrary, still we trust that there will be a light at the end of the tunnel, of our personal tunnel anyway.
Diane Schoemperlen
#37. No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things.
Demi Lovato
#39. There is absolutely, 100 percent, a light at the end of the tunnel for anyone who stutters.
Emily Blunt
#40. The light at the end of the tunnel is for those who believe that there is an existence of light.
Coleen Innis
#41. I see the light at the end of the tunnel, so I'm going hard.
Cam Newton
#42. The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming.
James Arthur Ray
#43. I wish I had covered all my tracks completely cause I'm so afraid
Is that the light at the far end of the tunnel or just the train?
Owl City
#44. I would have to go into the tunnel whether I wanted to or not - the tunnel was the road of going on, and there was more of the road on the other side of it - but the entrance was where [my teacher] had to stop. Inside the tunnel was what I was meant to learn
Margaret Atwood
#45. The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.
Robert Lowell
#46. There's a light at the end of the tunnel. And it's a train.
Margaret Smith
#47. If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
Barry Commoner
#48. after we cleared the tunnel at Treasure Island, a panicky
James Patterson
#49. Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
Ian Botham
#50. I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my face. Not caring if I saw downtown. Not even thinking about it. Because I was standing in the tunnel. And I was really there. And that was enough to make me feel infinite.
Stephen Chbosky
#51. Roan looked at Paris and wondered where they would go from here and if there would be any light at the end of the tunnel before it collapsed on top of them. Too bad there was really no such thing as a happy ending.
Andrea Speed
#52. I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.
Stuart Pearce
#53. Because I'm a Thunderclan cat like you," she replied, ad darker shadow in the darkness of the tunnel. "My name is Hollyleaf
Erin Hunter
#54. Behind us I saw the water, still welling up from the tunnel, curving round in a frothing serpentine torrent to plunge down the other descending passage. For a moment we all sat there and watched, numb and exhausted.
Kenneth Oppel
#55. They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.
Eoin Colfer
#56. It took teams of LEP warlocks to slow down time for a few hours; the magic required to open a door to the tunnel was stupendous. It would be easier to shoot down the moon.
Opal tapped this into her notepad.
Reminder. Shoot down the moon? Viable?
Eoin Colfer
#57. The eight-acre underground was so sprawling that for months after the park first opened, guides had to be stationed in the tunnels to redirect lost employees. Soon after, the tunnel walls were color-coded by land and maps were posted at each intersection to help newcomers find their way.
David Koenig
#58. I tell you, truth is, at this moment, here
burning outward through our skins.
Eternity streams through my body:
touch it with your hand and see.
Till the walls of the tunnel cave in
and the black river walks on our faces.
Adrienne Rich
#59. I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.
Ryne Sandberg
#60. He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.
Terry Pratchett
#61. I tried to shake some water off. "I got a message from Angel,"i said, scanning the tunnel."She says there's massive danger down here,something too big for us to fix or deal with."
"So of course you immediately came down.
James Patterson
#62. Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel.
Don Rickles
#63. It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#64. For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the caves and promontories of his mind long before they darted through the tunnel of his mouth.
Zora Neale Hurston
#65. Django: "Would you buy it if I told you that it's always darkest before the dawn? Or that there's a light at the end of the tunnel? Course there's always a possibility that it's an oncoming train. But still.
Zoey Dean
#66. Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it
Seth Godin
#67. For me, as I began to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I became aware of how on an instinctive level I made choices to cover myself.
Rene Auberjonois
#68. The odds are six to five that the light in the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.
Paul Dickson
#69. He will protect me if it is his will. It is not up to me whether I live or die. Either way, Heaven is what'll wait for me - the light at the end of the tunnel.
K. Weikel
#70. Mr. Baggins was still officially their expert burglar and investigator. If he liked to risk a light, that was his affair. They would wait in the tunnel for his report.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#71. If there isn't a light at the end of the tunnel, don't go down the tunnel.
Sydney Wilhelmy
#72. Remember, the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.
Aerosmith
#73. F we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.
Robert Lowell
#74. You think you want the blue skies, the open road, but really you want the tunnel, you want to know how the story ends.
Jenny Offill
#75. You should never just do something because it's what others expect of you. You have to go out there, find your own voice and forge your own path. It's too easy to walk through the tunnel that's already been dug.
Jim Sullos
#76. As a matter of fact, there is still a lot of light at the end of the tunnel. We just have to find a way to get to it.
Tyrone Willingham
#77. The only way to see the light at the end of the tunnel was to crawl through the mud in darkness.
Rachel Reiland
#78. Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train.
Darynda Jones
#79. Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment on this one for now.
Phil Cornwell
#80. The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.
David Lee Roth
#81. Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn't the tunnel we pass through that matters, it's what emerges on the other side.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#82. They roared into the Lincoln Tunnel. A wild, inexplicable excitement mounted in Therese as she stared through the windshield. She wished the tunnel might cave in and kill them both, that their bodies might be dragged out together. She felt Carol glancing at her from time to time.
Patricia Highsmith
#83. The trains that travel the Chunnel are massive machines. The Eurostars are bullet-shaped and a quarter-mile long. They are pulled by a 136,000-pound locomotive and move in the open air at 185 m.p.h. and through the tunnel at 100 m.p.h.
Peter Landesman
#84. Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#85. The reward is the finished product, for me that is my light at the end of the tunnel. What comes together in the end is why I do this [shoot commercials], it's why I write so many ideas and spend so much time thinking of ideas and so on and so forth.
Jon Jon Augustavo
#86. If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want
Ashok Kallarakkal
#87. Has anyone sen Mr Snark "
"I saw him in the tunnel about 15 minutes ago."
"Oh no " wailed Dr Ferman "he will have been atomised."
"Oh dear" muttered an MP. "Bye-election.
Alexander McCall Smith
#88. There had to be light at the end of the tunnel and she prayed that she and her daughters would find it soon.
Valenciya Lyons
#89. Sometimes, I stood at the front of the E train, watching the tunnel ahead, imagining what Anthem would look like on stage.
Jeff Britting
#90. Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams, fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.
Pablo Neruda
#91. Don't wait for a light to appear at the end of the tunnel, stride down there and light the bloody thing yourself.
Sara Henderson
#92. Some actors couldn't figure out how to withstand the constant rejection. They couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Harrison Ford
#93. But when you're sad and the walls feel like they're closing in, I want you to remember that the only way to get out of the tunnel is through it.
Joelle Charbonneau
#94. He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#95. There are many people that can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. They have feelings of hopelessness and feel like they don't have any purpose on this Earth. Some of them feel like death is the only option they have. I know because I felt that way.
Jason Peter
#96. Her light shines through the tunnel to my heart, clenching every pulsing beat with radiance and luminosity.
Renee Ericson
#97. Till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning-point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly, it did not seem of any use at the moment.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#98. With the expression of one who knows that the light at the end of the tunnel is an oncoming train.
Terry Pratchett
#99. We can see the light but we are still inside the tunnel, ... We have not been able to get to all the communities.
Pablo Picasso
#100. A life is bookended by forgetting, as though memory forms the tunnel that leads into and out of a human body.
Sarah Hepola
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