Leo Tolstoy Quotes

There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.

I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.

I think the one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope. If you put me in a position where you took all my hope away, I'm not sure I could make it through the day.

We need hope, or else we cannot endure.

It is possible I am pushing through solid rock, like the vein of ore encased, alone. I am such a long way in I can see no way through and no space. Everything is close to my face and everything close to my face is stone. I don't have much knowledge yet in grief, so this darkness makes me feel small. You, be the Master; Make yourself fierce; break in. And then your great transforming will happen to me And my great grief cry will happen to you.

If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.

Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.

Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light

I can't go on. I'll go on.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

If you try and kind of focus on hope, but you know what it's like to be in the dark, then hope is more meaningful.

What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don't give up the ship, we have only begun to fight, it's always darkest before the dawn.

For me and Washington, it was like I was in a dark tunnel, and the light was really far away.

There's a darkness that everyone must face, it wants to take what's good and fair and lay it all to waste. And that darkness covers everything in sight, until it meets a single point of light.

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.

She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!)

If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.

T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

He has afflicted you from every direction in order to pull you back to the directionless.

The lonely heart you see tonight will not give up without a fight.

Cold as winter, strong as stone; She faced the darkness all alone. A silver goddess; a reflection. A mirage; a recollection. No return; no turning back. The past is gone, the future, black. Serpents gather in their nest, And she stands above the rest. Shadows hunt; she hunts the shadow. The moon is risen; she stands below. She views her world through the eyes of others. Black and white; there are no colors, As she looks down upon a shattered youth. A shattered mirror shows a shattered truth.