Elie Wiesel Quotes

In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption, hope. There's forgiveness, there's friendship, there's love. But the world in all of its potential craziness is also there.

Oppression won't win, the light comes from within.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

I don't know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness, you discover an indistinguishable light.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Darkness does not truly have sway. I think that it's weak.

Sometimes you find your strongest faith in the darkest corners.

John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there's a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something.

My broken brilliance will shine a light in the darkness.

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.

And I saw darkness for weeks. It never dawned on me that I could come out of it, but you heal. Nature heals you, and you do come out of it. All of a sudden I saw a crack of light ... then all of a sudden I saw another crack of light. Then I saw forms in the light. And I recognized that there was no darkness, that in darkness there'll always be light.

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.

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you'll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.

During the night we must wait for the light.

Never are we nearer the Light than when the darkness is deepest.

I can't get caught up in darkness. I just don't. I always want to gravitate towards light. I love picking yourself up or surviving or being grateful for the good stuff and not getting lost in the tough stuff. The discipline is so natural for me.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

The more I think about the human suffering in our world and my desire to offer a healing response, the more I realize how crucial it is not to allow myself to become paralyzed by feelings of helplessness and guilt. More important than ever is to be very faithful to my vocation to do well the few things I am called to do and hold on to the joy and peace they bring me. I must resist the temptation to let the forces of darkness pull me into despair and make me one more of their many victims.