J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

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

My broken brilliance will shine a light in the darkness.

When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always in the soul. In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.

Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.

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

People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

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.

There's no night without stars.

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

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.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

I have been drawn to stories that are attempting to turn suffering into beauty.

People who are living in economic struggle are more than their circumstances. They're majestic and creative and beautiful.

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.

We've all lived through something horrific, but the strength and beauty and knowledge that we're going to win eventually is what keeps me going.

I want to show people no matter what they go through there's a light at the end of the tunnel.