James Baldwin Quotes

There is no other course but the one we have chosen, except the course of humiliation and darkness, after which there will be no bright sign in the sky or brilliant light on earth? All this will make us more patient and steadfast, and better prepared for the battle which God blesses and which good men support. Then there will only be a glorious conclusion, where a brilliant sun will clear the dust of battle, and where the clouds of battles will be dispelled.

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.

The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it.

It's always darkest before the dawn. The bigger your challenge, the closer you are to your victory.

Man's life seems to me like a long, weary night that would be intolerable if there were not occasionally flashes of light, the sudden brightness of which is so comforting and wonderful, that the moments of their appearance cancel out and justify the years of darkness.

...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.

Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.

Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

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

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

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

Survival is triumph enough.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail...

Filipinos don't realize that victory is the child of struggle, that joy blossoms from suffering, and redemption is a product of sacrifice.

The pain that all people experience in life and the light that helps them champion through it all - it's their lives and their stories and their love and will to keep living that moves me to write.

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

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.

Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.

The victory of endurance born.

It is not quite the same when we are seventy-two as when we are twenty-seven; still I am glad of what is left, and wish we might both hold out till the victory we have sought is won, but all the same the victory is coming. In the aftertime the world will be the better for it.

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

I'm always interested in people being able to share stories that allow us to see the landscape of human foibles, challenges, and ultimately triumph.