John Barrowman Quotes

Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

I can understand the validity of showing people the ugliness of the world, but I also think there is a place for movies to leave people with a sense of hope.

You shine like a beacon in a dark world.

There's too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin' to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there's a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you're not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.

With whatever talent and resources I have, I'm trying to bring light to penetrate the darkness many people feel.

I just want to be a light of hope for anyone who might be in the dark.

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.

The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it’s supposed sophistication, it’s cynicism that’s simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks? The sages and prophets, the disciples and revolutionaries, they are the ones up on the ramparts, up on the wall pointing to the dawn of the new Kingdom coming, pointing to the light that breaks through all things broken, pointing to redemption always rising and to the Blazing God who never sleeps.

In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope.

When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of the house, and the brightness of its light inspires you to open all the curtains. In the vision of the Great Eastern Sun, no human being is a lost cause.

I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.

This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

I honestly believe there are good things happening in this world, and I'll spend most of my time trying to find them and bring them to light.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough.

I feel now it's useless to keep hoping. The way things are today, we live in a world that needs laughter, and I've decided if I can make people laugh, I'm making a more important contribution.

hope to the world for all future time.

Listen, if there's anything we need more of in this world, it's something that has a better ending or is more positive.

Life is hard, you know. If I can give someone on the radio three minutes to make them feel happier, that's a cool thing.

It's extremely important just to keep things positive and happy as much as we can... I think it's important that singers, actors, or whatever use our voice to spread positive messages as much as we possibly can.

African-American music tends to have, at the very least, a glimmer of hope to it - sometimes full-fledged hope.

Any post I do on social media, any song, anything in general - I just try to promote positivity, because I felt like there's not enough positivity going around in the world.

I can't let darkness be what guides my decisions. I can't let that be what guides how I treat people. I can't let that be what drives my art, either.

I think all the best songs do that: they offer some sort of hope and light in the darkness.