Cyril Tourneur Quotes

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

We all find joy and radiance and a reason to move on even in the most dire of circumstances. Even in chaos and madness, there's still a beauty that comes from just the vibrancy of another human spirit.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own.

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

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

The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

We must look not to the negative (the misery, the bestial in life), although we undergo it and sympathize with it, but rather to the burgeoning life around us, which is strengthened by the negative.

Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em.

I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

I suppose I always find a lot of characters that are deeply, deeply keening with a sense of yearning and desire through sadness, but they have a bravery that keeps them going despite that.

You can hit the lowest low and face the darkest dark, but you can always get back up and get in the light. All of this is what actually makes life worth living.

Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.

May the stars carry your sadness away, may the flowers fill your heart with beauty, may hope forever wipe away your tears. And, above all, may silence make you strong.

Everyone cries sometimes, Tory. There are some pains that run too deep for even the strongest to take without breaking. I don’t think any less of you for it. (Acheron)

Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of our pain.

When we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little while. The spring returns and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.

How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light.