J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

See? There it is again. My flame in the dark.

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

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.

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

When things get dark, they're going to get darker, and at that very moment, that's when you hang on that much tighter because that's when salvation and light come.

If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.

Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.

And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.

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

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

When walking through the 'valley of shadows,' remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

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.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.

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.

For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.

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.

T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.

Faith is the bird that sings while it is yet dark.