J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

Hope does not leave without being given permission.

Let no one despair, even though in the darkest night the last star of hope may disappear.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.

I have this thing I say to myself that 'tomorrow can be better.' And I remember that period in my life where I never felt like tomorrow could be better. It was always dread for the next day.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

What I learned at home was despair and hopelessness. What I learned at the pictures was don't give up the ship, we have only begun to fight, it's always darkest before the dawn.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you'll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.

Do not despair. In every defeat are found the seeds of victory.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

I do not believe this darkness will endure.

The living can't quit living because the world has turned terrible and people they love and need are killed. They can't because they don't. The light that shines into darkness and never goes out calls them on into life. It calls them back again into the great room. It calls them into their bodies and into the world, into whatever the world will require. It calls them into work and pleasure, goodness and beauty, and the company of other loved ones.

The worst has happened. The best is next.

It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.

If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!

You must never conclude, even though everything goes wrong, that you cannot succeed. Even at the worst there is a way out, a hidden secret that can turn failure into success and despair into happiness. No situation is so dark that there is not a ray of light

Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the shards of our world lie littered about us in pieces. We all will experience those broken times when it seems we can never be put together again. We will all have our Fridays. But I testify to you in the name of the One who conquered death—Sunday will come. In the darkness of our sorrow, Sunday will come. No matter our desperation, no matter our grief, Sunday will come. In this life or the next, Sunday will come.