Germaine Greer Quotes

However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

I do not believe this darkness will endure.

You have to have a darkness...for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success.

It's always darkness before the dawn.

It is always darkest before the dawn.

Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

To go through the agonizing process of learning how to walk again and write again and speak again makes you much more empathetic to people.

You can be going through hardships sometimes, and you're struggling, and then you're wondering if you're ever gonna make it.

I've had many ups and downs before, and I think it's always darkest before dawn.

Life is like a wrestling match: a lot of times, things are looking good, and then something happens, and you're fighting from underneath.

Everyone has a dark cloud hovering over them at some point, but then there is sunshine.

For me and Washington, it was like I was in a dark tunnel, and the light was really far away.

Sometimes those who bloom too early fade fast. Michael Kors struggled for years - and endured bankruptcy - before he became all rich and famous and fabulous.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

We were going to leave a mark on the world but instead the world left marks on us.

You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.

In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.

If He put tribulation before you and said He will give you patience by giving you a little trouble along the way, wouldn't you take a little trouble? You say, 'Lord, I want all my highways paved.' the Lord says, 'I'm sorry, I can't accommodate you. I'm going to let you run over some bumps occasionally, so you will have patience.' You do not like the bumps, but you like the patience, and if you want the patience, you will have to take the bumps. And what is patience but experience?

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.

I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.

Patience is not learned in safety.