Svetlana Alexievich Quotes

When you look on the bright side, you're acknowledging that there is a dark side at which you are choosing not to gaze. If you think that the darkest hour is before the dawn, you accept that you are moving from darkness to light.

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

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

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.

They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect That no one will need to be good.

Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

I believe in rainbows and all of that. But there are darker colors … and it's the shade that defines the light.

I've just come to try to see the positive in everything. Despite people saying 'The Room' is the worst movie or whatever, it's brought about a lot of great things.

If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it's clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.

I've always felt in my own small, little way that if I could just write a story where it works out well, where the scales of justice are balanced, then that's something that I do really love to see in the world.

Sometimes a blessing will come out of mistakes.

The world is made up of good and evil, and everybody has their own take, and everybody thinks they are on the good side, and a very few, select group of us will admit that we come from the dark side.

I am not saying everything's perfect, but I embrace anything bad because that makes me appreciate all the good.

There's pros and cons to everything, and I choose to look at the positives.

Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.

My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.

Even when it doesn't look good, it's always good. Even the worst thing, there's always something good that comes out of it. I've learned that.

John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there's a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something.

Although sometimes it's very difficult, if you're willing to look hard enough, you can find positives in every situation.

You'd never be able to appreciate what's good in life if you've never experienced the bad.

I'm drawn to the dark but not the nihilistic aspects, the relentless parts, of darkness.

He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.