Patti Smith Quotes

The dark today leads into light tomorrow. There is no endless joy, and yet no endless sorrow.

I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild.

There is a budding morrow in midnight.

The worst has happened. The best is next.

April is a promise of what's to come.

I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn.

We can’t change history, but we can create the future.

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

One morning as I lay sleeping on the floor, a cockroach crawled over my foot. And I opened my eyes out of this dead sleep - about a 43-year sleep - and in place of all that darkness was a joy that I can't describe.

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

To wake for the first time in a new place can be like another birth.

Whatever has happened in someone's past, the future is theirs to shape. The first step is to find a way out.

A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH.

Our past is not our potential.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

More often than not, when something looks like it's the absolute end, it is really the beginning.

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.

A world to be born under your footsteps.

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country, a man can be no more than his father, providing he works hard. If his father was a carpenter, he may be a carpenter. He many not be a teacher or a priest. He may rise - but only to his father's state. In the old country, a man is given to the past. Here he belongs to the future. In this land, he may be what he will, if he has the good heart and the way of working honestly at the right things.

No matter how dark the night, morning always comes, and our journey begins anew.

Tomorrow we begin a new tomorrow.

It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.