Yann Martel Quotes

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

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

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

Even in that time of utter darkness, somewhere deep inside me the memory of love and goodness had stayed alive.

Faith is seeing light with your heart when all your eyes see is darkness.

In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.

In the midst of darkness, light persists.

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.

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

That’s what’s so gorgeous about humanity. It doesn’t matter how bleak our daily lives are, we still fight for the light. I think that’s our divinity. We lean into love, even in the most hideous circumstances. We manage to hope.

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

I will gather myself around my faith, for light does the darkness most fear.

A warrior of light knows that certain impossible battles are worth fighting and so he/she is not afraid of being disappointed, knowing the power of his/her love.

Have faith in God. Stay focused.

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

Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it.

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.

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.

Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always in the soul. In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.

Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

To hope is to see with the eye of the heart. To hope is to make the heart captain the vital and the body. To hope is to send darkness-night into exile.