Herman Melville Quotes

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

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

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Let me die fighting. Two years of physical suffering have taken from me twenty years of life. But the soul changes not, does it? It is there, the same madcap - Atman - mad upon one idea, intent and intense.

My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It’s a great enhancer. It might last a minute, but eventually it subsides, and when it does, something else takes its place, and maybe that thing is a great space. For happiness. Each time I encountered suffering, I believed that I grew, and further defined my capacities – not just my physical ones, but my interior ones as well, for contentment, friendship, or any other human experience.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn't destroy us, if it doesn't burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things.

...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.

I want to believe that I'm not wrong. I want to believe that life isn't full of darkness. Even if storms come to pass, the sun will shine again. No matter how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.

seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space

The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.

Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

My heart's dark, but it's rising. I'm pulling all the faith I can see.

The sun will shine again. No matter... how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.

His characters are ravaged, beaten. They walk through infernos and emerged charred doves.

No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.