John Milton Quotes

Tomorrow comes after the dark

To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

The light of the future casts the shadows of tomorrow.

Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that.

The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.

Maybe nothing will ever change for us,” he said. “But don’t you want to be around just in case it does?

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.

And I also know that pain can seem like an endless ribbon. You pull it and you pull it. You keep gathering it toward you, and as it collects, you really can't believe that there's something else at the end of it. Something that isn't just more pain. But there's always something else at the end; something at least a little different. You never know what that thing will be, but it's there.

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.

Who knows what happens tomorrow? We'll find it tomorrow.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

No matter what era we're in, we need hope.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

Who can love to walk in the dark? But providence doth often so dispose.

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.

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

We should be optimistic about the future even though we have a complicated present.

For those suffering from depression, I know how dark and endless that tunnel can feel. But if happiness seems impossible to find, please hold on to the possibility of hope, faint though it may be.

But stories don't end. They continue as long as you're alive. You just have to get on with things. Turn the page, start a new chapter, find out what's in store for you next, and keep your fingers crossed that it's not too awful. Even if you know in your heart and soul that it most probably will be.

For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.