John Milton Quotes

And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.

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

Light is to darkness what love is to fear; in the presence of one the other disappears.

It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest light can come; it is only after extreme grief that the greatest joy can come.

Even the smallest light can grow until there’s no darkness left.

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.

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

The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope.

He changed sunset into sunrise.

Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Don't be made useless or idle with despair. Gather yourself around your strength for light does the darkness most fear.

Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness which, if we seek them, there are ever some, to cheer our transitory existence here. There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.

A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering. All these thoughts passed in a flash of a second. He trembled. And then quite suddenly in another flash, as if lifted by a new strength and resolve, he leaped.

There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.

There was no sun; there was no light. I was dying. I couldn't remember what the sky looked like. But I didn't die. I was lost to a sea of cold, and then I was reborn into a world of warmth.

Whenever you see something going well - whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world - look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.

You know, the smallest thing can change a life. In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - and when you least expect it - since we’re on a course that you could have never planned, into a future you never imagined. Where will it take you? That’s the journey of our lives: our search for the light. But sometimes, finding the light means you must past through the deepest darkness.

I'm no reformer; for I see more lightThan darkness in the world; mine eyes are quickTo catch the first dim radiance of the dawn,And slow to note the cloud that threatens storm.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.