Sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted. Bloom.

- Christine Caine

Everything is dark
It's more than you can take
But you catch a glimpse of sun light
Shining, shining down on your face
- Andrew Belle

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
- John 1:5

Happy is the heart that still feels pain
Darkness drains and light will come again
Swing open up your chest and let it in
Just let the love, love, love begin
- Ingrid Michaelson

Nobody looks good in their darkest hours. But it’s those hours that make us what we are.

- Karen Marie Moning

My life is cold, and dark, and dreary; 

It rains,and the wind is never weary; 

My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past, 

But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, 

And the days are dark and dreary. 

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; 

Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; 

Thy fate is the common fate of all, 

Into each life some rain must fall, 

Some days must be dark and dreary. 

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

in celebration of surviving

when senselessness has pounded you around on the ropes
and you’re getting too old to hold out for the future
no work and running out of money,
and then you make a try after something that you know you won’t get
and this long shot comes through on the stretch
in a photo finish of your heart’s trepidation
then for a while
even the chill factor of these prairie winters puts it at fifty below
you’re warm and have that old feeling
of being a comer, though belated
in the crazy game of live

standing in the winter night
emptying the garbage and looking at the stars
you realize although the odds are fantastically against you
when that single January shooting star
flung its wad in the maw of night
it was yours
and though the years are edged with crime and squalor
that second wind, or twenty-third
is coming strong
and for a time
perhaps a very short time
one lives as though in a golden envelope of light
- Chuck Miller

There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world even though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for mankind.
- Hannah Senesh

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
- George Chakiris

Evening

At the end of the gift of light, returning,
Draw, with white arm raised, the effective curtain,
Swiftly serry the folds in ranks of twilight,
Strike the camp of the day. Within are burning
Small reliable suns of yellow lamplight
On the fields of our room, where all is certain.
-E. B. White

When you have come to the edge of all the light you have, and step into the darkness of the unknown, believe that one of the two will happen to you: either you’ll find something solid to stand on, or you’ll be taught how to fly.
- Richard Bach

The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places. But still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps the greater.
- J.R.R. Tolkien

They say in each life a little rain must fall
But I will carry on and make it through it all
They say in each life a little rain must fall
But I will carry on and make it through it all and
Shine
Even though the stars aren't smiling on me tonight
I won't let the darkness steal the sunshine
Dim the spotlight on my life
Cause the sun's always been a friend of mine
And he and I are gonna part the clouds in the sky
And shine shine shine.

- Sara Haze

I was the dark before the dawn
The voice without a song
The words that came out wrong
But you heard me all along

- The Maine

Chin up. Put your shoulders back, walk proud, strut a little. Don’t lick your wounds, celebrate them. The scars you bare are the signs of a competitor. You’re in a lion fight. Just because you didn’t win, doesn’t mean you don’t know how to roar.

- Grey’s Anatomy

People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

In the darkness of the window
I can hardly get to sleep
Wish for the hour that
The nighttime soon shall pass
And the morning dew will bring us
To a day our souls can last
Love has a reason
There's a meaning to the world
We're giving love
- Gavin Degraw

But you know happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light.
- Albus Dumbledore

When the rain, breaks the road
Are you holding on, are you holding on
To your last good day
When the stone breaks the wheel
Are you holding, are you holding on
Til the stone rolls away

And I don't know
Is this the part where you let go
And tumbling out of a window
Is this the part where you find out I'm there
For you.

- Hem