Even the blackest night is always followed by the dawn

• Darkness is dawn not yet born. Khalil Gibran
• Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming. Rumi
• One may not reach the dawn save by path of night. Khalil Gibran
• Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn. Khalil Gibran
• Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible. Hugh B. Brown
• Expect the dawn of a new beginning in the dark nights of life. Lloyd John Ogilvie
• Night’s darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn. Rabindranath Tagore
• The period before the dawn of knowledge is called the age of darkness. Wasif Ali Wasif
• Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark. Rabindranath Tagore
• The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer’s fear. Anne McCaffrey
• Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn. Robert Breault
• The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• I say to this night: “Pass more slowly”; and the dawn will come to dispel the night. Alphonse de Lamartine
• Every violent storm will eventually give way to sunshine; every dark night will finally fade into dawn. Steve Goodier
• We should never forget that after every night, there is a dawn. We should never lose our optimistic faith. Mata Amritanandamayi
• In the middle of the night, there is always less hope; in the dawn of the morning, there is always more hope! Mehmet Murat Ildan
• After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies. Samuel Rutherford
• To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise. John Milton
• Hope changes everything. It changes winter into summer, darkness into dawn, descent into ascent, barrenness into creativity, agony into joy. Daisaku Ikeda
• I think it’s darkness before the dawn, because the next evolution is going to be a consciousness evolution instead of a communication revolution. Ram Dass
• Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation. Sholem Asch
• Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night’s gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf. Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
• Disappointment always arrives before hope and the darkness of night comes before the dawn. Don’t lose hope now because things will brighter with the new day. Henry Rollins
• You have to have a darkness…for the dawn to come. You have to have experienced difficulties and challenges to fully appreciate and be grateful for success. Harrison Ford
• In this story, the sun moves. In this story, every night meets a dawn and burns away in the bright morning. In this story, Winter can never hold back the Spring… D. Wilson
• Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up. Anne Lamott
• Don’t you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you! Charles Spurgeon
• Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. In effect, the people who change our lives the most begin to sing to us while we are still in darkness. If we listen to their song, we will see the dawning of a new part of ourselves. Rabindranath Tagore
• After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask! Obafemi Awolowo
• The world…is full of resurrections… Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it – the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life. George MacDonald
• How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes. Bill W.
• Dawn’s faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night is done. You are light and morning. Cesare Pavese
• But, this dark place is not the end. Remember that the darkness of night precedes the dawn. And as long as your heart still beats, this is not the death of it. You don’t have to die here. Sometimes, the ocean floor is only a stop on the journey. And it is when you are at this lowest point, that you are faced with a choice. You can stay there at the bottom, until you drown. Or you can gather pearls and rise back up—stronger from the swim, and richer from the jewels. Yasmin Mogahed

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It is always darkest just before the dawn

• It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn. Thomas Fuller
• The darkness is at its deepest. Just before the sunrise. Voltaire
• It’s always darkness before the dawn. Florence Welch
• In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way. Abraham Joshua Heschel
• It’s always darkest before the dawn. The bigger your challenge, the closer you are to your victory. Joel Osteen
• It is always darkest before the dawn. Dan Brown
• It’s always darkest before the dawn. So if you’re going to steal your neighbor’s newspaper, that’s the time to do it. Navjot Singh Sidhu
• The nearer the dawn the darker the night. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win. Daisaku Ikeda
• Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever. Ernest Hemingway
• But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow