Amanda Palmer Quotes

Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate.

It's always darkest before the dawn, Todd.” I look at him, baffled. “No, it ain't! What kinda stupid saying is that? It's always lightest before the dawn!

When people (talk trash) about you, you have to keep it moving, keep the records hot and keep your head up.

If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.

The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope.

There's always darkness around, and if you focus on the darkness, you don't know where to go. But if you direct yourself at the light - there it is! It's right there.

Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.

You can't discover light, by analyzing the dark.

I wrote these two songs ["Coming Out of the Dark" and "Always Tomorrow"] as a celebration of hope. And I want to send it out to all of those people who are suffering through this terrible disaster [Hurricane Katrina], and please know that you are not alone - and you will not be.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.

I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing.

...be a light unto the darkness, and curse it not

There's always light at the end of the tunnel, right? It just depends on how long the tunnel is.

I am sunlight slicing the dark.

Being that rare sort of old girl that she receives Good to her arms without a hint that it might be Better and catches light from any little spot of darkness near her.

There's so much negativity in the world and what you only need to hear is all the love. People try to say to me, 'I just heard someone say this or that about you,' and I just ignore it because it's irrelevant. Love is what makes the world go around, and that's all we need to focus on.

And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

You must go into the dark in order to bring forth your light.

Be a source of joy. And let haters complain about the world.

In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.

I live in a world of possibility and opportunity. You look for the light. There's darkness everywhere but you look for that spot of light and you work your way towards it, and you do what it takes to get there.

Only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.