Quotes About Silver Lining

“Every cloud has a silver lining. Right. Okay. And, tell me again how a silver lining helps me?”

— Demetri Martin

“If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.”

— Matthew Quick

“When I read the actual story-how Gatsby loves Daisy so much but can't ever be with her no matter how hard he tries-I feel like ripping the book in half and calling up Fitzgerald and telling him his book is all wrong, even though I know Fitzgerald is probably deceased. Especially when Gatsby is shot dead in his swimming pool the first time he goes for a swim all summer, Daisy doesn't even go to his funeral, Nick and Jordan part ways, and Daisy ends up sticking with racist Tom, whose need for sex basically murders an innocent woman, you can tell Fitzgerald never took the time to look up at clouds during sunset, because there's no silver lining at the end of that book, let me tell you.”

— Matthew Quick

“A shaft of sunlight pierced the dark cluds and she looked up to see a silver lining. It was a sign, she thought.”

— Diane Grifith

“If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks like a duck, it is a very unfortunate situation for the batting team. On the other side of the image, although being definitely unfortunatable for the batting team, it is most definitely a glorious silver lining for the bowling team.”

— Ian B.G. Burns

“I am a sanguinely optimistic person, I see the bright side, the silver lining, a half-full glass. Hence, my day is always sunny even though the sky foreboding.”

— Joseph V. Angeles

“Even if you cannot always see that silver lining on your clouds, God can, for He is the very source of the light you seek. He does love you, and He knows your fears. He hears your prayers. He is your Heavenly Father, and surely He matches with His own the tears His children shed.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

“Every cloud has a silver lining. The edge of light that shines brightest holds a sliver of hope for a bright today & an even better tomorrow.”

— Truth Devour

“Every cloud has a silver lining, if not wait for the rain.”

— Emma Brynstein

“Stop torturing yourself, her friends said. Stop living in the past. He was gone. Capital G
Gone. He wasn't coming back. She should focus not on the pain, but on the possibility. Something good would come from all this heartache, something always did. Everything, her friends told her, happened for a reason. She should start looking for the silver lining.
She thought she might start looking for new friends.”

— Aryn Kyle

“Silver lining; if we die, I won't have to take the SATs in January”

— Delia Winters

“If the bombs go off the sun will still be shining, because I've heard it said that
every mushroom cloud has a silver lining.”

— Adam Young Owl City Cave In

“We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions ... this especially applies to what we used to call bad things ... the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.”

— James Redfield

“Don't give up on yourself. It's incredibly cliche, but it's true. The worst is yet to come if you give up on yourself. Hold yourself in high regard, and know that, though the ride may be bumpy and uncomfortable, there is a silver lining. You have to be able to see the good things in all that happens to you.”

— Leigh Hershkovich

“I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose.
And I chose those two. I think that's what you'd call a silver lining.”

— Jenny Valentine

“Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint'
-archy the cockroach”

— Don Marquis

“The silver lining of those years when I was trying to get 'Tinkers' published but couldn't were the years when I had to decide, Why do I want to be a writer? I realized that writing is the thing itself; writing is not a means to publication, writing is not a predicate of publication, so I spent years making art for art's sake.”

— Paul Harding

“It was a melancholy day indeed when the sister of solitude was Sunday's silver lining.”

— Alethea Kontis

“Life had once been clear-cut, black and white, but now, the colors had starting to bleed together into an ugly gray. That gray seemed to follow me everywhere. I just had to remember to keep finding the silver lining.”

— Cameo Renae

“See? There's a silver lining in every dark cloud or whatever bullshit they say.”

— J. Lynn

“The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.”

— Bob Barr

“Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.”

— Chandra Wilson

“Look for the silver lining whenever a cloud appears in the blue.”

— Anonymous.

“[ ... ] I really like being the sun, exactly what allows clouds to have a silver lining.”

— Matthew Quick

“Daisy doesn't even go to his funeral, Nick and Jordan part ways, and Daisy ends up sticking with racist Tom ... you can tell Fitzgerald never took the time to look up at clouds during sunset, because there's no silver lining at the end of that book, let me tell you.
I do see why Nikki likes the novel, as it's written so well. But her liking it makes me worry now that Nikki really doesn't believe in silver linings, because she says The Great Gatsby is the greatest novel ever written by an American, and yet it ends so sadly. One thing's for sure, Nikki is going to be very proud of me when I tell her I finally read her favorite book. -Silver Linings Playbook, p. 9”

— Matthew Quick

“Every crowd has a silver lining.”

— P.T. Barnum

“God intends to free us from more than our idolatry; He intends to free us from ourselves. He even wants to liberate us from our need to find a silver lining in suffering.”

— Tullian Tchividjian

“Every dark cloud may well have its silver lining, but I have come to learn that every silver lining has its dark consequences.”

— Tim O'Brien

“I'm not actually a mom in real life, so it's fun to pretend to be one. I like to approach things the same in art as in life. You can choose to look on the positive side and enjoy whatever roles you're given. You can find the silver lining in anything.”

— Heather Graham

“If there is a silver lining in the action of MSNBC against Keith Olbermann, it is that people will now pay more attention to the political role of corporate media in America.”

— Bernie Sanders

“I want you to go back to Tucson and bring me the bottle of tequila I keep in my liquor cabinet. And don't scare Tim."
Volusian remained motionless in that way of his. "My mistress grows increasingly creative in her ways to torment me."
"I thought you'd appreciate it."
"Only in so much as it inspires me to equally creative means to rip you apart when I am able to break free of these bonds and finally destroy you."
"You see? There's a silver lining to everything. Now hurry up.”

— Richelle Mead

“We all want to do something to mitigate the pain of loss or to turn grief into something positive, to find a silver lining in the clouds. But I believe there is real value in just standing there, being still, being sad.”

— John Green

“"But you're a full-blood netherling. You don't know how to use your imagination."
"On the contrary. I do. Thanks to you. I followed your example in our childhood. I absorbed it without even realizing. Then, when I was stuck here deprived of my magic, I had to find something to while away those weeks and hours. Perhaps that was the silver lining to this entire debacle. The lack of magic is what leads humans to fantasize in the first place. And Alyssa, what a wonderfully powerful force an imagination can be."
His expression is awestruck, exactly the way he used to look at me during our childhood escapades. How inconceivable, that I was his teacher, too. He once told me I was, but I never grasped what he meant until now.”

— A.G. Howard

“Behind every dark cloud is a silver lining (photo taken by me yesterday afternoon). Just like a cloud is a free spirit ... allow your dreams to be the same and you will become the master of all you desire ...”

— Stephen Richards

“If there was one silver lining to this whole mess, it was the reminder of my family's greatness. I had a lovely visit with my mother that”

— Piper Kerman

“Every cloud has a silver lining”

— John Milton

“I don't want an angry song with no silver lining ending up on my album. Then I'd have to play, or feel obliged to play, that song every night in repetition as a mantra of anger.”

— Alex Ebert

“I wouldn't call it a silver lining, but with more women speaking up, online harassment is beginning to be taken more seriously.”

— Anita Sarkeesian

“"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."”

— Anwar Sadat

“Every Could Has A silver Lining Mine is, At WrestleMania, I get to face you.. not only that but at wrestlemania trish Stratus.. im gona become the new women's champion”

— Mickie James

“When you are ready to move on or if you come to peace with pain, you'll find a silver lining.”

— Miley Cyrus

“I believe that there is a silver lining in everything, and once you begin to see it, you'll need sunglasses to combat the glare.”

— Sophia Amoruso

“When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.”

— Mario Andretti

“The process of discovering who we are and what we are here to do ... is dependent ... on our ability to stay positive and to find a silver lining in all events.”

— James Redfield

“Every silver lining has a touch of grey.”

— Jerry Garcia

“To the one who delights in the sovereignty of God the clouds not only have a 'silver lining' but they are silver all through, the darkness only serving to offset the light!”

— Arthur W. Pink

“The only silver lining I can find is that British accents aren't sexy anymore.”

— Bill Maher

“Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?”

— John Milton

“I'm thinking wanting to succeed is something in my DNA; I'm not like 'I've got to succeed,' I just don't think about that. I see a silver lining in everything and I see a lesson in everything.”

— Queen Latifah

“I expect to see trade wars, foreign policy disasters, a few race riots, a decrease in personal liberty, higher taxes, higher inflation and probably, economic collapse. The silver lining is, secession will probably become more feasible.”

— Charley Reese