“Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.”
Source: The Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho 844
Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947Related quotes
“It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.”
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 132.
“It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.”
Source: I Still Dream About You
Introduction: The Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of Being (Stambaugh translation)
Being and Time (1927)
"Donkeys," said Nasrudin.
N. Hanif (ed.), Biographical Encyclopaedia of Sufis: Central Asia and Middle East (2002), ISBN 8176252662, p. 335
“Sleepless,
Twenty-four hours of searching
Searching for my life”
Sleepless
Song lyrics
Variant translation: In the beginning was the myth. Just as the great god composed and struggled for expression in the souls of the Indians, the Greeks and Germanic peoples, so to it continues to compose daily in the soul of every child.
Peter Camenzind (1904)
Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 368.