Lanterns Quotes

• If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way

  Nichiren

  Light, Way, Ifs

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• Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.

  Dan Millman

  Faith, Letting Go, Spiritual

  Dan Millman (2001). “The Laws of Spirit: Simple, Powerful Truths for Making Life Work”, p.55, H J Kramer

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• I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

  Emily Dickinson

  Emily Dickinson (2012). “Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• You are not one you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern.

  Rumi

  Light, Thousand

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• If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.

  Plato

  Hope For The Future, Ifs

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• God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.

  William Shakespeare

  Hope, Powerful, Feet

  1592 Henry. Henry VI PartTwo, act 2, sc.3, l.24-5.

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• We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us.

  Marge Piercy

  Glasses, Light, Icons

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• Turn away from the world this year and begin to listen. Listen to the whispers of your heart. Look within. Your silent companion has lit lanterns of love to illuminate the path to Wholeness. At long last, the journey you were destined to take has begun.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Heart, Journey, Years

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2008). “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• A little town is like a lantern. Nothing's hid from sight.

  Rachel Field

  Sight, Littles, Towns

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• Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

  Muhammad Naguib

  Fear, Color, Religion

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• If you are the lantern, I am the flame; If you are the lake, then I am the rain; If you are the desert, I am the sea; If you are the blossom, I am the bee; If you are the fruit, then I am the core; If you are the rock, then I am the ore; If you are the ballad, I am the word; If you are the sheath, then I am the sword.

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton

  Rain, Lakes, Rocks

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “The Lady of the Sorrows”, p.285, Pan Macmillan

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• Unintelligible language is a lantern without a light.

  Samuel Johnson

  Light, Language

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• Your humble light the fire of your mind blinds you: If you walk with a lantern in the dark you won't see the stars.

  Hans Børli

  Stars, Humble, Dark

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• I've become a lantern bearer, lighting the path this country will take.

  Nahoko Uehashi

  Country, Path, Lighting

  Nahoko Uehashi (2014). “Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit”, p.116, Scholastic Inc.

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• Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Light, Wells, Knows

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• It may be that the night will close over us in the end, but I believe that morning will come again. Morning always grows out of the darkness, though maybe not for the people who saw the sun go down. We are the Lantern Bearers, my friend; for us to keep something burning, to carry what light we can forward into the darkness and the wind.

  Rosemary Sutcliff

  Morning, Believe, Night

  Rosemary Sutcliff (2011). “The Lantern Bearers”, p.217, Macmillan

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• But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Dark, Self

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• I can see lights in the distance trembling in the dark cloak of night Candles and lanterns are dancing, dancing a waltz on All Souls Night.

  Loreena McKennitt

  Halloween, Distance, Dark

  Song: All Souls Night

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• A languid janitor bears
  His lantern through colonnades
  And the architecture swoons.

  Wallace Stevens

  Bears, Architecture, Janitor

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.109, Vintage

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• A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

  Thomas Hardy

  Years, Long, Extinction

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Return of the Native”, p.80, Thomas Hardy

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• Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook

  Nizar Qabbani

  Notebook, Light, Important

  Nizar Qabbani, “Light Is More Important Than The Lantern”

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• He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.

  Ayn Rand

  Dark, Personality, Red

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.15, Hamilton Books

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• In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega--a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dark, Night, Men

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.101, A&C Black

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• Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter...
  Whither is God, he cried. I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. All of us are murderers.... God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Morning, Laughter, Believe

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• I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

  William Butler Yeats

  Believe, Men, Swings

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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