a lantern QUOTES

1 " If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us. "

― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

2 " To hear never-heard sounds,
To see never-seen colors and shapes,
To try to understand the imperceptible
Power pervading the world;
To fly and find pure ethereal substances
That are not of matter
But of that invisible soul pervading reality.
To hear another soul and to whisper to another soul;
To be a lantern in the darkness
Or an umbrella in a stormy day;
To feel much more than know.
To be the eyes of an eagle, slope of a mountain;
To be a wave understanding the influence of the moon;
To be a tree and read the memory of the leaves;
To be an insignificant pedestrian on the streets
Of crazy cities watching, watching, and watching.
To be a smile on the face of a woman
And shine in her memory
As a moment saved without planning. "

― Dejan Stojanovic

3 " Her face was very beautiful, he thought. He hadn't been sure before, but he was now. The mind that lived behind it made it beautiful, the same way that the flame inside a lantern makes the lantern beautiful. "

― Philip Reeve

4 " Moon is the light from a lantern in heaven "

― Munia Khan

5 " You are like a lantern swathed and covered, hidden away in a dark place. Yet the light shines; they could not put out the light. They could not hide you. "

― Ursula K. Le Guin , The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

6 " I loved you without knowing it, and I looked for your memory.
In empty houses I entered with a lantern to steal your portrait "

― Pablo Neruda , 100 Love Sonnets

7 " The great man will come when all of us are feeling great, not when all of us are feeling small. He will ride in at some splendid moment when we all feel that we could do without him." We are then able to answer in some manner the question, " Why have we no great men?" We have no great men chiefly because we are always looking for them. We are connoisseurs of greatness, and connoisseurs can never be great; we are fastidious, that is, we are small." When Diogenes went about with a lantern looking for an honest man, I am afraid he had very little time to be honest himself And when anybody goes about on his hands and knees looking for a great man to worship, he is making sure that one man at any rate shall not be great." Now, the error of Diogenes is evident. The error of Diogenes lay in the fact that he omitted to notice that every man is both an honest man and a dishonest man. Diogenes looked for his honest man inside every crypt and cavern; but he never thought of looking inside the thief. "

8 " He was bright, bright, bright, like a lantern above a pub door in November- he made you want to come in and never leave. "

― Caitlin Moran , How to Build a Girl (How to Build a Girl, #1)

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