
“Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.”
"Nephelidia", line 16, from The Heptalogia (1880); Swinburne intended "Nephelidia" as a self-parody.
Context: And now we are wanting everyone in every country through the education department of every government to unfold that inner content of life. It’s very simple to light the lamp is so easy. And yet that process of lighting the lamp is enough to eliminate the difficulties in the darkness.
“Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.”
"Nephelidia", line 16, from The Heptalogia (1880); Swinburne intended "Nephelidia" as a self-parody.
“Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness”
“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.”
I'd mourn the Hopes.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Before, beside us, and above
The firefly lights his lamp of love.”
Tour Through Ceylon; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 273.
Hymns
“Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.”
Des pays où personne ne va jamais. Interview of February 1960 with Jean Guenot und Jacques d'Arribehaude.
Reported in Céline à Meudon : transcriptions des entretiens avec Jacques d'Arribehaude et Jean Guenot. Éditions Jean Guenot, 1995 ISBN 2-85405-058-4
“The light in the world comes principally from two sources,—the sun, and the student's lamp.”
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II, p. 16.
“When zeal like incense burns, first the lamp of knowledge must be lighted.”
Heaven Taken By Storm