“Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
"Nephelidia", line 16, from The Heptalogia (1880); Swinburne intended "Nephelidia" as a self-parody.
“Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun.”
Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451
“The light in the world comes principally from two sources,—the sun, and the student's lamp.”
Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American writer
Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume II, p. 16.
Starhawk (1951) American author, activist and Neopagan
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)
“Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.”
Louis-ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) French writer
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
“Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations.”
Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1917–2008) Inventor of Transcendental Meditation, musician
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.
“For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.”
Alan Paton book Cry, the Beloved Country
Source: Cry, the Beloved Country
Aung San Suu Kyi (1945) State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National League for Democracy
Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women, Beijing China (1995)
