
Source: Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
The Light Has Gone Out (1948)
Context: The light has gone out, I said, and yet I was wrong. For the light that shone in this country was no ordinary light. The light that has illumined this country for these many years will illumine this country for many more years, and a thousand years later, that light will be seen in this country and the world will see it and it will give solace to innumerable hearts. For that light represented something more than the immediate past, it represented the living, the eternal truths, reminding us of the right path, drawing us from error, taking this ancient country to freedom.
Source: Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters
“The light has gone out of my life.”
Entry in Roosevelt's diary, before which he put a large X, on 14 February 1884, the day in which both his mother and wife died within hours of each other.
1880s
Come Down in Time
Song lyrics, Tumbleweed Connection (1970)
George Fox
Context: There's an ocean of darkness and I drown in the night
till I come through the darkness to the ocean of light,
for the light is forever and the light it is free,
"And I walk in the glory of the light," said he.
“The sun is gone
But I have a light”
Dumb.
Song lyrics, In Utero (1993)
i.e., by super-inducing on the animal instinct the principle of self-consciousness
Aids to Reflection (1873), footnote to Aphorism 106 part 13
"Music When the Lights Go Out" (with Carl Barat)
Lyrics and poetry
“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.”
Source: The Winter of Our Discontent
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 36