Lanterns Quotes
75 quotes by 68 authors
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He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a…
— Cassandra Clare
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God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook
— Nizar Qabbani
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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…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy…
— Alan Moore
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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…
— Virginia Woolf
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We walked at night towards a cafe blooming with Japanese lanterns and I followed your white shoes gleaming like radium in the damp darkness. Rising…
— Zelda Fitzgerald
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As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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And we'd sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the…
— William Faulkner
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But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does…
— J M Coetzee
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Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always…
— Francesca Lia Block
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I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the…
— Wilson Rawls
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Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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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
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She's alone, they kept telling themselves, and surely she danced in no one's arms, yet somehow that seemed to matter less and less. As the…
— Jerry Spinelli
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I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood…
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
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Alex gazed at her. Her mouth was slightly open; she ran her fingernail against her lower teeth as she thought. She'd knotted her hair at…
— L.A. Weatherly
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There was no way that I wanted him to stop touching me, even for a few hours. My pulse thudded as I glanced across at…
— L.A. Weatherly
Who Wrote These Lanterns Quotes
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