Lantern Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old lantern quotes, lantern sayings, and lantern proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

A lantern whose flames would forever erase even the most evanescent of her memory of being venomously orphaned. Nikhil Parekh
Take a lantern, child, to light. William Wordsworth
Empty and dark shall I raise my lantern, and the guardian of the night shall fill it with oil and he shall light it also. Khalil Gibran
A lantern glowing and stars looking down, and the sea smells blowing. Cicely Fox Smith
My job was to be the lantern of unparalleled optimism to each uncontrollably shivering form. Nikhil Parekh
Lit a lantern of love through every vein of my persona. Nikhil Parekh
Where the lantern-light showed 'em arrived. Thomas Hardy
Under the cabin roof was one lantern. The reeds are heavy; bent; and the bamboos speak as if weeping. Ezra Pound
Holding its lantern o'er the restless surge. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the wonderful silence deep, By the flickering lantern light. Andrew Barton Paterson
Seeking for witch-gold lost long ago. By the glimmer of goblin lantern-light. Lucy Maud Montgomery
Underneath the lantern's glow, and a thrilling voice begins to the sound of mandolins? William Makepeace Thackeray
Burnt a smoky lantern covered with soot, the porch smelt of the smouldering wick. Rabindranath Tagore
By the flickering lantern light when the birds are asleep you may catch a sight of old skinny-go-root. Andrew Barton Paterson
We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us. Catherine McAuley`
A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame. Joyce Kilmer
We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us. Rabindranath Tagore
If you light a lantern for another, it will also brighten your own way. Nichiren
The lanterns filled the sky, pulsing with the harmonious light of fireflies, and a great host of ghosts departed from the earth to join them. The higher they rose into the zenith of the heavens, the further night was chased back, until a great and radiant being resumed its throne in the sky. Heather Heffner
Lanterns are like a part of message we transmit to the sky. Fathima Shamla