A Burning Candle Quotes

#1. If lighthouse becomes a burning candle,
flickered upon ocean's insanity.
Your sailing heart there anchors to handle
the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity.

Munia Khan

#2. I am afraid for my health. I'm definitely burning the candle a little, at both ends, and I have to be careful about that.

Zachary Levi

#3. Is it eradicating evil? Or are we like children, left alone in the house at night, who light candle after candle to keep away the darkness. We don't see that the darkness has a purpose - though we may not understand it - and so, in our terror, we end up burning down the house!

Margaret Weis

#4. I have way too many candles. There's always a candle burning at home.

Erin Heatherton

#5. Magnus thought of James Herondale, burning up with too much light, too much love,too much, too much- while the boy in the portrait was as lovely as a dying poet, with the fragile beauty of a candle about to gutter out.

Cassandra Clare

#6. What binds a wife to her husband is neither magic, nor a priest, nor love! What makes this possible is only silver coins! A woman's heart is like a candle, my friend. As long as the money wick keeps burning, her heart stays warm. But when the wick burns down, her love is extinguished!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. That was the way with Moldenke, a brightly burning candle with a shortened wick, destined to burn low and give off gas.

David Ohle

#8. Wind comes in, your candle tips over and flares up, and a loose tent-flap catches fire, and through the widening black-edged gap you can see the eyes of the howlers, red and shining in the light from your burning paper shelter, but you keep on writing anyway because what else can you do?

Margaret Atwood

#9. When life descends into the pit
I must become my own candle
Willingly burning my self
To light up the darkness around me.

Alice Walker

#10. Yet one priest remaining in this country has the same significance as a single candle burning in the catacombs.

Shusaku Endo

#11. People need to realize that only what is done for Christ will count. Life is short, and we need to be sure we are burning our candle for God I

John Shorey

#12. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it?

Annie Dillard

#13. Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#14. I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment,
His burning candle consumed me - the moth;
His wine overwhelmed my goblet,
The master of Rum transmuted my earth to gold
And set my ashes aflame.

Muhammad Iqbal

#15. For a long time, Oliver remained motionless in this attitude. The candle was burning low in the socket when he rose to his feet. Having gazed cautiously round him, and listened intently, he gently undid the fastenings of the door, and looked abroad.

Charles Dickens

#16. He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.

Ray Bradbury

#17. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it? But the world without light is wasteland and chaos, and a life without sacrifice is abomination.

Annie Dillard

#18. Hope is a flicker, a candle flame kept burning by the simple act of breathing.

Joan Clark

#19. Love is not a candle burning down. Life is. And love and life are not the same or else Love, having choice, nobody would ever die.

Charles Bukowski

#20. The advice I would give to my younger self is very, very simple: Stop burning the candle at both ends and renew your estranged relationship with sleep. You will be more productive, more effective, more creative, and more likely to enjoy your life.

Arianna Huffington

#21. The candle-end had long been burning out in the bent candlestick, casting a dim light in this destitute room upon the murderer and the harlot strangely come together over the reading of the eternal book.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#22. The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.

Wes Fesler

#23. Our precious time together feels like a candle with wicks burning at both ends. Once the flame meets in the middle, we're over.

Georgia Cates

#24. From now on I will make burning my aim, For I am like the candle: burning only makes me brighter.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#25. 4.07 WALK OF LIFE
A candle without fire cannot be burning,
Man without a spiritual life cannot be living,
Yet sitting quietly and nothing even if doing,
Spring will come and grass will be growing.
[76] - 4

Munindra Misra

#26. Knowing what you know, be serene also, like a mountain; and do not be distressed by misfortune. Knowledge without serenity is an unlit candle; together they are honey-comb; honey without wax is a noble thing; wax without honey is only fit for burning.

Sanai

#27. Maybe Michael left a candle burning. Maybe be forgot to turn off his iron, or the oven. Maybe he left his dishwasher running and it was flooding the place, or a thirsty plant desperately needed water.
Maybe I was way out of line.

Myra McEntire

#28. To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

Leo Tolstoy

#29. In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

Christopher Hitchens

#30. What does she look like?" he asked again, his voice taking on a tinny phonograph quality as his sister consumed my attention.
"A candle flame that can't decide if it has the strength to keep burning.

Cat Winters

#31. I have always been suspicious of the phrase, the glow of pregnancy, and my suspicions were only confirmed by Lillian's appearance. Instead of a glow, her whole body seemed to become more and more dull, sallow and sickly sweet and vague, like a candle burning out or a line of smudged writing.

John Burnside

#32. Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind.

Amy Bloom

#33. To truly be of service to others, we must first serve the server. The ability to bring an enlightened presence to those in need is the ability to light a candle without burning ourselves out.

Bill Crawford