Top 83 Candle Darkness Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Candle Darkness

#1. Better to have flamed in the darkness, to have inspired others, to have lived, than to have sat in the darkness, cursing the people who borrowed, but did not return, your candle.

Neil Gaiman

#2. She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

Adlai E. Stevenson II

#3. Since I had peeped over the edge myself, I understand better the meaning of his stare, that could not see the flame of the candle, but was wide enough to embrace the whole universe, piercing enough to penetrate all the hearts that beat in the darkness.

Joseph Conrad

#4. If your mind is misty, your life will be misty; if your mind is sunny, your life will be sunny! Your life will be the reflection of your mind, of your thoughts! If there is a candle in your mind, your life will not know what utter darkness is!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. She wanted to be his candle, to light the darkness in his soul, to burn in the window and show him the way home. She wanted to be his rain, a sweet storm of the senses. She wanted to be his warmth, a solace for his soul.

Alison Kent

#6. There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.

Robert Alden

#7. He tried to scream, but nothing would come out. All he wanted to be was home, safe with his ma and daddy. Hot tears streaked down his grime-covered cheeks.
The candle in his hand sputtered out, and the darkness took him into its cold and empty embrace.

Hunter Shea

#8. Better lite a candle than complain about the darkness

Ajahn Brahm

#9. All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle.

Confucius

#10. You can curse the darkness or light a candle. The choice is yours.

Patrick Kane

#11. When you're sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness - or you can light a candle.

Leonard Ravenhill

#12. What is writing, after all, except fumbling in darkness endeavoring to light a candle?

Peggy Toney Horton

#13. And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared up brighter than ever, lit up for her all that had once been darkness, sputtered, grew dim and went out for ever.

Leo Tolstoy

#14. Remember that in a hall of perfect darkness, totally dark, if you light one small candle, its light will be seen from afar; its precious light will be seen by everyone.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

#15. I'm gonna fall in love with you, Kelly said. His words hung in the darkness, bright as candle flames.

Cara McKenna

#16. A wise man lights a candle while fools are busy cursing the darkness

Seth Czerepak

#17. 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

#18. Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.

Madeleine L'Engle

#19. They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles.

George Carlin

#20. Optimists are intrinsically happier and happiness breeds further happiness. Light a candle rather than curse the darkness and do not wait for someone else to light it; do it yourself.

Natasha Murtagh

#21. Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.

Confucius

#22. Don't wait for anyone to push you up, push yourself up; don't wait for anyone to pull you up, pull yourself up! Your best hero, your greatest savior is yourself! The candle of your darkness is hidden within you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. Gaslight Goods. Let us be your light in the midst of life's darkness, the sunlight in your foggy day, the candle in your wind. This is Kite. How can I help you today?
I grimaced. That was their opener?

Chloe Neill

#24. All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Francis Of Assisi

#25. It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.

Confucius

#26. It is about trying to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness, and loving your life even if it has slipped away

Isabel Gillies

#27. I love the way you lit candles, with the insistence that I never look, just so I can open my eyes and find the light in the darkness.

R. YS Perez

#28. Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

Anne Frank

#29. Every little candle is a great knight fighting against the darkness! Every time you feel yourself tiny, remember these brave candles!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#30. Whenever you see something going well - whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world - look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.

Bill Hybels

#31. God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.

Marian Wright Edelman

#32. Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it.

Israel Meir Kagan

#33. Just as the light of a candle has the power to dispel darkness in a room, so also the light developed in one man can help dispel darkness in several others.

Sayagyi U Ba Khin

#34. You can always meet stupid people in your life journey; you should treat them like the way candle treats darkness: Illuminate them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#35. She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.
But there's a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise.

Victoria Aveyard

#36. You gonna curse the darkness or light a candle?

Terry Hayes

#37. Darkness can always visit us; when it comes, we shall light a candle to welcome it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#38. 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

#39. It isn't useful to curse the darkness; instead light your candle and let your light shine.

Hafsat Abiola

#40. Don't complain about darkness light a candle

Thabiso Monkoe

#41. A million gripes against the darkness will not make a dent in it. But a little candle will.

Khalid Baig

#42. Light a candle against the darkness...

Sylvain Reynard

#43. The darkness might conquer, but it could never extinguish hope. And though one candle, or many, might flicker and die, new candles would be lit from the old. Thus hope's flame always burns, lighting the darkness until the coming of day.

Margaret Weis

#44. Hope is a little candle that continues to flicker in the heart in the darkest moments of impossibility.

Debasish Mridha

#45. They who do not fear darkness have learned to light their own candle.

Dodinsky

#46. ...the shadows thrown by a single candle flame often can be more frightening that total darkness.

Neil Abramson

#47. There isn't enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle.

Gautama Buddha

#48. Life is like a candle, you must light it to see through the darkness.

Thomas F. Shubnell

#49. My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.

Matthew Gray Gubler

#50. There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing
light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

Jodi Picoult

#51. The candle-light was dim, as though the darkness were trying to put it out.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

#52. Fire is the spirit of candle and honesty is the spirit of man. Without spirit, there shall be no light but darkness

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#53. The journey to the light starts with a candle. Once it's lit, darkness has gone forever.

Adriano Bulla

#54. Hope shines like a candle in the darkness. Keep the flame alive.

Debasish Mridha

#55. Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

Benjamin Franklin

#56. How can I light a candle? Before I light this candle, this darkness needs to be thrown out.

Osho

#57. In the very darkness of a stupid society, even a little candle deserves a great honour!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#58. Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.

Fannie Flagg

#59. Saving You
The darkness takes him over,
the sickness pulls him in;
his eyes - a blown out candle,
I wish to go with him.
Sometimes I see a flicker
a light that shone from them;
I hold him to me tightly,
before he's gone again.

Lang Leav

#60. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." ~ Chinese Proverb

Tim Baker

#61. Whole worlds' darkness is not enough to dark the blaze of a candle..

Sarvesh Jain

#62. Life is a like lit candle in the night, when it goes off the darkness continues

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#63. Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me.

Kirk Cameron

#64. Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#65. If one candle is brought into an absolutely dark room, the darkness disappears, and there is light. But if ten or a hundred or a thousand candles are added, the room will become brighter and brighter. Yet the decisive change was brought about by the first candle which penetrated the darkness.57

Erich Fromm

#66. He said,'Trust yourself, mon ami. You are not your friend with his so-sad tale. And Anita is not human. Through us she is more than that. Both of us huddle around her humanity like it is the last candle flame in a world of darkness. But by our very love, we make her less human, and more.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#67. I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.

Ion Keith-Falconer

#68. God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.

Khalil Gibran

#69. Two women, one nigra and one white, whose voices were part of me, whose hands had comforted, soothed, and taught. One a pine-knot torch and the other a scented beeswax candle against the darkness of my ignorance and fear. Both gone.

Ann Rinaldi

#70. If you are talented, don't sit in the darkness, light a candle so that others can see you.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#71. I huddle in the dark with a mass of burnt matches strewn at my feet. And yet, for all of those matches I've not been able to light a single candle. And huddled in such deep darkness, I've somehow yet to realize that Christmas made both matches and candles forever obsolete.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#72. Don't be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#73. You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness.

Mort Sahl

#74. Praying in a Temple is like Lighting a Candle. One kills the ignorance and the other kills the darkness .

Gaurav Rao

#75. What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

Rumi

#76. Life," he said softly, "is more than flesh. Your body is a candle, your soul the flame. The longer I burn the candle..." He did not finish.
"A candle unused is nothing but wax and wick," I said."I would rather light the flame, knowing it will go out than sit forever in darkness.

S. Jae-Jones

#77. Candle needs darkness to show its talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it disappears when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten.

Mehmet Murat Ildan