Top 100 Candle Light Quotes
#1. So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.
Walt Whitman
#2. Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#3. The candle-light was dim, as though the darkness were trying to put it out.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
#5. Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.
Geraldine Brooks
#6. I worship the moon.
Tell me of the soft glow of a
candle light
and the sweetness of my moon.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#7. Crystal ball and candle light, I want your dance tonight. Show me the power of love as we stand together in the middle of the night.
Santosh Kalwar
#8. How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light
Mira Grant
#9. She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is on her knees. She puts her hands on her thighs and breathes in the smell of the sulphur. She imagines she slap breathes in light.
Michael Ondaatje
#10. You can walk in the Light or you can grope around in the dark because there is no walking with Jesus by candle light".
~ R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#11. I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.
Eric Andre
#12. The handful of Germans who had reached the trench had been sacrificed for the stupid sort of fun called. Strategy, probably. Stupid! ... It was, of course, just like German spools to go mining by candle-light. Obsoletely Nibenlungen-like. Dwarfs probably!
Ford Madox Ford
#13. Karl ached to stroke her, to explore her delicate features with his hand and reveal what the paltry candle light could not; the feel of her hair, the curvature of her neck, the warmth of her skin.
Jack Croxall
#14. Emotions would be half starved if there were no candle-light.
Thomas Hardy
#15. By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
Jonathan Swift
#16. When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur my verses, a wonder in your eyes, 'Ronsard sang of me in the days when I was fair.
Pierre De Ronsard
#17. Man is the candle light and a woman is the moonlight. They live far away but can grow together during lonesome nights.
Santosh Kalwar
#18. Let us be happy too when we see a happy man, because happiness is a candle light in this dark universe!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#19. 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
#20. You should either be like the candle that produces light or you live like mirror which reflects it. Pray for love; Sow love, Show love and Share love!
Israelmore Ayivor
#21. Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire
Marilyn Manson
#22. If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.
Newt Gingrich
#23. A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side.
Michael Cunningham
#24. I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.
Richard Brautigan
#25. 'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.
Jeph Jacques
#26. A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#28. The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.
Benjamin Franklin
#29. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." ~ Chinese Proverb
Tim Baker
#30. Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.
Roger Waters
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.
Richard Sibbes
#34. How can I light a candle? Before I light this candle, this darkness needs to be thrown out.
Osho
#36. I bent over her and kissed her lips. She embraced me, and we remained like that as the light from the candle sputtered then went out.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#37. A feeble orange light was flickering in the allotments, low down near the ground. Laura looked hopefully towards it. It was a huge pumpkin, its flesh brick-red, its mouth cut into a crude gash, candle- flame dancing through slits for eyes. There was no sign of Autumn.
Sanjida Kay
#38. The journey to the light starts with a candle. Once it's lit, darkness has gone forever.
Adriano Bulla
#39. 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
#40. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare
#41. We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
Bill Bryson
#42. If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.
Steven Tyler
#43. Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light Itself ...
Philip Jose Farmer
#44. 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
#45. One candle is like a smile. One little light can start a whole fire. Smile at someone today.
Gail Thackray
#46. The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light ... It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence.
Marilynne Robinson
#47. The sharia is like a candle," said Shams of Tabriz. "It provides us with much valuable light. But let us not forget that a candle helps us to go from one place to another in the dark. If we forget where we are headed and instead concentrate on the candle, what good is it?
Elif Shafak
#48. My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.
Matthew Gray Gubler
#49. A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#50. It is better to light a candle than complain about the dark'
Ancient Spiritual wisdom now attributed to Mahatma Gandhi but I have read it elsewhere.
Unknown
#51. It was like working in a dark cave with the aid of a single candle. Just when you thought you had spotted the white light of Truth, you would chase it, only to discover that it was someone else, also holding a candle, also looking for the light. A
Thomas L. Friedman
#52. I've attempted to flood the path with light where I could, and where I could not I've wanted at least to hold up a candle so that others coming this way might not stumble too painfully.
Jim Beaver
#53. Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.
George D. Prentice
#54. It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark
In the eyes of the youth, there are question marks
K'naan
#55. A wizard's power of Changing and of Summoning can shake the balance of the world. It is dangerous, that power. It is most perilous. It must follow knowledge, and serve need. To light a candle is to cast a shadow ...
Ursula K. Le Guin
#56. Don't be fooled by my beauty -
the light of my face
comes from the candle of my spirit.
Rumi
#57. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#58. 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
#59. Life is like a candle, you must light it to see through the darkness.
Thomas F. Shubnell
#60. I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#61. There isn't enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle.
Gautama Buddha
#62. They who do not fear darkness have learned to light their own candle.
Dodinsky
#63. I am not yours, nor lost in you, not lost, although I long to be. Lost as a candle lit at noon, lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still a spirit beautiful and bright, yet I am I, who long to be lost as a light is lost in light.
Sara Teasdale
#64. My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#65. We nurture the candle flames that show the way ahead. We are guerrillas of the word, unsung heroes breathing softly on the embers of the human mind, so that they might re-ignite the hearths around which we once found safe haven. The book is the Light and the Life.
Mark Cantrell
#66. The candle inside will eventually burn out; the question is: did it light the path for those following us?
Orrin Woodward
#67. Writing in the dark is hard, but you have to light your own candle and do it anyway.
A.D. Posey
#68. Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.
Rumi
#69. A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.
James Keller
#71. The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.
Irving Greenberg
#72. Don't criticize or curse at darkness; be wise and never forget to light a candle.
Debasish Mridha
#73. St. Catherine of Siena once said, 'If you are what you should be, you will set the whole world ablaze.' But," I turned to him urgently, "how can I even light a single candle if someone blocks off the first step?
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#75. Where others saw gloom, I saw light or lit a candle.
G.R. Gopinath
#76. In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.
Al Gore
#78. On Hanukkah, the first dark night,
Light yourself a candle bright.
I'll you, if you will me invite
To dance within that gentle light.
Nick Gordon
#79. When all seems dark and there is no light,
Hope is the candle that always burns bright.
Divya Singh
#80. Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.
Leo Tolstoy
#82. It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#83. 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
#86. Don't be discouraged by your incapacity to dispel darkness from the world. Light your little candle and step forward.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#88. 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
#89. Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.
Abdu'l- Baha
#90. The Wanderer
What is she like?
I was told
she is a
melancholy soul.
She is like
the sun to the night;
a momentary gold.
A star when dimmed
by dawning light;
the flicker of
a candle blown.
A lonely kite
lost in flight
someone once
had flown.
Lang Leav
#91. If you are talented, don't sit in the darkness, light a candle so that others can see you.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#92. The rule of thumb is: the lower the temperature of the light, the more hygge. A camera flash is around 5,500 Kelvin (K), fluorescent tubes are 5,000K, incandescent lamps 3,000K, while sunsets and wood and candle flames are about 1,800K. That is your hygge sweet spot. The
Meik Wiking
#93. Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
James Russell Lowell
#94. Enticing hope is like lighting candle in the dark room
Aftab Alam
#95. My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.
Iggy Pop
#96. Light a candle for me, I used to whisper to no one.
Someone
Anyone
If you're out there
Please tell me you can feel this fire.
Tahereh Mafi
#97. 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
#99. 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
#100. Here comes a candle to light you to bed, and here comes a chopper to chop off your head.
Neil Gaiman
