Top 100 Candle Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.
Katherine Dunham
#3. Lighting your candle in a darken world ... always helps brighten humanity.
Timothy Pina
#4. Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life
Leo Tolstoy
#6. My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
Vera Wang
#7. Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.
Henri Rousseau
#8. It's inspiring to meet that flicker that ignites your candle with the hopes it turns into a torch to pass down to the next generation.
Jes Fuhrmann
#9. When you're doing a show on stage, and they show you a red light, that means you have 5 minutes left. At some clubs, they hold a candle up in the back. That's the worst method. You're up here, and then you see a floating candle. "Oh, no! This place is haunted!" I can't be funny when I'm frightened.
Mitch Hedberg
#10. A candle that lights another does not have to work as hard to bring forth light.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#11. Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.
Jimmy Buffett
#12. The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.
David Mitchell
#13. That was the way with Moldenke, a brightly burning candle with a shortened wick, destined to burn low and give off gas.
David Ohle
#14. Jesus is not a candle. A company in South Dakota is selling candles with the scent of Jesus. You light one and your friends says, Christ, what's that smell?
Bill Maher
#15. None of it could hold a candle to the shit-yourself-fear evoked by a charging abby.
Blake Crouch
#16. Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?
Alan Shepard
#17. Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.
Stephen King
#18. Alone beneath a tallow candle, she allowed herself a shuddering sob, then another. A woman may weep, but not a queen.
George R R Martin
#20. Every Good Friday, this anchored but ever-changing anniversary of my accident, I go to the little creek that saved my life and light one more candle. I offer thanks for two facts: that I am one year older, and that I am one year closer to death.
Andrew Davidson
#21. You read the Company's confidential correspondence?' I asked. He hadn't a word to say. It was great fun. 'When Mr. Kurtz,' I continued severely, 'is General Manager, you won't have the opportunity.' He blew the candle out suddenly, and we went outside. The moon had risen. Black
Joseph Conrad
#22. 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
#23. Not just in America. When I left my primary school, my father said, 'Son, you are now a man,' then he gave me a scented candle and told me how babies are made." Vik fought to keep his lips from twitching.
S.J. Kincaid
#24. You're like a candle in a dark room, throwing light backwards and forwards.
Christopher Barzak
#25. What is writing, after all, except fumbling in darkness endeavoring to light a candle?
Peggy Toney Horton
#26. Life is a very brief candle especially when you burn it at both ends
Josh Stern
#27. Danny Fletcher has a cliched evening in store for you. Italian restaurant, checkered tablecloth. Probably a candle. he'll push the last meatball to you with his nose,
Sally Thorne
#29. The candle-end was flickering out in the battered candlestick, dimly lighting up in the poverty stricken room the murderer and the harlot who had so strangely been reading together the eternal book.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#30. altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out,
Lewis Carroll
#31. Painted mafritty fritters frittering fitty fitty scented candelabra abra cadaver. Candle blah blah.
Fiddles McMonkeypants
#32. So time, you see, is not so precise as many believe," Brynna was saying, lighting a candle. "It is not a solid thing, to be carved into days and hours at our bidding. It is fluid, liquid. It can change as easily as the sea changes, on one day calm and smooth, on another stormy and dangerous.
Shelly Thacker
#33. 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
#34. Not every thought is a candle! Some thoughts can make the world darker!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#35. If the future looks dark, all you have to do is to find a candle and carry it with you! If it looks bright, the best thing to do is still to carry that candle, because the future can always create a different story! Always carry a candle by your side!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#36. She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
Adlai E. Stevenson II
#37. I have a candle on the bus that smells like caramel brownie. I love anything that smells like food!
Carrie Underwood
#39. To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
William Shakespeare
#40. That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
Bear Grylls
#41. We can allow ourselves to pass through the darkest valley without losing our light. One candle can lit millions of other candles, which are willing to receive the light.
Raphael Zernoff
#42. 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
#43. They gave Saint Patrick his own day and what did he do but run out a bunch of snakes. Why, Thomas Edison lit up the world. If it hadn't been for him we'd all still be sitting here in the dark, with nothing but a candle,
Fannie Flagg
#44. Would you say the shapeshifter was in distress?"
"Hell yeah, he was in distress. His tail was on fire."
"He ran like his tail was on fire?"
"No, his tail was on fire. Like a big, furry candle on his ass.
Ilona Andrews
#45. Thinking that we have to always burn our candle at both ends in order to benefit others is perhaps the greatest idiot compassion of all.
Ethan Nichtern
#47. My love is like a candle. Carry me with you and I'll light your path. Forget me and I'll burn your fucking house down. - T-SHIRT
Darynda Jones
#48. Sit down, keep your back straight, relax and have an object on which to concentrate; you might use a candle flame, a brightly colored rock, a yantra, which is a geometrical designed specifically for the practice of concentration.
Frederick Lenz
#49. Those who can truly love, they're like candles; they don't mind sacrificing themselves for the sake of love. But the rest of us are candle holders. We love and appreciate the light of love, but are too afraid to burn ourselves down to light up someone else's life.
Uday Mukerji
#50. Don't blow out someone's candle or you'll both end up in the dark.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#51. Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.
Kristin Cast
#52. Because any Dom knows that the submissive is the one in control. He might wield the crop or the candle wax or the rope, but she holds the reins. Nothing happens without her consent.
Blue Kincaid
#53. He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. "I miss you," Isobel says as he leaves, but the sentiment is crushed by the clatter of the beaded curtain falling closed behind him.
Erin Morgenstern
#54. Andrea Gibson is a truly American poet, or rather, she represents the America I want to live in. Her work lights a candle to lead us where we need to go.
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
#55. The Heart is like a candle,
longing to be lit!
Rumi
#56. Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.
William Penn
#57. Writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.
Alice Childress
#58. Twas said better to light a candle than curse the dark ...
Robert McCammon
#59. That's it. It's all going to end.
The realization wasn't crushing. It was gentle, like a final tendril of smoke from a dying candle.
Brandon Sanderson
#63. We light the candle and ask the Lord Jehovah to illuminate the week ahead. We sprinkle spices into the flame and remind ourselves that the Sabbath should remain a sweet scent in our lives, flavoring the days to come.
Janette Oke
#64. The candle is not lit
To give light, but to testify to the night.
Robert Bly
#65. And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle ...
Tennessee Williams
#66. Private moments held not a candle to coitus, not even the expensive kind of candle that made the whole room smell of far off seasons.
Thomm Quackenbush
#67. Christ hath told us He will come, but not when, that we might never put off our clothes, or put out the candle.
William Gurnall
#68. 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
#69. Never blow out someone else's candle to try and make your one shine brighter
Steven Aitchison
#70. The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.
John Steinbeck
#71. It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
Boris Pasternak
#72. A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle.
Rumi
#73. In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle.
Ken McCarthy
#74. It's like a woman's birthright to knit. It's primal. It's timeless. You don't need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls!
Tracey Ullman
#75. Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness.
Nasir-i Khusraw
#76. She had lived the idea of spreading truth like a fire, like touching a lit candle to another candle and watching its flame come to life, until the whole world was bright and you saw everything clear.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#77. The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.
Steven Wright
#78. Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to our Heavenly Father, they could experience the bright sun of spiritual knowledge that would expand their minds with wisdom and fill their souls with joy?
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#79. I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."
Madeleine L'Engle
#80. 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
#81. One candle can light a thousand other candles and still remain lit itself. Be that candle.
James Altucher
#82. That's all childhood is, after all: strong arms to hold back the dark, a story to keep the shadows dancing, and a candle to mark the long journey into day.
Seanan McGuire
#83. When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
Ralph Marston
#84. You are the candle, love is the light, enlighten the mind, and heart with your empowering light.
Debasish Mridha
#85. When I was seven, I decided to buy all my friends some ice cream, but the problem was where to get the money. Sneaking into church, I went to the side of the altar where you can light a candle for your loved ones and took the money from the collection boxes.
Suzi Quatro
#86. There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robert Alden
#87. read a quote once that said 'when you light a candle, you also cast a shadow
Karen Lynch
#88. You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.
Jeanne Moreau
#89. She absolutely declined to be puzzled; she turned her eyes to the flame of the candle as if the question were as irrelevant, or at any rate as impersonal, as Mrs. Marcet or nine-times-nine.
Henry James
#90. Does it not seem to you at times, when
Twilight walks through the house , that
Right here alongside us is another element,
In which we live quite differently?
("A Candle Is Brought In")
Innokenty Annensky
#91. Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love.
Jane Hirshfield
#92. Life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.
David Wong
#93. I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.
Eric Andre
#94. 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
#95. I'm gonna fall in love with you, Kelly said. His words hung in the darkness, bright as candle flames.
Cara McKenna
#96. 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
#97. Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. Buddha
Deena B. Chopra
#98. When I discarded the idea that God was not a man (as I had been raised to think and believe without question), I grew distant, and the flame that once lit my path began to flicker and hiss like a candle burnt to its wick, making longevity impossible without a new energy source.
B.G. Bowers
#99. Instruction is important but inspiration kindles the candle for a life time.
Debasish Mridha
#100. The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night.
Saib Tabrizi
