Flickering Candle Quotes

#1. But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green chair was still warm from his body, I blew that lonely, flickering candle out

Alice Sebold

#2. Nothing is more satisfying to me than sitting in a dank room, hunched over a single flickering candle like Ebenezer Scrooge, and watching my ledgers fill themselves with ink.

Michael Ian Black

#3. Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

Malcolm Gladwell

#4. It me birthday and nobody came ... Bigfoot decide do something nice for self for big day and sneak in they house at night and pick out own present and blow out flickering candle of life in they brains. Make a wish, jerks.

Graham Roumieu

#5. My life is now nothing more than a flickering candle. The wax is melting and the flame is a small, quivering spark. Soon it'll simply vanish, and I'll finally collapse into the black hole of eternal peace.

Margaret McHeyzer

#6. Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

Jimmy Buffett

#7. 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

#8. What they had between them was still as fragile as flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed.

Cassandra Clare

#9. 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

#10. The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

James Surowiecki

#11. Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.

Irwin Winkler

#12. Herbal medicine's been around for thousands of years! Indeed it has. And then we tested it all, and the stuff that worked became medicine. And the rest of it's just a nice bowl of soup and some pot pourri.

Dara O Briain

#13. Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships

Ruskin Bond

#14. If you do not have the courage to be yourself, what will you be?

The Silver Elves

#15. 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

#16. A good prayer is master of anothers purse.

George Herbert

#17. Every moment age is creeping up stealthily,
but life, life is melting down
like a candle that is flickering around.

Suman Pokhrel

#18. When an author sleeps, her brain creates more stories for her pen.

Evelyn Smith

#19. Belane, are you nuts?
Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?

Charles Bukowski

#20. They do not seek "safety." They seek to destroy.

Anthony M. Esolen

#21. I think all players reach a point in their career where it's natural to lose some of that hunger, that desire, to sort of break out or be a star.

Landon Donovan

#22. There is a type of dream, called a lucid dream, in which you know that you're dreaming.

Michael A. Singer

#23. always wrapped in the mystery of the Merovingian age,

Marcel Proust

#24. I've said to my kids, 'I don't want you to think I jumped away from you and clicked my heels and said bon voyage. It wasn't like that at all. It just about destroyed me.'

Ozzy Osbourne

#25. I am her monster, and she is mine.

Stacey Jay

#26. 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

#27. The truth is I wasn't brought into the world to write newspaper articles. But it's quite likely I was brought into the world to live with a woman.

Albert Camus