Top 100 Like A Candle Quotes
#1. 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
#2. She was like a candle that just went out. All the circles that made her up suddenly got lopsided and warped.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#3. People who are excited by posthumous fame forget that the people who remember them will soon die too. And those after them in turn. Until their memory, passed from one to another like a candle flame, gutters and goes out.
Marcus Aurelius
#4. Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away.
William Butler Yeats
#5. Just someone who gets bounced around in whatever position needs to be filled, used and used like a candle on a moonless night until I burn away into a puddle of compliance and obedience.
Sara Raasch
#6. Every moment age is creeping up stealthily,
but life, life is melting down
like a candle that is flickering around.
Suman Pokhrel
#7. 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
#8. The Heart is like a candle,
longing to be lit!
Rumi
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. You're like a candle in a dark room, throwing light backwards and forwards.
Christopher Barzak
#12. 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
#13. It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.
Laurence Sterne
#14. Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.
Dylan Thomas
#15. Don't you see? Your mortal heart shines like a candle flame and I, like one of those hapless black moths you used to leave as an offering, am helpless before its lure.
Robin LaFevers
#16. A wise word of a stupid man is just a myth! A rock cannot emit light like a candle!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#17. If we hearken to counsel, we shall be the best people in the world; we shall be as a bright light set upon a hill, that cannot be hid, or like a candle upon a candlestick.
Brigham Young
#18. A teacher is like a candle that lights others by consuming itself.
Giovanni Ruffini
#19. An ideal first date should involve things like a candle-lit dinner, soft music, and a binary anal defibrillator, with a guest appearance by Renaldo.
Jarod Kintz
#20. Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.
Anthony Rapp
#21. The music paled like a candle and went out ...
Stella Benson
#22. 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
#23. Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it.
Elton John
#24. A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#25. 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
#26. Life is like a candle, you must light it to see through the darkness.
Thomas F. Shubnell
#27. I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul.
Rumi
#28. In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the Devon School came into existence the day i entered it, was vibrantly real while i was a student there, and then blinked out like a candle the day I left
John Knowles
#29. Hope shines like a candle in the darkness. Keep the flame alive.
Debasish Mridha
#30. Get burnt like a candle, very hard to handle,
Do miracles in Nikes like Jesus did in sandals.
MF Grimm
#31. A person is like a candle... And in any second that candle and be blown. Live the moment with your loved one before its too late, before the candle is blown and its gone forever with no trace.
Grace
#32. Shine like a candle of love to enlighten the world like the moon.
Debasish Mridha
#33. Such dreary streets! blocks of blackness, not houses, on either hand, and here and there a candle, like a candle moving about in a tomb.
Herman Melville
#34. Stay simple like a candle, and never forget to enlighten the world.
Debasish Mridha
#36. Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.
Frances Osborne
#37. No matter how long I live, I will always remember the way the light went out of her eyes, like a candle flame caught in an unexpected wind.
Jodi Picoult
#38. Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.
Charles Dickens
#39. I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.
Xaviera Hollander
#40. 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
#41. A teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself.
Elizabeth George
#42. We cannot use a supposedly objective historical epistemology as the ultimate ground for the truth of Easter. To do so would be like someone who lit a candle to see whether the sun had risen.
N. T. Wright
#43. I have a candle on the bus that smells like caramel brownie. I love anything that smells like food!
Carrie Underwood
#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. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurt you. Finally it goes off and everything is darker than ever and all you are left with is the.. BURN!
Syed Arshad
#49. Then slowly, as his erratic shape approached the next guttering aura he would begin by degrees to become a silhouette, until immediately before the candle he would for a moment appear like an inky scarecrow, a mantis of pitch-black cardboard worked with strings.
Mervyn Peake
#50. Wings - -vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame.
Laini Taylor
#51. Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.
Terry Pratchett
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Venice took on the feeling of a city paved with black glass, the odd lantern, torch, or candle reflecting in the canals like distant windows into hell, the crescent moon throwing silver scythes across the water where it could find its way between buildings.
Christopher Moore
#55. You entered like a spark and lightened my candle called life. You will continue to burn until I melt don't completely.
Vignesh S.V
#56. Thinking that God wants something from us is like showing a candle to the sun.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#57. Dad had once said, Trust your mind, Rob. If it smells like shit but has writing across it that says Happy Birthday and a candle stuck down in it, what is it?
Is there icing on it? he'd said.
Dad had done that thing of squinting his eyes when an answer was not quite there yet.
George Saunders
#58. I am Desire, am I not? That is what I am; that is what I do. I make things want things. Where I touch, things want and need and love - drawn to their objects of desire like butterflies to a candle-flame.
Neil Gaiman
#59. Attempting to understand consciousness with your mind, is like trying to illuminate the sun with a candle ...
Mooji
#60. I'm very romantic when I masturbate. Sometimes I light a candle ... then I try and shoot it out. It's like a carnival.
Dave Attell
#61. My eyes kept skipping back to her, drawn to her face like a lone candle flame in the dark
Alexandra Bracken
#62. Even the reeking dark in the lion's cage seemed precious and infinitely preferable to whatever lay beyond. She would go out like the flame of a candle. Where does the candle flame go when the candle is blown out?
She laid her painted face against the iron bars and bared her teeth at death.
Kerry Greenwood
#64. 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
#65. You don't fade from within my mind; it's a flaw
That I dwell on each moment, cling to you
Like smoke escaping my fingers while the candles burn them raw
Sreesha Divakaran
#66. The sensation I
had experienced vanished like smoke from a snuffed candle, leaving behind wisps of nameless
longing.
Julianne Donaldson
#67. Like the moth whose feet are caught in the molten wax of a candle, Rouget rapidly used up his remaining energy.
Honore De Balzac
#68. 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.
Miguel De Cervantes
#69. Cinder stood, staring. All her senses were attuned to Wolf, focused on the energy and emotions that clouded around him. It was like watching a candle extinguish.
It was like watching him die
Marissa Meyer
#70. The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle.
Herb Caen
#71. She walked on and on till she melted out of the picture - like - like a shadow jumping over a candle ...
Rudyard Kipling
#72. The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.
Janet Fitch
#73. Praying in a Temple is like Lighting a Candle. One kills the ignorance and the other kills the darkness .
Gaurav Rao
#74. Did you see her?" the Marid said nervously, looking at her with great dark eyes. "Our daughter. Standing on the Gear. Dis you see her?"
"What?" said September - and then she winked out, like someone blowing out a candle, and all the field was still.
Catherynne M Valente
#75. She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
Lewis Carroll
#76. If I sneezed, writers' vitals would spew out my nose like bats from a cave mouth, fiery balls from a roman candle, water from an open fire hydrant.
Dennis Vickers
#78. He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun
Rumi
#79. We were like two moths around a candle, I thought, circling closer and closer to the flame, waiting to see whose wings would catch fire first.
Tan Twan Eng
#80. One candle is like a smile. One little light can start a whole fire. Smile at someone today.
Gail Thackray
#81. 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
#82. love and distance can be compared to fire and air. If the fire is like that of a candle a simple puff of ordinary air will extinguish it: but if the fire is a raging wildfire, then the wind will only fuel it to grow stronger.
Santana Blair
#83. A candle is like a small sun, but the sun is like a large candle; examined closely, language turns out to operate through the lateral associations of metaphor, rather than through the vertical identifications of naming.
Jonathan Franzen
#84. 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
#85. 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
#86. As it began, rain ended quickly in Yorkshire. There was no gradual waning of water, no silent mist to ease the way from heavy drops to dry skies. Instead, there was a simple change, like the snuffing of a candle. One moment, there was pounding rain, and the next ... silence.
Sarah MacLean
#87. 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
#88. Nothing against comedy clubs, they work. But when you're sitting with a tablecloth and a candle and an appetizer menu, three-drink minimum, it can feel more like a dinner theater than a live experience.
Doug Stanhope
#89. Denis's love for Mattia had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.
Paolo Giordano
#90. 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
#91. If I had my life to live over I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.
Erma Bombeck
#92. 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
#93. I understood in a moment of stillness,' Litima read. 'Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate.
Brandon Sanderson
#94. 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
#95. To propel a dirigible balloon through the air is like pushing a candle through a brick wall.
Alberto Santos-Dumont
#96. His round cheeks are of a red that seems to glow from within, as if he had a lit candle in his mouth like a paper lantern at a summer fete.
Joseph Roth
#97. Carry your bag by yourself; carry your umbrella by yourself; open your door by yourself; light your own candle! Do your job by yourself! Don't use others! Don't behave like a king, don't behave like a queen! Be humble!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#98. Her boyfriend can't hold a candle to me. Especially not while I'm holding the strobe light. It's hard to do modern dancing when you're living like it's 1882. Still, I make it look pretty easy.
Jarod Kintz
#99. ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.
Mitch Albom
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