Top 77 One Candle Quotes
#1. One candle is like a smile. One little light can start a whole fire. Smile at someone today.
Gail Thackray
#2. 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
#3. A thousand candles can be lit from one candle, however the life of the original candle is not shortened in the least.
Dalai Lama
#4. To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
Jose Bergamin
#5. 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
#6. In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle.
Ken McCarthy
#7. One candle can light a thousand other candles and still remain lit itself. Be that candle.
James Altucher
#8. All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle.
Confucius
#9. Justin Martyr explained the distinction and the sameness of the Father and the Son with the analogy of a candle. The flame can pass from one candle to another without changing in quality or diminishing the first.
Thomas F. Madden
#10. A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.
Mahatma Gandhi
#11. As one candle is lit from the flame of another, so is faith kindled by faith.
Romano Guardini
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Don't get stuck in one candle; find other candles, create other candles!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#15. 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
#16. Every quarter of a century an angel has touched one candle. Every prayer that was offered over the candle was answered. The Christmas Candle has become legendary.
Max Lucado
#17. Thousands of candles can be lit by just one candle, and the life of that candle will not be shorter because of it. Happiness is never diminished by being shared.
Francesc Miralles
#18. To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.
Leo Tolstoy
#19. Lighting one candle
from another -
Winter night
Yosa Buson
#20. One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love.
C.P. Cavafy
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. Never blow out someone else's candle to try and make your one shine brighter
Steven Aitchison
#27. There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robert Alden
#28. 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
#29. He loved the desert because there the wind blew out one's footsteps like candle flames.
Lawrence Durrell
#30. I think the difference between me and some people is that I'm content to do my little bit. Sometimes people think they have to do big things in order to make change. But if each one would light a candle we'd have a tremendous light.
Thea Bowman
#31. 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
#32. Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
Francois Rabelais
#33. In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs and half a candle, One old jug without a handle- These were all the worldly goods.
Edward Lear
#34. One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
Bette Davis
#35. 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
#36. Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies.
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
#37. Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many ...
William Bradford
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives.
[Turning the Page: The future of reading is backlit and bright, Newsweek Magazine, March 25, 2010]
Anna Quindlen
#41. Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#42. I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.
Virginia Woolf
#43. Quietly, he walked towards it with the matchbox in one hand, the candle in the other.
Markus Zusak
#44. I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.
Mitch Hedberg
#45. It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.
Confucius
#46. Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.
David Gemmell
#47. As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.
William Bradford
#48. If there is any truth in the world, it lies when I'm with you, and if I find the courage to speak my truth to you one day, remind me to light a candle in thanksgiving at every altar in Rome.
Andre Aciman
#49. 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
#50. Praying in a Temple is like Lighting a Candle. One kills the ignorance and the other kills the darkness .
Gaurav Rao
#51. I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.
Nadine Gordimer
#52. One thing I've learnt recently is that blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make yours shine any brighter.
Zoe Sugg
#53. 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
#54. A flame that flickered,
And a soul that whimpered,
A candle that blazed,
And a fragrance that raised.
The flames were fed the same,
But one remained diminished,
While the other touched vintage!
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#55. 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
#56. You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle
David Nicholls
#57. 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
#58. There isn't enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle.
Gautama Buddha
#59. I observed a man sourcing candle wax from South America and selling it to Japan. I thought: 'That's unbelievable. Talking on the phone in his office, that man made money moving candle wax from one country to another.' It really interested me.
Ivan Glasenberg
#61. He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.
P.G. Wodehouse
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. When we born, we gonna die one day.
When we lit a candle, it gonna die at the end. When a flower starts to blooming, it gonna be taken anytime. The thing is everything has a end, but it has some reasons. Life is too, live your life with a passion and make your end reasonable.
Saravanan
#65. 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
#66. We say God and the imagination are one ...
How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Wallace Stevens
#67. If Iona's heart were to burst and his misery to flow out, it would flood the whole world, it seems, but yet it is not seen. It has found a hiding-place in such an insignificant shell that one would not have found it with a candle by daylight....
Anton Chekhov
#68. 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
#69. Yet one priest remaining in this country has the same significance as a single candle burning in the catacombs.
Shusaku Endo
#70. 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
#71. A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.
P.G. Wodehouse
#72. Learn how to focus - that creates a lot of power. Focus on a candle flame for 15 minutes or a pretty colored rock, or one point, or a chakra.
Frederick Lenz
#73. He had enlightened Marius by chance and without being aware of the fact, as does a candle which some one brings; he had been the candle and not the some one.
Victor Hugo
#74. I learned without her saying a word that there are truly many ways to pray, and lighting a candle is one of them.
Pat Schneider
#75. Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.
Rene Russo
#76. 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
#77. 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
