Top 100 Quotes About Candles
#1. A need for many candles may arise in every nation's history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#2. My home is my castle, and I spend a lot of time nurturing it, redecorating - moving this and adjusting that, adding flowers and candles.
Evangeline Lilly
#3. The entrance ramp had been blocked by an overturned semi. Bright-burning flares had been scattered around it like birthday candles on some idiot child's cake.
Stephen King
#4. I'm a minimalist Jew, but on Friday night, I celebrate Shabbat. At sundown, we light candles, say the blessing, and I don't turn on my computer for 24 hours.
Jill Soloway
#5. I'm thinking we should have a vibrator ceremony. Maybe we can all stand around in
the dead of night, carrying candles and chanting while she buries them in her backyard,
Kristen Ashley
#6. A dozen great fires raged under the city walls, where casks of burning pitch had exploded, but the wildfire reduced them to no more than candles in a burning house, their orange and scarlet pennons fluttering insignificantly against the jade holocaust.
George R R Martin
#7. People think I am dead because they haven't seen me around for awhile. I'm not dead, I'm very much alive, as you can see. Although, there are two things I do before I get up every morning. I look around and if I don't smell flowers or see candles flickering I go ahead and get up.
Red Skelton
#8. I have way too many candles. There's always a candle burning at home.
Erin Heatherton
#9. I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.
Paul McCartney
#10. I put the Fifth of November and the Fourth of July to shame. Who needs Roman candles when you've got me?
Joe Hill
#11. I am not forsaken! I'm no longer alone in the darkness! Before my eyes I see a thousand little devils lighting black candles along the path which leads toward the edge ... the blindingly beautiful edge.
Susan Kay
#12. The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.
George R R Martin
#13. I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guests feel like it's not formal and they can relax in my home.
Karen Elson
#14. I lit the candles and said out loud, "what am I waiting on? Someone to sell them in a garage sale for a quarter after I die?" And it was beautiful. And the smell was even more incredible than I remembered.
Paula Heller Garland
#15. Each of us, Leonard Read said, must become candles of liberty in the darkness of collectivist ideas. The brighter we each shine through our understanding and ability to articulate the meaning of freedom, the more we will be beacons that can attract others.
Richard Ebeling
#16. There was a flash of lightning, followed almost immediately by a rumble of distant thunder. Madame Tracy felt rather proud, as if she had done it herself. It was even better than the candles at creating ambulance. Ambulance was what mediuming was all about.
Terry Pratchett
#17. A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.
Jennifer Lopez
#19. The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles.
Rumi
#20. The village was shutting its eyes. Candles and lamps were being put out everywhere: she could inwardly behold the extinguisher and the extended hand.
Thomas Hardy
#21. People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
Irwin Shaw
#22. And now, a heap of roses
beside the sea, white rugosa
beside the foaming hem of shore:
brave,
waxen candles ...
And we talk
as if death were a line to be crossed.
Look at them, the white roses.
Tell me where they end.
Mark Doty
#23. We do have a love fest [at home]. It's like, 'I'm making you a cupcake.' Then it's like, 'Well, I made you a cake.' And it's like, 'Well I made you a cake with a cupcake on top and candles.'
Dianna Agron
#24. Wow," I remarked to an older man who
had just turned away from a group. "That's
what I call a birthday cake. You think
someone's going to jump out of that thing?"
"Hope not," he said in a gravelly voice.
"They might catch fire from all the candles.
Lisa Kleypas
#25. One candle can light a thousand other candles and still remain lit itself. Be that candle.
James Altucher
#26. Those who make candles will find it a great improvement to steep the wicks in lime-water and saltpetre, and dry them. The flame is clearer, and the tallow will not 'run.
Lydia Maria Francis Child
#27. I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.
Joan Collins
#28. The only people that interest me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing.. but burn, burn, burn like roman candles across the night. Allen
Jack Kerouac
#29. In the Land of Romance, cheap candles are more valuable than ingots of gold.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. We are candles, I remember thinking, and the wind is rising.
Lynn Schooler
#31. Inside plum trees stood in a row, flowers lifted their pale throats to the moon and stars, a magnolia held its tight-closed buds like white candles in its green hands.
Marisa De Los Santos
#32. October 31st dawned damp and cold, but by nine in the morning the misty rain had dissipated, and blue sky broke through. By eleven the sun had dried the leaves to crisp colors, and the world smelled of apples and burning wood smoke and candles and pumpkin innards.
Chet Williamson
#33. Her eyes flashed orange for a half-second and that gruesome and horrifying sight reminded me of the candles being lit on a grinning jack-o-lantern, if said jack-o-lantern was salivating.
Sharon Stevenson
#34. Sammy suns?" Sam laughed derisively. "They might as well be candles.
Michael Grant
#35. Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.
Meryl Streep
#36. A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)
Edgar Allan Poe
#37. Why can I not stop talking? Livia watched as Cole set the dripping candles on a small table. If I die of embarrassment, they can have my funeral right here.
Debra Anastasia
#38. At Wimbledon, the ladies are simply the candles on the cake.
John Newcombe
#39. Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.
Daniel Johns
#40. Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But perhaps we are concentrating on lighting the world because we don't know how to light up our own lives.
Ralph Levy
#41. 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
#42. I'm a great lighter and lover of candles, particularly fragranced ones, as I'm kind of addicted to scent.
Deirdre O'Kane
#43. I love having candles, especially when you get downtime. I could just pass out seeing the flame flicker with the lights off.
Kellan Lutz
#44. When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
John Heywood
#45. 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
#46. Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream ... and I set up all these candles on the bridge. But when I called her and told her she said it was too dark and she wasn't coming out.
Harry Styles
#47. Old age is the time when birthday candles cost more than the birthday cake itself, and half of your urine is wasted on medical testing.
Faina Ranevskaya
#48. I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.
Sylvia Plath
#49. Quentin knew he wasn't happy. Why not? He had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles, made the sacrifices. But happiness, like a disobedient spirit, refused to come.
Anonymous
#50. Unhappy times are the best for levity. You don't light candles in the middle of the day, do you?
Joe Abercrombie
#52. But most often she watched the candles as if their outcome held her own, the flames almost extinguishing themselves, but, by some greed of oxygen, persisting.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#53. Everything is lit with glowing chandeliers and copious candles, so that the light is not bright but deep and warm and bubbling.
Erin Morgenstern
#54. I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.
Benjamin Franklin
#55. When the candles are out all women are fair.
Plutarch
#56. If Thomas Edison had gone to business school, we would all be reading by larger candles.
Mark McCormack
#57. She isn't my mother." He meant, of course, by simple mathematical extension, that his mother wasn't Teddy's mother either. Which meant that Bernadette, for whom he had lit a thousand candles, was the mother to whom his enormous love and devotion had no claim.
Ann Patchett
#58. You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander around. Hundreds of them.
Joseph Kanon
#59. Jacki Smith is a masterful artist of magickal candles. I've enjoyed her blend of strong magickal intentions and great smelling scents in her products. To have her wisdom in a book is a treasure!
Christopher Penczak
#60. On September twentieth every year, I got to choose my menu - meatloaf, corn niblets, and rice were followed by candles on chocolate cake with vanilla icing and a scoop of Brock-Hall ice cream.
Donald Hall
#62. Create a good idea and leave it in the darkness; you will then see that people will come with the candles in their hands to find it, because just like the bad, the good has also a special scent!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#63. Wounds are said to emit light under certain conditions - touch them and the brightness will stay on the hands - and as candles burn Rohan thinks of each flame as an injury somewhere in his house.
Nadeem Aslam
#64. How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.
Jean Ingelow
#65. 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
#67. I found the candles - atrocious air freshening ones that smelled like fake pine.
Richelle Mead
#68. He exuded wisdom-even the wisest ... were pale, flickering candles next to the nourishing solar illumination of [his] insights.
Aprilynne Pike
#69. I wasn't expecting him to light candles or scatter rose petals. But I just made myself infertile for him, so the
least he could've done was make the bed.
Daria Snadowsky
#70. She waited uneasily and shyly. From afar he saw that her eyes
clearly her father's
were filled with desperate innocence. He pictured, in her, his own redemption. Violins and lit candles revolved in the sky. Leo ran forward with flowers out-thrust.
Bernard Malamud
#71. I knew Catholics existed, with their saints and candles and rosaries, and all their other exotic ways of being wrong.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#72. We meditate so that our minds can be sharp and alert. We chant mantras so that your souls may be ignited like candles. We walk in the light of this beauty.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#73. Occasionally, once a speaker is on his feet, it is difficult to get him to sit down ... If and when he returns to earth, he notices half of the room is paging the other half and a few are playing with the melted candles.
Erma Bombeck
#74. It's lovely, the way wishes are added to it, by lighting candles with ones that are already lit and adding them to the branches. New wishes ignited by old wishes.
Erin Morgenstern
#75. It's odd, isn't it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it's a person you love, you think everyone should stop and take notice. That they ought to cry and light candles and tell you that you're not alone.
Kristina McMorris
#76. Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from one man to another, from one house to another, and to the whole House of Israel throughout the generations.
Judah Leon Magnes
#77. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Budha
#78. Lightning rods guarding some graves denoted dead who rested uneasily; stumps of burned-out candles stood at the heads of infant graves. It was a happy cemetery.
Harper Lee
#79. The dream of coming back is becoming a reality. A lot of the uncertainty about the future has been cleared up. A lot of people are no longer cursing the darkness and have started lighting candles and doing positive things.
Paul Tagliabue
#80. Every night I bring home flowers and burn candles. And I have a real sense that home is what starts everything inside of you.
Evangeline Lilly
#81. The day of judgment is either approaching or
it is not. If it is not, there is no cause for adjournment. If it is, I
choose to be found doing my duty. I wish therefore that candles may be
brought.
Alistair Cooke
#82. The days of the future stand in fornt of us
Like a line of candles all alight
Golden and warm and lively little candles
The days that are past are left behind
Constantine P. Cavafy
#83. Five white candles surrounded my summoning circle, the points of an invisible pentacle. White for protection. And because they're the cheapest color at Wal-Mart.
Jim Butcher
#84. We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit.
Robert H. Shaffer
#85. It had been agreed between them that lighted candles at wayside inns, in strange countries amid mountain scenery, gave the evening meal a peculiar poetry.
Henry James
#86. You know what I think? I think that if a young woman doesn't engage in the act of occasionally wishing on a star or a flower or a birthday cake full of candles, then we're forfeiting one of the sweetest whimsies of our youth.
Robin Jones Gunn
#87. How I would like to believe in tenderness
The face of the effigy, gentled by candles,
Bending, on me in particular, its mild eyes.
Sylvia Plath
#88. Mom: Billy, at your birthday party you'll have a cake with five candles! Billy: I know, mommy, but I want five cakes with a candle. ***
Various
#90. You haven't heard a damn word I've said. See, this is why I can't stand your kinds. You light your candles and mumble your latin spells and pray to a god who isn't there, doesn't care, or is just plain crazy or cruel or both. The world burns and you praise the asshole who either set it or let it.
Rick Yancey
#91. I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung, and Christianity and candles have been introduced.
Henry David Thoreau
#92. Walking into the great hall for the first time was absolutely incredible - all these effects with all the candles floating in the air, all lit and everything, food on the table, all the flambeaus were lit - it was just incredible, it was the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life.
Rupert Grint
#93. O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host
Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.
William Butler Yeats
#94. I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.
Anne Lamott
#95. In this life, we are not garments which may be washed and worn again, Karris. We are candles, giving light and heat until we are consumed. You burned more brightly than most. It has a cost. Mediocrities like me? Dim flames burn longer.
Brent Weeks
#96. I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.
Traci Bingham
#97. We have a very limited time on Earth; the times we spent with the candles are always special and magical times!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#98. It's time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake.
Louie Giglio
#99. In January 2006, Phantom of The Opera broke the record for the longest-running show in Broadway history, overtaking Cats and reminding us what real entertainment is about: candles, dry ice, big hair, and the sort of synthesized chord progressions only achieved by a collapse at the keyboard.
Emma Brockes
#100. I had to get by the flower beds he's planted, the flowers in vases, candles, the potpourri in the powder room - "
"Mother of God! Potpourri in the powder room. We need to get a posse together ASAP, go get him. He can be deprogrammed. Don't lose hope.
Nora Roberts
