Top 100 Sayings About A Candle
#3. I am so grateful for after-school snack time, when I light a candle, pour some tea, slice some apples, and get to listen in on my kids' highs and lows of the day.
Laurie David
#4. First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.
A.M. Jenkins
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. I promise to keep her secure. Then I took two large wads a candle wax, kneaded them into earplugs, and stuff them into my ears. Annabeth nodded sarcastically, letting me know the air plugs are a real fashion statement. I made a face at her ...
Rick Riordan
#8. Sit in front of an object of concentration with the eyes open. Focus on a candle flame, or a yantra, a little dot, something small. Just look at it. Focus on it until there is nothing else in your mind. This develops willpower.
Frederick Lenz
#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. 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
#11. Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love.
Jane Hirshfield
#12. 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
#13. He knew how she felt. It was the way he felt himself, sometimes, if he woke in the small hours, at three a.m., a time when the world seemed empty and stripped of comforting illusion. A time when you knew you were a mote, transient and fragile in a vast universe, a candle flame in an empty hall.
Terry Pratchett
#14. 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
#15. And right now he and Douglas were hiking out beyond town on another warm and marble-round day, the sky blue blown-glass reaching high, the creeks bright with mirror waters fanning over white stones. It was a day as perfect as the flame of a candle.
Ray Bradbury
#16. So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear: There is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.
Michelle Malkin
#17. Like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to until the rain set it.
Elton John
#18. She was like a candle that just went out. All the circles that made her up suddenly got lopsided and warped.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#19. Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.
Muhammad Naguib
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. I have way too many candles. There's always a candle burning at home.
Erin Heatherton
#23. The happier ending is Twin Peaks is still out there. Waiting, watchful, alive. Haunted, full of shivers and delights, a candle glimpsed in a log cabin window, while passing through a few and darkening wood.
Some dreams survive.
Mark Frost
#24. You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.
Frederick Lenz
#25. When you're sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness - or you can light a candle.
Leonard Ravenhill
#26. If you want to inform yourselves as to the nature of hell, don't hold your hand in a candle flame, just ponder the meanest, most desolate place in your soul.
Marilynne Robinson
#27. You can curse the darkness or light a candle. The choice is yours.
Patrick Kane
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. A candle that lights another no longer has to work twice as hard to illuminate a room.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#31. A candle, a book and a peaceful person mean three candles for the world!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#32. At night a candle's brighter than the sun
Sting
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. God gave each of us a soul, which is a candle that He gives us to illuminate our surroundings with His light," the Rebbe taught at a 1990 worldwide Chanukah satellite linkup. "We must not only illuminate the inside of homes, but also the outside, and the world at large.
Joseph Telushkin
#36. 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
#37. Every moment age is creeping up stealthily,
but life, life is melting down
like a candle that is flickering around.
Suman Pokhrel
#38. Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark.
Ivan Illich
#39. Better lite a candle than complain about the darkness
Ajahn Brahm
#40. 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
#41. read a quote once that said 'when you light a candle, you also cast a shadow
Karen Lynch
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle.
Rumi
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#51. Twas said better to light a candle than curse the dark ...
Robert McCammon
#52. Writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.
Alice Childress
#53. The Heart is like a candle,
longing to be lit!
Rumi
#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. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. I have a candle on the bus that smells like caramel brownie. I love anything that smells like food!
Carrie Underwood
#60. She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.
Adlai E. Stevenson II
#61. 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
#62. Not every thought is a candle! Some thoughts can make the world darker!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#67. 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
#68. What is writing, after all, except fumbling in darkness endeavoring to light a candle?
Peggy Toney Horton
#69. You're like a candle in a dark room, throwing light backwards and forwards.
Christopher Barzak
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. None of it could hold a candle to the shit-yourself-fear evoked by a charging abby.
Blake Crouch
#73. 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
#74. A candle that lights another does not have to work as hard to bring forth light.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Carolyn Weber
#78. You keep telling me to be glad for what we had while we had it. That the brightest flame burns quickest. Which means you saw us as a candle. And I saw us as the sun.
Pleasefindthis
#79. There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle
Michael Faraday
#80. When you wake up the next morning and see a bag filled with stale pieces of bread, a candle, a wooden spoon, and a feather, you may be wondering what you did last night and weather anyone got hurt [Note: This is some strange Jewish custom].
Cantor Matt Axelrod
#81. I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.
Cat Deeley
#82. In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
O. Henry
#83. You made me cut and dye my hair."
Surely he understands that we face greater problems? "I thought it would greatly improve your looks," I snap.
"Shorn hair is a sign of shame. You humiliate me greatly."
"I'll light a candle tonight in honor of your dead tresses.
Rae Carson
#84. As far back as I can remember, whenever you used to look at me, your face would light up as if someone had lit a candle inside you.
Laura Lee Guhrke
#86. Light a candle; share the beauty; share the light. Share the blessings and share the delight.
Debasish Mridha
#87. All I ever wanted, all I ever dreamed of,
Everything I hoped, and all the things I prayed for
Couldn't hold a candle to what I've been given,
I've been given what I need.
Michael McLean
#88. A wise word of a stupid man is just a myth! A rock cannot emit light like a candle!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. 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
#90. We're reaching for death
on the end of a candle
We're trying for something
that's already found us
Jim Morrison
#91. Oh, life, life!" Bastidas complained, sipping his drink. "What is life? A little flame at the tip of a candle, exposed to a strong wind.
Julio Ramon Ribeyro
#92. Sometimes I light incense and a candle. It's so peaceful and quiet. The steadiness of the energy and the reliability of the warmth have a calming effect.
Cindy Williams
#93. She had only a candle's light to see by, but candlelight never did badly by any woman.
John Fowles
#94. a candle loses nothing from lighting another candle
Kerry Day
#95. It is about trying to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness, and loving your life even if it has slipped away
Isabel Gillies
#96. The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.
Chris Cornell
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
