Top 100 The Candle Quotes
#1. So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.
Walt Whitman
#2. 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
#4. Whole worlds' darkness is not enough to dark the blaze of a candle..
Sarvesh Jain
#5. Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.
Roger Waters
#6. He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun
Rumi
#7. 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
#8. The journey to the light starts with a candle. Once it's lit, darkness has gone forever.
Adriano Bulla
#9. If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine.
Steven Tyler
#10. Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light Itself ...
Philip Jose Farmer
#11. There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing
light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.
Jodi Picoult
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.
Anthony Trollope
#15. Life after 35 should be lit by the flames of passion. Extinguish the fire that burns the candle of your life at both ends.
Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Don't be fooled by my beauty -
the light of my face
comes from the candle of my spirit.
Rumi
#20. A scholar is a candle which the love and desire of all men will light.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#21. Maybe Michael left a candle burning. Maybe be forgot to turn off his iron, or the oven. Maybe he left his dishwasher running and it was flooding the place, or a thirsty plant desperately needed water.
Maybe I was way out of line.
Myra McEntire
#22. I am not yours, nor lost in you, not lost, although I long to be. Lost as a candle lit at noon, lost as a snowflake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still a spirit beautiful and bright, yet I am I, who long to be lost as a light is lost in light.
Sara Teasdale
#23. But the lovely Madonna, mother of his precious Jesus, couldn't hold a candle to the madonna before him. They
Amy Harmon
#24. Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
Charles Dickens
#25. 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
#26. Speak to me of the dark gifts. I use them. I'm gentleman death in silk and lace, come to put out the candle.
Anne Rice
#27. When all seems dark and there is no light,
Hope is the candle that always burns bright.
Divya Singh
#28. Submit to love without thinking,
as the sun rose this morning
recklessly extinguishing
our star-candle minds.
Rumi
#29. For mankind, science is the only real candle in this dark universe; all other candles are fake! Science is our only real hope; all other hopes are fake! Remember this!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. I huddle in the dark with a mass of burnt matches strewn at my feet. And yet, for all of those matches I've not been able to light a single candle. And huddled in such deep darkness, I've somehow yet to realize that Christmas made both matches and candles forever obsolete.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#31. ANGEL: I I I I
Am the Bird of America, the Bald Eagle,
Continental Principality,
LUMEN PHOSPHOR FLUOR CANDLE!
Tony Kushner
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.
Michael Leunig
#35. 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
#36. All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
Fred Rogers
#37. Love is who you are. Your true self is pure love, infinite awareness, and unbounded joy ... As you realize this, you will feel a small light in your heart. At first it will be the size of a spark, then a candle flame, then a raging bonfire.
Deepak Chopra
#38. My body is but wax and wick for flame. When the candle burns out, the light shines elsewhere.
Normandi Ellis
#39. 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
#40. Hope is a flicker, a candle flame kept burning by the simple act of breathing.
Joan Clark
#42. She went to the house and lit a candle. The candle cried: 'I am being killed.' The flame: 'I am killing you.' The maid answered: 'It is true, true. For I see your white blood.' Meanwhile,
Douglas Botting
#43. Education is not only filling the mind with knowledge, but it is igniting the candle that enlightens the mind.
Debasish Mridha
#44. I know now for a fact that improv can't hold a candle to doing standup. It's not the same buzz, it just isn't. It feels infantile to me at times. When you see guys who do it really well, great. But improv needs a rewrite.
Ron James
#45. 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
#46. You always said I could see the present," said Candle, when she could speak. "But I can see nothing about her - my own daughter." Liir smoothed his hand over her silky flank. "Maybe that's not so surprising. Maybe all parents are blindest to their own offspring.
Gregory Maguire
#47. 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
#48. And all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, and blinking at the candle; why things around her had taken the shape they wore in preference to every other possible shape.
Thomas Hardy
#49. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower
I will pitch my tent in your shadow.
Only your presence revives my withered heart.
You are the candle that lights the whole world
and I am an empty vessel for your light.
Rumi
#50. She was like a candle that just went out. All the circles that made her up suddenly got lopsided and warped.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#51. One begins to realize that one is getting old when the birthday candles weigh more than the cake.
Bette Davis
#52. It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
George Eliot
#53. I hear he liked flowers pretty well."
"Yes," said Annie, "he said they were the friends who always came back and never disappointed him."
"Out, Brief Candle
Kurt Vonnegut
#54. Better to have flamed in the darkness, to have inspired others, to have lived, than to have sat in the darkness, cursing the people who borrowed, but did not return, your candle.
Neil Gaiman
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. As my father talked, tears dripped down the side of his face like candle wax. The sight shocked me; until that moment, I had assumed men were as incapable of crying as they were of having babies.
Wally Lamb
#59. The Candle Holder
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
Your light I wish to see.
I am the candle holder,
reveal yourself to me.
-Reed Abbitt Moore-
Reed Abbitt Moore
#60. Better lite a candle than complain about the darkness
Ajahn Brahm
#61. He tried to scream, but nothing would come out. All he wanted to be was home, safe with his ma and daddy. Hot tears streaked down his grime-covered cheeks.
The candle in his hand sputtered out, and the darkness took him into its cold and empty embrace.
Hunter Shea
#62. She wanted to be his candle, to light the darkness in his soul, to burn in the window and show him the way home. She wanted to be his rain, a sweet storm of the senses. She wanted to be his warmth, a solace for his soul.
Alison Kent
#63. I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."
Madeleine L'Engle
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. Kindle the candle of intellect in your heart and hasten with it to the world of brightness.
Nasir-i Khusraw
#67. 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
#68. The candle is not lit
To give light, but to testify to the night.
Robert Bly
#69. Twas said better to light a candle than curse the dark ...
Robert McCammon
#70. The Heart is like a candle,
longing to be lit!
Rumi
#71. He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. "I miss you," Isobel says as he leaves, but the sentiment is crushed by the clatter of the beaded curtain falling closed behind him.
Erin Morgenstern
#72. Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.
Kristin Cast
#73. Don't blow out someone's candle or you'll both end up in the dark.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#74. 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
#75. Thinking that we have to always burn our candle at both ends in order to benefit others is perhaps the greatest idiot compassion of all.
Ethan Nichtern
#77. 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
#78. It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.
Richard Baxter
#79. Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
Marshall McLuhan
#80. When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur my verses, a wonder in your eyes, 'Ronsard sang of me in the days when I was fair.
Pierre De Ronsard
#81. Wind comes in, your candle tips over and flares up, and a loose tent-flap catches fire, and through the widening black-edged gap you can see the eyes of the howlers, red and shining in the light from your burning paper shelter, but you keep on writing anyway because what else can you do?
Margaret Atwood
#82. Every night,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'as reg'lar as the night comes, the candle must be stood in its old pane of glass, that if ever she should see it, it may seem to say, Come back, my child, come back!
Charles Dickens
#83. Be of good comfort, Mr. Ridley, and play the man! We shall this day light such a candle by God's grace, in England, as I trust never shall be put out.
Hugh Latimer
#84. For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#85. I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment,
His burning candle consumed me - the moth;
His wine overwhelmed my goblet,
The master of Rum transmuted my earth to gold
And set my ashes aflame.
Muhammad Iqbal
#86. 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
#87. Don't wait for anyone to push you up, push yourself up; don't wait for anyone to pull you up, pull yourself up! Your best hero, your greatest savior is yourself! The candle of your darkness is hidden within you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#88. I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.
Jeffrey Combs
#89. The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.
Ken Auletta
#90. My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?
Wernher Von Braun
#91. How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun!
Edward Young
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
Anne Frank
#95. To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
Jose Bergamin
#96. 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
#97. Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone.
John Selden
#98. 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
#99. I love the way you lit candles, with the insistence that I never look, just so I can open my eyes and find the light in the darkness.
R. YS Perez
#100. So much of love is curiousity, a search inside the other for some little piece of self; emerging from the bear cave of them with your birthday candle and filament of ore: the same as that I'm made of!
Anna Funder
