Candle Quotes

“...any schmoozer can light a candle.”

— Che Elias

“I light my candle from their torches.”

— Robert Burton

Don't curse the darkness; light a candle

— Anonymous

“It looked like a Roman candle to me.”

— Mike Wells

Commonsense is the wick of the candle.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

My candle burns at both ends

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

Man's best candle is his understanding.

— James Howell

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun

— Rumi

The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.

— Benjamin Franklin

A small candle can gives us light at night even the big sun can't ...

— Melchor Lim

I'm a really cheesy romantic I like to light candles and listen to romantic music

— Greyson Chance

The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles.

— Rumi

The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.

— Robert Bly

“He came bearing not a sword but a candle.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I remember the day I started school; my mother's tears as I skipped away; birthdays with candles on the cake, too soon…

— Francis Norris, 1st Earl of Berkshire

Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her…

— Tennessee Williams

Even with billions of candles, you cannot create a Sun; with billions of lies, a single Truth!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“A candle is not lighted for itself; neither is a man. The light that serves self only, is no true light; its…

— George MacDonald

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

— Wallace Stevens

Millions of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be curtailed..Happiness never diminutions…

— Ola

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.

— Jimmy Buffett

If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb.

— Nathan Fielder

In the morning I stand up, scratch a little bit, then I light a candle and I meditate. Every morning. I've been…

— Russell Simmons

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most…

— Alastair Campbell

Daddy pays for the water, daddy pays for the gas, daddy pays for the electricity, and if daddy didn't pay for the…

— Chris Rock

The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood…

— Carson McCullers

“And the candle by the light of which she had been reading that book filled with anxieties, deceptions, grief and evil, flared…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Other before me have gone much father into holy mysteries than I have done, but if my fire is not large, it…

— A.W. Tozer

He turns and walks away, moving so quickly that the candle flames shiver with the motion of the air. “I miss you,”…

— Erin Morgenstern

I like to see the world from different levels. Even when I'm making a candle or designing a piece, I like to…

— Twinkle Khanna

Our senses are woefully limited. Our brains are but tiny candles flickering in an infinity of darkness. Our only wisdom is to…

— Barry Hughart

Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night.…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A candle is a living, flickering light. It can easily be blown out. As we watch a candle burn we see the…

— Gunilla Brodde Norris

He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a…

— Cyril of Alexandria

Many years have passed since that night. The wall of the staircase up which I had watched the light of his candle…

— Marcel Proust

We're not really afraid to die. We're only afraid of being forgotten. We know that we'll be forgotten, and the idea is…

— Karin Fossum

“Nick and the Candlestick I am a miner. The light burns blue. Waxy stalactites Drip and thicken, tears The earthen womb Exudes…

— Sylvia Plath

The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse…

— Mark Twain