Candle Quote by Amy Bloom Download Open image “The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.” — Amy Bloom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Candle Comfort Distance Distance Close Far Comfort Great Distance Nostalgia Past Past Candle Quit Far Quitting Time Too far
The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes. — Adele Parks Copy Share Image
“Sometimes no matter how hard you try you just can’t let go of the past. It's a watermark on your soul that will never… — Simon Beecher Copy Share Image
If you can't say goodbye to your past, then you just can't say hello to your future. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
You dwell too much on the past, you forget that you've got to take care of the present. — Karl-Anthony Towns Copy Share Image
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail. — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your beloved children and know that all… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
If you're an American reader, you can love short stories the way other Americans love baseball; this is our game, people! We have more… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
My father certainly believed that one could make a living outside of an office, as he did. And that if I didn't want to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
'Normal' is not clinical, it's not autobiographical, and I don't claim to be objective. It's strictly my perceptions and thoughts about the people that… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I am all for loving relationships in which the couple at the center are a match set in terms of height, weight, color, and… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“The German deli was run by a distant cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm and the Great Neck Jews loved the place; they flocked to Kuch's.… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I met Jay Jonhson. I won him the way poor people occasionally win the lottery: Shameless perseverance and embarrassingly dumb luck, and every time… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and they have been doing so for centuries -… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
The dream of coming back is becoming a reality. A lot of the uncertainty about the future has been cleared up. A lot of… — Paul Tagliabue Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
On Hanukkah, the first dark night, Light yourself a candle bright. I'll you, if you will me invite To dance within that gentle light. — Nick Gordon Copy Share Image
I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh. At the same time, you have people in the hospital who… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I came… — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Two ways to be a light for all, is to be a flaming candle or the mirror that reflects it” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Some will see your flame and want to blow it out...others will approach with a candle...” — Lenita Vangellis Copy Share Image