Candle Quotes

631 Candle quotes by 469 unique authors

I'm Gentleman Death in silk and lace, come to put out the candles. The canker in the heart of the rose. — Anne Rice
It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let… — Henry Van Dyke
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle. — Benjamin Franklin
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and… — George Bernard Shaw
We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us — Jim Morrison
But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine. — William Blake
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… — Jodi Picoult
When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me. — Alice Walker
Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed,… — Thomas de Quincey
Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire. — Unknown Author
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle. — P.G. Wodehouse
A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one — Virginia Woolf
It's so easy to wish for death when nothing's wrong with you! It's so easy to fall in love with death, and I've been all… — Anne Rice
Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light...It seems… — Marilynne Robinson
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it,… — Unknown Author
To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off;… — Carlos Castaneda
We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it.… — Nhat Hanh
I was taught that candles are like house cats - domesticated versions of something wild and dangerous. There's no way to know how much of… — Sloane Crosley
There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his… — Ray Bradbury
Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are… — Francesca Lia Block
Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out. — Malcolm Gladwell
Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely… — Daniel Handler
Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
He gave me heaven and earth, and assumed I'd be satisfied; Actually I was too embarrassed to argue. The spiritual seekers are tired, two or… — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

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