Candle Quotes

631 Candle quotes by 469 unique authors

Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like. — Emile Zola
Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily… — Francis Bacon
Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern. — Mario Vargas Llosa
You know what I think? I think that if a young woman doesn't engage in the act of occasionally wishing on a star or a… — Robin Jones Gunn
many people must be ruled to thrive. In their selfishness and greed, they see free people as their oppressors. They wish to have a leader… — Terry Goodkind
Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment,… — Laura Esquivel
Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see… — Madeleine L'Engle
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
We sit there, our eyes locked on one another, for several seconds. I know in my heart we're both thinking the same thing. Jacob leans… — Laurie Faria Stolarz
The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain. A candle snuffed,… — Madeleine L'Engle
For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . . — Tennessee Williams
We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s… — Spider Robinson
There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning,… — Annie Dillard
They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She was only standing,… — Ray Bradbury
Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it? — Charles Dickens
The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night.… — Dorothy Parker
Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They're not impossible. Reality is real. It's totally… — Julie Anne Peters
I have been stabbed, shot, burned, bitten, beaten unconscious too many times to count, and even staked. None of those held a candle to the… — Jeaniene Frost
The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night. — Robert Bly
Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark. — Ivan Illich
It is so hard to learn to put sadness in perspective so hard to understand that it is a feeling that comes in degrees, it… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Our lives are like a candle in the wind. — Carl Sandburg
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. — Anne Frank
But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green… — Alice Sebold
When the Dark comes rising six shall turn it back; Three from the circle, three from the track; Wood, bronze, iron; Water, fire, stone; Five… — Susan Cooper

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