Candle Quotes

631 Candle quotes by 469 unique authors

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… — Sara Teasdale
Glen had a disability more disfiguring than a burn and more terrifying than cancer. Glen had been born on the day after Christmas. "My parents… — Augusten Burroughs
There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and… — Charles Lamb
But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before she knew it… — Aimee Bender
It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human… — E. M. Forster
She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is… — Michael Ondaatje
The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the… — Margaret Atwood
Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself. — Bruce Lee
He said,'Trust yourself, mon ami. You are not your friend with his so-sad tale. And Anita is not human. Through us she is more than… — Laurell K. Hamilton
I was the only kid at Camp Don Bosco who would admit he was an alter boy back home, so I served two masses a… — Rob Sheffield
She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle.… — Lewis Carroll
January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well… — Isabel Allende
So," he said, "we ourselves will be the candle flames." He put his hands on his chest. "Feel your hearts, how warm they are. — Jerry Spinelli
You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies… — Patrick Rothfuss
I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit… — Richard Brautigan
I'd sit around dreaming that the boys I saw at shows or at work - the boys with silver earrings and big boots - would… — Francesca Lia Block
Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle. — Ray Bradbury
Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always… — Francesca Lia Block
Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched… — Neal Shusterman
Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun… — Milan Kundera
If you have a candle, the light won't glow any dimmer if I light yours off of mine. — Steven Tyler
In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often… — Christopher Hitchens
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.… — David Nicholls
Days to come stand in front of us like a row of lighted candles— golden, warm, and vivid candles. Days gone by fall behind us,… — Constantine Peter Cavafy

Who Wrote These Candle Quotes

469 authors contributed a total of 631 Candle Quotes, led by these top contributors: