Candle Quotes

631 Candle quotes by 469 unique authors

September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.--from the poem Angel of Remembrance:… — Aberjhani
For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled… — Herman Melville
The weak grey light that serves as harbinger of red and golden dawn faintly lit my window. I fumbled for a candle, found and lit… — Robin McKinley
If Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana were "candles in the wind," and Anna Nicole Smith was a bonfire in a hailstorm, and Lindsay Lohan is… — Cintra Wilson
Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died. — P. C. Cast
maybe we try too hard to be remembered, waking to the glowing yellow disc in ignorance, swearing that today will be the day, today we… — Naomi Shihab Nye
Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar… — Tennessee Williams
But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the… — Robert Farrar Capon
Everything's got a purpose, really - you just have to look for it. Cats are good at keeping old dogs alive. Loss helps you reach… — Joan Bauer
Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world. — Jimmy Buffett
Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. — Anthony Rapp
When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At… — Philip Pullman
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you. — Amy Bloom
First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing. — A.M. Jenkins
Henderson sighed. There was a time, he reflected, when the coming of this night meant something. A dark Europe, groaning in superstitious fear, dedicated this… — Robert Bloch
Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life. — William Shakespeare
Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall" -The Vampire Lestat — Anne Rice
Not crazy in a 'let's paint the kitchen bright red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwich, I am God' sort… — Augusten Burroughs
Lucy swayed in shock. A gust of wind moaned through the conservatory and blew out all but one of her candles. Simon must have done… — Elizabeth Hoyt
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
I can't take not knowing what the next day will bring- the uncertainty is sawing me in two. The room is dark. A flickering candle… — Pittacus Lore
It’s odd, isn’t it? People die every day and the world goes on like nothing happened. But when it’s a person you love, you think… — Kristina McMorris
Had you but seen it, I promise you, your high-minded principles would have melted like candle wax. Never would you have wished such beauty away. — Jennifer Donnelly
What they had between them was still as fragile as flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered,… — Cassandra Clare
She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness. — Adlai E. Stevenson

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