Candle Quotes

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.

As one candle is lit from the flame of another, so is faith kindled by faith.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!

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 the mice eat it.

The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.

God and the imagination are one.

Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies.

The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.

The Heart is like a candle, longing to be lit!

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles.

I have a candle on the bus that smells like caramel brownie. I love anything that smells like food!

If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb.

Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle?

I would love to DJ the royal wedding. Just so I could play Candle in the Wind non-stop.

And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.

Submit to love without thinking, as the sun rose this morning recklessly extinguishing our star-candle minds.

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.

I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life.

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

It isn't useful to curse the darkness; instead light your candle and let your light shine.

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.

The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.

How can you go on stage and shout 'Yeah! Rock'n'roll forever!' and then go to bed at 10 o'clock with a nightcap on, a candle in your hand and a Bible under your arm?

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!

All of us contain a divine, expressive spark, a creative candle intended to light our path and that of our fellows.

In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me.

Don't be fooled by my beauty - the light of my face comes from the candle of my spirit.

I wish I were a candle in the darkness.

Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow.

The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.

...wings—-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame.

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

The daily coverage of the Vietnamese battlefield helped convince the American public that the carnage was not worth the candle.

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.