Candle Quotes

The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

...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.

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.

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

God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.

I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.

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

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

It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy.

In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.

Covetousness, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendor of a happy fortune in its own grease.

Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.

In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you.

Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.

When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as you murmur my verses, a wonder in your eyes, 'Ronsard sang of me in the days when I was fair.

When the candles are out all women are fair.

In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other way I have to go to bed by day.

By lighting a candle, you affirm that you are opening a sacred space.

I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul.

The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night.

Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives

A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

Whenever you see something going well - whenever light begins to chase back the darkness that threatens to engulf our world - look closely. There stands a leader who is holding that candle.

Andrea Gibson is a truly American poet, or rather, she represents the America I want to live in. Her work lights a candle to lead us where we need to go.

Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack sat on a candle stick, cause fire is the devil's only friend.

Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

Every little candle is a great knight fighting against the darkness! Every time you feel yourself tiny, remember these brave candles!

He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun

To see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place. This is the same as to see the good and be grateful, one must compare and contrast it with something worse - not better!

A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one

The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.

She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

If I had my life to live over I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

Hope lights a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

In a pitch black room, you can affirm "let their be light" or you can light one candle.

Let us be happy too when we see a happy man, because happiness is a candle light in this dark universe!

Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.

Devotion is like the candle which Michael Angelo used to take in his pasteboard cap, so as not to throw his shadow upon the work in which he was engaged.