Browsing Topic Best Candle Quotes

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Don’t curse the darkness, light a candle.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

Our lives are like a candle in the wind.

What a glorious night. Every face I see is a memory. It may not be a perfectly perfect memory. Sometimes we had our ups and downs. But we’re all together and you’re mine for a night. And I’m going to break precedent and tell you my one-candle wish…that you would have a life as lucky as mine, where you can wake up one morning and say, ‘I don’t want anything more’. Sixty-five years. Don’t they go by in a blink?

Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.

I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. In the darkness the man with a candle is an easy target.

I’m also interested in pets with alopecia. And design. I’m surprised I haven’t gone through with a homeware brand. The bedding, the comforters, the candles, the this and that. I would like to design everything.

It’s time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake.

If I get married one day, or meet the girl I like, I’ll prepare 100m to 150m of candles, or maybe red carpet

The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out.

The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it’s a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.

I was the rector’s son, born to the anglican order,
Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor;
The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept
With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.

I wrapped my arms around me as tightly as I could, and stared up at the stars. Had I not been so cold and wanting to escape so badly, I could have stared at them forever: They were amazingly beautiful, so dense and bright. My eyes could get lost up there if I left them looking long enough. […] They swallowed me up. They were like a hundred thousand tiny candles, sending out hope.

Someone gave me Roman Candle from Cavity Search when it came out. I was just starting to do A&R in the record business, and I remember being in my Volvo 240 in Silverlake, which is every bit the cliche it sounds like, sitting in front of my house playing the songs over and over again. It was the punkest record I had heard in so long.

Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.

Night calls to the sandhills and gathers them under her. She pushes away cities because their sharp lights hurt her soft breast. Even candles make a sore place when they stick in the night.

This church was open and seemingly unattended, and it was a throwback in another way as well. The candles in the little side altars were real ones, actual wax candles that burned with an open flame. Lots of churches have switched over to electrified altars. You drop your quarter in the slot and a flame-shaped bulb goes on and stays on for your quarter’s worth of time. It’s like a parking meter, and if you stay too long they tow away your soul.

Sixteen candles make a lovely light But not as bright as your eyes tonight.

When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.

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!

It has been wisely said that you can take a child of God, put him in a dungeon with a Bible and a candle and lock him away, and he will know more about what’s going on in today’s world with the Word of God than all the pundits in Washington.

Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.

The world is in balance . To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

First lesson learned: Knowing doesn’t hold a candle to doing.

To see a candle’s light one must take it into a dark place.

Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.

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