Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Candle. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Candle Quotes And Sayings by 89 Authors including J.d. Salinger,James Altucher,Christopher Hitchens,L.m. Montgomery,Matshona Dhliwayo for you to enjoy and share.
I like to chew candles. -- J.d. Salinger
One candle can light a thousand other candles and still remain lit itself. Be that candle. -- James Altucher
I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light. -- Christopher Hitchens
Marilla lighted a candle and -- L.m. Montgomery
Don't blow out someone's candle or you'll both end up in the dark. -- Matshona Dhliwayo
The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine. -- John Steinbeck
Consumed by the agony of remembrance The remembrance of night's festive company The one remaining candle flickers and dies. -- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
If you want to own the Sun, you must first understand candle. -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
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. -- Henry Van Dyke
No jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit hung from the blade of grass at your ear. No chandelier see you better lit than here. -- Carol Ann Duffy
There isn't enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle. -- Gautama Buddha
When the candle flame is very weak, don't create any wind! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
CANDLE WISDOM
If you knew
what you will know
when your candle
has burnt low,
it would greatly
ease your plight
while your candle
still burns bright. -- Piet Hein
The glass candle is meant to represent truth and learning, rare and beautiful and fragile things. It is made in the shape of a candle to remind us that a maester must cast light wherever he serve, and it is a sharp to remind us that knowledge can be dangerous. -- George R R Martin
A flame in the dark -- Richelle Mead
A need for many candles may arise in every nation's history to light up the darkness in the country. Most of the time, the youth is the very candles themselves! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. -- Budha
I huddle in the dark with a mass of burnt matches strewn at my feet. And yet, for all of those matches I've not been able to light a single candle. And huddled in such deep darkness, I've somehow yet to realize that Christmas made both matches and candles forever obsolete. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
That was the way with Moldenke, a brightly burning candle with a shortened wick, destined to burn low and give off gas. -- David Ohle
A candle cannot boast standing next to the sun. -- Matshona Dhliwayo
Not every thought is a candle! Some thoughts can make the world darker! -- Mehmet Murat Ildan
My life is now nothing more than a flickering candle. The wax is melting and the flame is a small, quivering spark. Soon it'll simply vanish, and I'll finally collapse into the black hole of eternal peace. -- Margaret Mcheyzer
a candle loses nothing from lighting another candle -- Kerry Day
One candle is like a smile. One little light can start a whole fire. Smile at someone today. -- Gail Thackray
A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Our lives are like a candle in the wind. -- Carl Sandburg
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle. -- Robert Alden
I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates. -- Tyler Joseph
Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. -- Anne Frank
Every night,' said Mr. Peggotty, 'as reg'lar as the night comes, the candle must be stood in its old pane of glass, that if ever she should see it, it may seem to say, Come back, my child, come back! -- Charles Dickens
To light a candle is to cast a shadow -- Kate Forsyth
In the cathedral of my heart a candle will always be lit for you. -- Hardy Kruger
A single candle can light a thousand more without diminishing itself. -- Hillel The Elder
Today you have added another candle of knowledge and wisdom to your life. May it give you the power to enlighten the whole world. On your birthday, I wish you joy and happiness. -- Debasish Mridha
She had only a candle's light to see by, but candlelight never did badly by any woman. -- John Fowles
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
To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
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 a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep. -- Richard Brautigan
Forward, I pray, since we have come so far,
And be it moon, or sun, or what you please.
And if you please to call it a rush candle,
Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me. -- William Shakespeare
Flowers open every night
across the sky, a breathing peace,
and sudden flame catching. -- Rumi
A candle that lights another does not have to work as hard to bring forth light. -- Matshona Dhliwayo
altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, -- Lewis Carroll
Two ways to be a light for all, is to be a flaming candle or the mirror that reflects it -- Edith Wharton
Sixteen candles make a lovely light But not as bright as your eyes tonight. -- Luther Dixon
Life," he said softly, "is more than flesh. Your body is a candle, your soul the flame. The longer I burn the candle..." He did not finish.
"A candle unused is nothing but wax and wick," I said."I would rather light the flame, knowing it will go out than sit forever in darkness. -- S. Jae-Jones
If you never saw the stars, candles were enough. -- Maggie Stiefvater
Love is more than a candle. Love can ignite the stars. -- Matthew Woodring Stover
If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower
I will pitch my tent in your shadow.
Only your presence revives my withered heart.
You are the candle that lights the whole world
and I am an empty vessel for your light. -- Rumi
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 ... -- Tennessee Williams
I love having candles, especially when you get downtime. I could just pass out seeing the flame flicker with the lights off. -- Kellan Lutz
Never blow out someone else's candle to try and make your one shine brighter -- Steven Aitchison
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1St Baron Lytton
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. -- Francis Of Assisi
Every time you cry, your tears put out my candle. -- Jackie Shemwell
I love candlelit dinners. -- Matthew Morrison
If I burn the candles, it means not only giving you light. It means to show you the fire which I have inside. -- Gaurav Grv Sharma
The candle glimmers but an hour. The night
Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know
The tragedy of human love and need?
Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face! -- George Sterling
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Never underestimate the power of a scented candle! declared a sign beneath a display of coloured candles.
Yes, I thought. Buy two and invade Russia! -- Alice Pung
Imagine a pitch-black room with a single candle lit in the center," he said, his voice gone low. "The room is the world. You are the candle. -- Kresley Cole
I wish I were a candle in the darkness. -- Mahmoud Darwish
It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace... -- John Green
Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it? -- Charles Dickens
The candle-end had long been burning out in the bent candlestick, casting a dim light in this destitute room upon the murderer and the harlot strangely come together over the reading of the eternal book. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If one candle is brought into an absolutely dark room, the darkness disappears, and there is light. But if ten or a hundred or a thousand candles are added, the room will become brighter and brighter. Yet the decisive change was brought about by the first candle which penetrated the darkness.57 -- Erich Fromm
There are many ways in which life's little candle can be snuffed out. A cold wind pursues us all. -- Yann Martel
anglepoise lamp. -- Garth Risk Hallberg
Oh. My. Candlesticks. -- Alysha Speer
Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire. -- Rumi
May I ask you something?" Dr Greysteel nodded."Are you not afraid that it will go out?"
"What will go out?" asked Dr Greysteel.
"The candle," Strange gestured to Dr Greysteel's forehead. "The candle inside your head. -- Susanna Clarke
I know that I have life only insofar as I have love. I have no love except it come from Thee. Help me, please, to carry this candle against the wind. -- Wendell Berry
Knives and candlelight," he said, "how romantic. -- Nenia Campbell
Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark. -- Ivan Illich
I understood in a moment of stillness,' Litima read. 'Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. -- Brandon Sanderson
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you? -- Rumi
It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun -- Algernon Sidney
Where others saw gloom, I saw light or lit a candle. -- G.r. Gopinath
They lit candles on the table, all while the apple tree shook and blossoms continued to fall. When the petals hit the flames of the candles, they hissed and popped into ash, leaving behind a scent that was so beautiful and sweet that it smelled like both yesterday and tomorrow. -- Sarah Addison Allen
We are candles, I remember thinking, and the wind is rising. -- Lynn Schooler
I found the candles - atrocious air freshening ones that smelled like fake pine. -- Richelle Mead
A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they're so eager to get to the light on the other side. -- Michael Cunningham
Remember that in a hall of perfect darkness, totally dark, if you light one small candle, its light will be seen from afar; its precious light will be seen by everyone. -- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers ... Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island. -- William Golding
Does it not seem to you at times, when
Twilight walks through the house , that
Right here alongside us is another element,
In which we live quite differently?
("A Candle Is Brought In") -- Innokenty Annensky
I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes. -- Leonard Cohen
Those who make candles will find it a great improvement to steep the wicks in lime-water and saltpetre, and dry them. The flame is clearer, and the tallow will not 'run. -- Lydia Maria Francis Child
Don't curse the darkness, light a candle. -- Confucius
She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness. -- Adlai E. Stevenson Ii
The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule. -- Mary Higgins Clark
Quietly, he walked towards it with the matchbox in one hand, the candle in the other. -- Markus Zusak
The candle inside will eventually burn out; the question is: did it light the path for those following us? -- Orrin Woodward
sprinkled salt in a line ringing Kelsie's bed first, then grabbed candles from a box in the closet. They weren't the kind I had in my trailer. They were the kind with edible wax that smelled like molten candy. -- Vivian Arend
Everybody is a candle, true. But not everybody is lit. -- Harbhajan Singh
Better lite a candle than complain about the darkness -- Ajahn Brahm
Nobody ever thinks about the flame. It always ends up alone, and surrounded by a bunch of dead moths. -- Charity Parkerson
The matches also came into focus: a cheap, bright label, in French. I picked up the box, slid it open, my nose stung by the smell of sulphur. Four matches. I took one, scraped it into life, held it to the oil lamp. A spot of warmth entered the room. -- Laurie R. King
You gonna curse the darkness or light a candle? -- Terry Hayes
As candle lights candle, [the spouses's] desire for each other kindles a desire for the Love of which their love is but a reflection. -- J. Budziszewski
The candle-end was flickering out in the battered candlestick, dimly lighting up in the poverty stricken room the murderer and the harlot who had so strangely been reading together the eternal book. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
