Candle Quotes

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. (Edith Wharton)
Absence extinguishes the minor passions and increases the great ones, as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. View quote
William Penn
My candle burns at both endsIt will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -It gives a lovely light. View quote
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.' View quote
Steven Wright
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. View quote
Robert Burton
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. View quote
William Shakespeare
The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you. View quote
Amy Bloom
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark. (Wallace Stevens)
I shall curse you with book and bell and candle. View quote
Thomas Malory
Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit. View quote
Henry Fielding
It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness. View quote
Confucius
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. View quote
Christopher Hitchens
Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like. View quote
Émile Zola
Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle. View quote
James Howell
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle. View quote
Michael Faraday
All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe. (Clark Ashton Smith)
You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles. View quote
George Carlin
One candle is enough. Its gentle light will be more suitable, will be more gracious when the Shades arrive, the Shades of Love. View quote
Constantine P. Cavafy
What they had between them was still as fragile as a flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed. View quote
Cassandra Clare