Candle Quotes

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

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

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.

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

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.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

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

Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.

Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there.

I'm the least spiritual person in the world. I can't even abide a smelly candle. I know it's meant to make me relax, and that immediately makes my hackles rise.

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

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

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.

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.

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

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.

The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison, who were tortured, who were kidnapped, who "disappeared". That's what the candle is for.

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

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.

That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in 'Brief Candle.'

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I've never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned.

My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!

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.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

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.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.