Candle Quotes

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
― Anne Frank

“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.”
― George R.R. Martin

“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. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Each time a person passes by you and you say 'hello', imagine that person turning into a candle. The more positivity, love and light you reflect, the more light is mirrored your way. Sharing beautiful hellos is the quickest way to earn spiritual brownie points. You should start seeing hellos as small declarations of faith. Every time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“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, By Nightfall

“Every moment age is creeping up stealthily,
but life, life is melting down
like a candle that is flickering around.”
― Suman Pokhrel, मलाई जिन्दगी नै दुख्दछ [Malai Zindagi Nai Dukhdachha]

“It incinerates unceasingly, trying
smiling in illusion of being alive;
it keeps broiling continuously
and restlessly sparkles around
like a blaze of lighting flame,
life is melting down
like a candle that is flickering around.”
― Suman Pokhrel, मलाई जिन्दगी नै दुख्दछ [Malai Zindagi Nai Dukhdachha]

“If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you — envy, jealousy, and resentment may put out your flame before it grows.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“I am in no mood to write
candle or radio,
nor am I willing to write table,
pen and paper;
I want to write but a poem.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Live as intensely as possible, burn your candle of life from both ends.”
― Osho, And The Flowers Showered Discourses On Zen

“A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard.
And the candle by which she had read the book that was filled with fears, with deceptions, with anguish, and with evil, flared up with greater brightness than she had ever known, revealing to her all that before was in darkness, then flickered, grew faint, and went out
forever.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“This signior is sound, safe, ready, and dumb
As ever was candle, carrot, or thumb;
Then away with these nasty devices, and show
How you rate the just merits of Signior Dildo.”
― John Wilmot, The Complete Poems

“Sometimes neither a friend nor a psychologist can enter the depths of your soul, but only the flames of a candle or a fireplace.”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“I think perhaps I will always hold a candle for you – even until it burns my hand. And when the light has long since gone, I will be there in the darkness holding what remains, quite simply because I cannot let go.”
― Atul Purohit

“ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax..
you cannot support yourself standing.. you cannot sit up straight.
By the end, if you are still alive.. your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk.. like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

“Snow is often slow to melt. That’s why I lit a candle.”
― Jarod Kintz, Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

“I felt the revenant tense and knew before she spoke that it was Mother Dolours. “I fear that an age of saints and miracles isn’t something to celebrate, Sister Marie. The Lady sends us such gifts only in times of darkness. Do you recall the writings of Saint Liliane?"
The sister was silent a moment. Then she murmured, “And so the silent bell wakens to herald the Dead; and the last candle is lit against the coming night...”
I stained to hear more, but their voices had dwindled as the passed outside the hall, leaving a cold lump in my stomach and the lingering image of a single, steady candle flame slowly burning itself down, the only remaining light to hold off the dark.”
― Margaret Rogerson, Vespertine

“Let's hold whatever light we can--
a candle, a flashlight,
an app on our way-too-smart-phones--
whatever may be at hand
to light our way--
to light each other's way--
so we maybe may be
able to
find a way
together.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Distantly, like a candle in a window, she felt Cassian's hand tighten on hers. That was the way back. Nothing could trap her, hold her, if she had that way home.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“You're the seer,
you’re the scenery,
you're the candle and the light, too.
You exist without existence:
You’re the spirit,
the all-encompassing consciousness.”
― Debasish Mridha

“And so the silent bell wakens to herald the Dead; and the last candle is lit against the coming night...”
― Margaret Rogerson, Vespertine

“Be a candle in the dark,’ they say. I don’t want to be a candle. I want to be a bonfire.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If you choose to be a light in this darkening world you must understand that far more people will choose to snuff you out because of what you reveal, than fan your flame in order to share in what you have to give.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Every time I write, I liken it to putting yet another candle in the window of a darkening world. And I am heartened as I remember that the expanse of the light will always be dictated by the intensity of the light and never by the depth of the darkness. And so, each day I seek to light yet another candle, and to do so with an illuminating brilliance so intense that the ever-growing collection of them will someday leave the darkness no place where light is not.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The darkness is not afraid of the candle because it knows that the candle has a continuity problem!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“There is no such thing as absolute superiority in this universe! At night, a tiny candle wonderfully illuminates a place where the sun cannot illuminate! There will be moments and situations when even the powers considered to be the most superior will be helpless and ineffective against a weak power!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A candle that never goes out reaches its highest value only in darkness that never ends!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you want to make a mysterious journey, you don't have to go to a twilight forest or walk mysterious paths under the moonlight! You sit at home, turn off your lamp and light a candle, and suddenly the mystery begins to take hold in your mind!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Hope is a strange thing. It flickers like a candle flame, wavering when you least expect it and yet refusing to die completely.”
― Kirby Larson (Author)