A Quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay

My candle burns at both ends — © Edna St. Vincent Millay
My candle burns at both ends
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!
If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?
When you're young, you can burn the candle at both ends, and you're fine.
I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.
I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.
I am afraid for my health. I'm definitely burning the candle a little, at both ends, and I have to be careful about that.
The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.
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.
I'm old, and so busy with work, that I like to just stay home and get my sleep now. I try not to burn both ends of the candle.
Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone.
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.
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.
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
My 20s were totally bonkers. I was living out of a suitcase and burning the candle at both ends. But I tell you - I am totally over it.
Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.
Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your possessiveness, it burns your jealousy - it burns all that is wrong and negative, and it enhances all that is beautiful, graceful, divine.
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