Top 551 Candle Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on December 11, 2024.
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.
Submit to love without thinking,
as the sun rose this morning
recklessly extinguishing
our star-candle minds.
The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.
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.
I'm very romantic when I masturbate. Sometimes I light a candle...then I try and shoot it out. It's like a carnival.
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.
My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
One of my favourite scents in the world is the 'Brown' candle from Hotel Costes in Paris. It smells like naughty nights in corners of clubs.
[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent.
Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.
If I had my life to live over I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.
Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road.
Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.
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!
The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.
If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as, 'Candle-making industry threatened'.
The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.
... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.
Electricity is a wonderful thing. Do you realise that if we didn't have electricity, we'd be watching television by candle light?
Sometimes I light incense and a candle. It's so peaceful and quiet. The steadiness of the energy and the reliability of the warmth have a calming effect.
Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.
The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.
I couldn't hold a candle to how adventurous Steve was. He found life intoxicating, and he was just in awe of every living creature.
But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.
I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.
I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle."
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.
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.
To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.
Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.
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.
All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...
Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself.
Some men give as little light in the world as a farthing tallow candle, and when they expire, leave as bad an odor behind them.
Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.
After our first week of filming 'Deadpool 2,' Blake Lively got me a candle. It smells really good, and it said, 'To Firefist' on it.
Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
Before bed, I read a book or flip on the radio - I'm not picky, I'll just turn it on and see what comes up. I burn a yummy lavender- scented candle.
The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.
I would love to DJ the royal wedding. Just so I could play Candle in the Wind non-stop.
'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.
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
My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.
When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.
The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.
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.
Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.
Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out
I can't give up that quick
My life is a candle and a wick
You can put it out, but you can't break it down
In the end we are waiting to be lit
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.
writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.
Before a big event, I usually go to church and light a candle for St. Sebastian, who is the patron saint of athletes.
Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives
That feeling when you're so cold you'd give anything to be warm - I've had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
