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Quotes About Candles

The storm had caused the power to go out; the streets were buried in a liquid darkness speckled here and there with the light cast by oil lamps or candles from balconies and doors.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I have candles, pictures and flowers on my nightstand... and of course a lamp!
~ Khloe Kardashian
I love 'O Holy Night.' On Christmas Eve, there's a service at the church where I grew up, and at midnight, we would always sing, 'O Holy Night' with candles.
~ Rachel Boston
The village was shutting its eyes. Candles and lamps were being put out everywhere: she could inwardly behold the extinguisher and the extended hand.
~ Thomas Hardy
Hastily flinging her cloak around her she opened the door and followed, putting out the candles as if she were never coming back. The rain was over and the night was now clear.
~ Thomas Hardy
Bridge; candles were being lit in the four-storey houses
~ C.J. Sansom
Ella se miro en los mil pedazos rotos del espejo. Su piel, iluminada por las velas, tenfa el color irreal de las figuras de cera. Miguel comenzo a acariciarla y ella vio transformarse su rostro en el caleidoscopio del espejo y acepto al fin que era la mas bella de todo el universe porque pudo verse con los ojos que la miraba Miguel.
~ Isabel Allende
In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.
~ Flume
I am not forsaken! I'm no longer alone in the darkness! Before my eyes I see a thousand little devils lighting black candles along the path which leads toward the edge...the blindingly beautiful edge.
~ Susan Kay
Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.
~ Susan Patron
Todos los domingos la gente venía y aspiraba aquel olor a meado y nadie decía nada. Quería hablarle al cura acerca de ello, pero no podía. Quizás fueran los cirios.
~ Charles Bukowski
your sure body lit candles for men on dark nights, and now your night is darker than the candle's reach and we will forget you
~ Charles Bukowski
In a bar mitzvah, you do the candle-lighting ceremony with the cake. Every birthday, the cake is the big moment.
~ Ron Ben-Israel
Twenty candles on a cake. Twenty Camels in a pack. Twenty months in the federal pen. Twenty shots of tequila down a young girl's gullet. Twenty centuries since Our Lord's last pratfall, and after all that time we still don't know where passion goes when it goes.
~ Tom Robbins
Must look into the botanical background of substance known as hashish, I jotted in my journal, writing by the light of candles that grew incessantly jewel-like even as protean wafts of incense approached my snout like platters of ripe fruits borne on the back of Nubian pages.
~ Tom Robbins
Christmas brings enormous electric bills. Candles are used for Hanukkah. Not only are we spared enormous electric bills, but we get to feel good about not contributing to the energy crisis.
~ KOACH Humor
pizza-scented candles.
~ Carol J. Perry
The world the Citadel is building has no place in it for sorcery or prophecy or glass candles, much less for dragons.
~ George R.R. Martin
That is a beautiful tuxedo," Phury announced as he and Z pushed the door wide. "I have one just like it ." "Fritz has the candles lit," Rehv said from behind the twins. "Hey, nice tux. I haveone just like it." "Me, too," Phury agreed. "The fit is fantastic, isn't it." "The shoulders, right? Tom Ford is the best—
~ J.R. Ward
Beth» bisbigliò. «Torna da me.» Ripeté l'operazione cercando di farle bere il suo sangue. «Non morire, maledizione!» Le candele guizzarono nella stanza. «Io ti amo, accidenti a te! Accidentaccio a te, non arrenderti!»
~ J.R. Ward
At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince of the Dharma who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.
~ Jack Kerouac
None of our bars smell like a bar at all - that's our number one rule - and we use certain scented candles and certain types of incense in order to give our bars a specific feel and ambiance.
~ Rande Gerber
The thing I regret most about my life are those inane photos of me with icons. They used to come down here and dress me up, and I just tolerated it. It's my fault. But I shouldn't have done it. They literally brought down costumes, candles, and icons! It was unbelievable stupidity.
~ John Tavener
Jacki Smith is a masterful artist of magickal candles. I've enjoyed her blend of strong magickal intentions and great smelling scents in her products. To have her wisdom in a book is a treasure!
~ Christopher Penczak