Quotes About Candle

A noise recalled him to Saint-Sulpice; the choir was leaving; the church was about to close. "I should have tried to pray," he thought. "It would have been better than sitting here in the empty church, dreaming in my chair--but pray? I have no desire to pray. I am haunted by Catholicism, intoxicated by its atmosphere of incense and candle wax. I hover in its outskirts, moved to tears by its prayers, touched to the very marrow by its psalms and chants.

Na vida de um homem, seu tempo é apenas um momento... os sentidos, a luz mortiça de uma vela

As one candle is lit from the flame of another, so is faith kindled by faith.

I have lost my faith, but I gained the truth! It is not important at all to lose your candle as long as you find a torch!

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

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

Hasta mis pensamientos parecían balancearse, pequeños, oscilantes, como llama de una vela.

Out, out, brief candle. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full

The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. In the darkness the man with a candle is an easy target.

Deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the devil, and then blowing the smoke into the face of God.

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

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

The teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself

The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light...It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence.

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

The happier ending is Twin Peaks is still out there. Waiting, watchful, alive. Haunted, full of shivers and delights, a candle glimpsed in a log cabin window, while passing through a few and darkening wood. Some dreams survive.

Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it? And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.

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

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.

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.

I remembered my ride past the graveyard with Pauline this morning. I had known. Fear had seized me. Something was wrong. Something was hopelessly and irretrievably wrong. My flesh had crawled. Warning breezes. A candle. A prayer. A hope. An icy whisper. A cold clawed hand on my neck. I hadn't understood what it had meant, but I had known.

By this time it was dark, the candle carried by Robert only making one nucleus of light as he moved about holding it before the pictures one by one. The broad, bare window looked out upon the pale sky, tinged with the last cold flicker of the twilight. The ivy rustled against the glass with the same ominous shiver as that which agitated every leaf in the garden, prophetic of the storm that was to come.