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Quotes About Candle

It's one of those weird truths you learn early on as police that quite a high percentage of the public have all the survival instinct of a moth in a candle factory. They run the wrong way, they refuse to move, some will run toward the danger, and others will instantly whip out their phones and take footage.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
In Gower Street they were sweeping up glass, and a building smoked into the new day like a candle which some late reveler had forgotten to snuff.
~ Graham Greene
Above the snap and pop of the fire, the wind howled, prowling around the inn, snooping at the windows and whining at the door. The candle flames quivered in the draft, melting the wax into strange shapes.
~ Mary Downing Hahn
Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I have a candle on the bus that smells like caramel brownie. I love anything that smells like food!
~ Carrie Underwood
His round cheeks are of a red that seems to glow from within, as if he had a lit candle in his mouth like a paper lantern at a summer fete.
~ Joseph Roth
A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away.
~ Eva Logue
The sun is the biggest metaphor. The sun is the first candle. She can get there by its light.
~ Gregory Maguire
Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.
~ Sri Aurobindo
I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.
~ Sir Thomas Malory
At the heart of its strength is a weakness: a lone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.
~ Matthew Woodring Stover
I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul.
~ Rumi
Every quarter of a century an angel has touched one candle. Every prayer that was offered over the candle was answered. The Christmas Candle has become legendary.
~ Max Lucado
Trust God's hold on you more than your hold on God. His faithfulness does not depend on yours. His performance is not predicated on yours. His love is not contingent on your own. Your candle may flicker, but it will not expire.
~ Max Lucado
Drear ritual turned its wheel. The ferment of the heart, within these walls, was mocked by every length of sleeping shadow. The passions, no greater than candle flames, flickered in Time's yawn, for Gormenghast, huge and adumbrate, out-crumbles all.
~ Mervyn Peake
Then slowly, as his erratic shape approached the next guttering aura he would begin by degrees to become a silhouette, until immediately before the candle he would for a moment appear like an inky scarecrow, a mantis of pitch-black cardboard worked with strings.
~ Mervyn Peake
May I ask you something? Dr Greysteel nodded.Are you not afraid that it will go out? What will go out? asked Dr Greysteel. The candle, Strange gestured to Dr Greysteel's forehead. The candle inside your head.
~ Susanna Clarke
Well, Hodge, wasn't the brightest candle on the birthday cake.
~ Josh Lanyon
Candle flame burning bright, With your flame on this night, Trap the evil, seal it well, in this stone, make it remain. Never to be free again.
~ Joyce Lavene
Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.
~ Fannie Flagg
Fear made everyone look very alive in a strange and fragile way, like the last flare of a candle before it dies.
~ Frances Hardinge
The best match in the world will not light a candle unless the wick be first suitably prepared.
~ blackwood algernon ii
It was long ago in the days when men sighed when they fell in love; when people danced by candle and lamp, and did dance, too, instead of solemnly gliding about; in that mellow time so long ago, when the young were romantic and summer was roses and wine, old Carewe brought his lovely daughter home from the convent to wreck the hearts of the youth of Rouen.
~ Booth Tarkington
It snowed and snowed, the whole world over,Snow swept the world from end to end.A candle burned on the table;A candle burned.
~ Boris Pasternak