Candle Quotes - Page 12

• The Heart is like a candle,
  longing to be lit!

  Rumi

  Heart, Longing, Lit

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• Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.

  Roger Waters

  Dark, Light, Corners

  Song: Each Small Candle

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• Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath.... a little winter no spring can melt.

  Marge Piercy

  Sweet, Spring, Wine

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• So," he said, "we ourselves will be the candle flames." He put his hands on his chest. "Feel your hearts, how warm they are.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Heart, Flames, Hands

  Jerry Spinelli (2003). “Milkweed”, p.161, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'd sit around dreaming that the boys I saw at shows or at work - the boys with silver earrings and big boots - would tell me I was beautiful, take me home and feed me Thai food or omelets and undress me and make love to me all night with the palm trees whispering windsongs about a tortured gleaming city and the moonlight like flame melting our candle bodies.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Beautiful, Dream, Home

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• Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

  Neal Shusterman

  Flames, Two, Silence

  Neal Shusterman (2009). “Unwind”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many.

  William Bradford

  Light, Hands, Giving

  William Bradford (1870). “A Dialogue, or third conference between some young men born in New England, and some ancient men which cam out of Holland and Old England, concerning the Church and the government thereof ... Edited, with a preface and notes, by Charles Deane. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society”, p.6

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• I wrapped my arms around me as tightly as I could, and stared up at the stars. Had I not been so cold and wanting to escape so badly, I could have stared at them forever: They were amazingly beautiful, so dense and bright. My eyes could get lost up there if I left them looking long enough. [...] They swallowed me up. They were like a hundred thousand tiny candles, sending out hope.

  Lucy Christopher

  Beautiful, Stars, Eye

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.62, Scholastic Inc.

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• He pushed himself to his feet. “Don’t lie, Sansa. I am malformed, scarred, and small, but…” she could see him groping “…abed, when the candles are blown out, I am made no worse than other men. In the dark, I am the Knight of Flowers.” He took a draught of wine. “I am generous. Loyal to those who are loyal to me. I’ve proven I’m no craven. And I am cleverer than most, surely wits count for something. I can even be kind. Kindness is not a habit with us Lannisters, I fear, but I know I have some somewhere. I could be… I could be good to you.

  George R. R. Martin

  Kindness, Lying, Flower

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.1933, Bantam

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• There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it in the center of the table. The cake had a book drawn on it, in icing. My mother, who had organized the party, told me that the lady at the bakery said that they had never put a book on a birthday cake before, and that mostly for boys it was footballs or spaceships. I was their first book.

  Neil Gaiman

  Football, Mother, Party

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again. During free time he had almost never looked up from the pages he was reading, but now he saw the books anew, from without rather than from within, and was reminded of how beautiful they were simply as objects. The geometrical wonder of them all, each book on its own and all the books together, row upon row, the infinite patterns and possibilities they presented. They were truly lovely.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Love, Beautiful, Book

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• Cancer has pizzazz, box office and glamour, and in actual dollars and prestige, even heart and mental can't hold a candle to it. It's a health dodge with a future and everybody who's anybody is jumping in.

  Edgar Berman

  Cancer, Heart, Dark

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• 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

  Life, Stars, Heart

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• Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

  Leo Tolstoy

  Loving Life, Men, Lasts

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• I dyed my hair red when I was ten and when I was 11 - in my goth period - I dyed it black and I was really into witchcraft. I made mini shrines in my bedroom with candles and tried to cast spells to make the boy in the next class fall in love with me. I don't think he did.

  Florence Welch

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Boys

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• 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 who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.

  Jack Kerouac

  Lonely, Stars, Home

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.291, Penguin

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• Regard this fleeting world like this:
  Like stars fading and vanishing at dawn,
  like bubbles on a fast-moving stream,
  like morning dewdrops evaporating on blades of grass,
  like a candle flickering in a strong wind...
  echoes, mirages, and phantoms, hallucinations,
  and like a dream.

  Gautama Buddha

  Dream, Strong, Morning

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• It's time to blow out the candles on the pity party cake.

  Louie Giglio

  Party, Blow, Cake

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• I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun came up on the way, and the swamp maples and dogwood glowed crimson and orange and the stone walls and cornfields sparkled with hoar frost; the air was keen and clear and full of promise. I knew something was going to happen.

  Jean Webster

  Wall, Fall, Orange

  Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.108, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Educational, War, Independent

  1964 UnderstandingMedia, ch.33.

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• The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. It is the source of all true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Art, Fundamentals

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• LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it: you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back? Why all that pain. again. and you, such a fighter you fought me over and over with tears and words and promises. you fought for me with honesty and a light so bright it hurts my heart. sweet lorna. at peace now finally no more battles, just light from within a flickering candle in the dark burns with you.

  Wallace Stevens

  Sweet, Hurt, Peace

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• When the candles are out all women are fair.

  Plutarch

  Fairs

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch. Chapter "Conjugal Precepts",

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• As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

  William Bradford

  Light, May, Christianity

  Nathaniel Morton, William Bradford, Thomas Prince, Edward Winslow (1669). “New-England's Memorial”, p.110

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• If I get married one day, or meet the girl I like, I’ll prepare 100m to 150m of candles, or maybe red carpet

  Lee Donghae

  Girl, One Day, Red

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