Candle Quotes - Page 16

• Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone.

  John Selden

  Christian, Prayer, Light

  John Selden (1819). “Table talk: being the discourses of John Selden, esq”, p.61

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• I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.

  Bruce Lee

  Warrior, Light, Medicine

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.348, Tuttle Publishing

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

  Rumi

  Heart, Longing, Lit

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• Man's best candle is his understanding.

  James Howell

  Men, Understanding

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• Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.

  Anthony Rapp

  Grief, Doe, Temperature

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• When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

  Philip Pullman

  Choices, Doing Nothing, Way

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Air, Flames, Needs

  Nadine Gordimer (1998). “The House Gun: A Novel”, p.54, Macmillan

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• What they had between them was still as fragile as flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed.

  Cassandra Clare

  Flames, Eggshells, Break

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.607, Simon and Schuster

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• She was the kind of person who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Light, Darkness, Kind

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• 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

  Light, Darkness, Littles

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• Mary bring out your umbrella - The sun shines down on this fine, fine day But the ashes raining down forever Are going to turn your hair to gray. Mary keep your oars a-steady Sail away on the rising flood Keep your candle at the ready Red tides can't be told from blood. - "Miss Mary" (a common child's clapping game, dating from the time of the blitz), from Pattycake and Beyond: A History of Play

  Lauren Oliver

  Children, Rain, Games

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• I sometimes felt as if these marks on my body were a kind of code, which blossomed, then faded, like invisible ink held to a candle. But if they were a code, who held the key to it? I was sand, I was snow — written on, rewritten, smoothed over.

  Margaret Atwood

  Keys, Snow, Invisible Ink

  "The Blind Assassin". Book by Margaret Atwood, September 2, 2000.

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• He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.

  Anne Rice

  Grieving, Light, Jewels

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2112, Ballantine Books

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• I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.

  Sylvia Plath

  Christmas, Disappointment, Fire

  Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.65, Faber & Faber

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• How many miles to Babylon? Three-score and ten. Can I get there by candle-light? Yes, there and back again. If your heels are nimble and light, You will get there by candle-light

  Mira Grant

  Light, Three, Nimble

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• Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.

  Dylan Thomas

  Love Is, Men, Thinking

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• There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundreds upon thousands of candles. The whole graveyard was one swarm of candleshine as if a population of fireflies had heard of a Grand Conglomeration and had flown here to settle in and flame upon the stones and light the brown faces and the dark eyes and the black hair.

  Ray Bradbury

  Daughter, Eye, Son

  Ray Bradbury (2015). “The Halloween Tree”, p.100, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Running, Kings, Men

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.369, Macmillan

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• The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.

  Janet Fitch

  Happy Birthday, Party, Cake

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.

  Terry Pratchett

  Night, Long, Bravery

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• Love is who you are. Your true self is pure love, infinite awareness, and unbounded joy...As you realize this, you will feel a small light in your heart. At first it will be the size of a spark, then a candle flame, then a raging bonfire.

  Deepak Chopra

  Heart, Love Is, Light

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• If you sexy and you know it and you ain't afraid to show it. Put a candle on my motherfu*king back baby blow it.

  Rihanna

  Sexy, Baby, Kings

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• In a time of darkness, you don't curse the darkness, you light a candle.

  Al Gore

  Light, Darkness, Curse

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• Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (2) Thousands of willow branches in a spring wind. Six hundred million of China, land of the gods, and exemplary like the emperors Shun and Yao. A scarlet rain of peach blossoms turned into waves and emerald mountains into bridges. Summits touch the sky. We dig with silver shovels and iron arms shake the earth and the Three Rivers. God of plagues, where are you going? We burn paper boats and bright candles to light his way to heaven.

  Mao Zedong

  Spring, Rain, Land

  Zedong Mao (2008). “The Poems of Mao Zedong”, p.91, Univ of California Press

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• Keepers of light carry invisible candles of hope, touching hearts and illuminating the souls of friends.

  Tom Baker

  Heart, Light, Soul

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