Candle Quotes - Page 17

• I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.

  Leonard Cohen

  Relationship, Jealous, Filled Up

  Song: One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong, Album: Songs of Leonard Cohen, 1967

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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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• 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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• 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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• I would love to make a 1830's period piece, a house in the country, a classic atmospheric haunted house movie, visually it would be so beautiful, the costumes, the candles, the darkness, and the quiet, no radio, to TV, the clock ticking away.

  Conor McPherson

  Beautiful, Country, House

  "Conor McPherson and Ciarán Hinds of 'The Eclipse'". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. March 25, 2010.

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• ... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn't even flicker.

  Frederick Buechner

  Rain, Winter, Flames

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• For mankind, science is the only real candle in this dark universe; all other candles are fake! Science is our only real hope; all other hopes are fake! Remember this!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Dark, Science

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• I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!

  Ray Bradbury

  Horse, Moving, Book

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• He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a fire, becomes boiling... Communion works like yeast that has been mixed into dough so that it leavens the whole mass; ...Just as by melting two candles together you get one piece of wax, so, I think, one who receives the Flesh and Blood of Jesus is fused together with Him by this Communion, and the soul finds that he is in Christ and Christ is in him

  Cyril of Alexandria

  Jesus, Thinking, Soul And Body

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• I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.

  Ion Keith-Falconer

  Christian, Prayer, Light

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• Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Passion, Blow

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• Let us be happy too when we see a happy man, because happiness is a candle light in this dark universe!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Happiness, Dark, Men

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• Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

  Francois Rabelais

  Exercise, Light, Sun

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• Tomorrow these villagers would carry their secret icons into the church without any priest and light the candles themselves, moving together in single-minded grace. Like the school of the fish, so driven to righteousness they could flout the law, declare the safety of their souls, then go home and destroy the evidence.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Moving, Home, School

  Barbara Kingsolver (2009). “The Lacuna”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city were burning outside. The whoosh of the flames was like a flock of birds, trapped and beating in a whirlwind near the ceiling. And I wouldn't have been at all surprised if the long mahogany banquet table, draped in linen, laden with china and candles and fruit and flowers, had simply vanished into thin air, like a magic casket in a fairy story.

  Donna Tartt

  Wall, Flower, Reflection

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.85, Vintage

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• The waterfront without the Ferry Tower would be like a birthday cake without a candle.

  Herb Caen

  Cake, Would Be, Towers

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• Scientists don't know what they are talking about when they talk about religion. Religion has nothing to do with belief, and I don't believe it has any negative impact on people's lives outside of intolerance. Why do I go to church? It's like asking, why did you marry that woman? You make up reasons, but it's probably just smell. I love the smell of candles. It's an aesthetic thing.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Believe, Impact, Talking

  "Nassim Nicholas Taleb: the Prophet of Boom and Doom" by Bryan Appleyard, www.thetimes.co.uk. June 01 2008,.

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• You can always meet stupid people in your life journey; you should treat them like the way candle treats darkness: Illuminate them!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Stupid, Journey

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• A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. life with ups and downs is better than a flat life or one that goes in circles. Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

  Marabel Morgan

  Leadership, Sports, Persistence

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• I'm looking for someone who will light candles, not just curse the darkness.

  Joshua Harris

  Light, Darkness, Curse

  Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.198, Multnomah

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• Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.

  Henry Fielding

  Merit, Modesty

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1784). “Plays”, p.467

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• Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: 'My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.' This stranger is a theologian.

  Denis Diderot

  Blow, Night, Light

  "Addition aux Pensées philosophiques". Book by Denis Diderot, 1770.

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• It is not just that we exist and God has always existed, it is also that God necessarily exists in an infinitely better, stronger, more excellent way. The difference between God's being and ours is more than the difference between the sun and a candle, more than the difference between the ocean and a raindrop... God's being is qualitatively different.

  Wayne Grudem

  Ocean, Differences, Stronger

  Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.148, Harper Collins

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• You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

  Paul Hawken

  Healing, Dark, Light

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• He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.

  Ray Bradbury

  Long, Skins, Burning

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.5, Hamilton Books

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