Candlelight Quotes

• Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Happy, Buddhist

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• It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Dark, Looks

  As quoted in "7 Laws of Human Nature: The Oneness of Universal Love" by Conrad Spainhower, 2017.

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• If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you

  Henry Rollins

  Wall, Writing, Night

  Henry Rollins (1996). “Do I Come Here Often”, 2.13.61 Publications

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

  Edith Wharton

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

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• Candlelight and red wine? I don't know. Vulnerability catches me off guard every single time.

  Madi Diaz

  Wine, Red, Catch Me

  "Madi Diaz: Loving the Process". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The rivers of dark smoke pour upward lazily, And the moon rise and turn them silver. I shall see The springs, the summers, and the autumns slowly pass; And when old Winter puts his blank face to the glass, I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight, And build me stately palaces by candlelight.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Stars, Spring

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• I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

  Joe Hill

  House, Tree, Waiting

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• I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it.

  Nicole Kidman

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Nov 27, 2016

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• Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Relationship, Anniversary

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• There is no evil and there are no evil forces in the world. There are only people of awareness, and there are people who are fast asleep - and sleep has no force. The whole energy is in the hands of the awakened people. And one awakened person can awaken the whole world. One lighted candle can make millions of candles lighted without losing it's light.

  Rajneesh

  Sleep, Light, Hands

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• The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

  Francis Bacon

  Color, Sea, White

  Francis Bacon (2014). “Essays: Or Counsels, Civil and Moral”, p.124, The Floating Press

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• There's more, much more, to Christmas Than candlelight and cheer; It's the spirit of sweet friendship That brightens all year. It's thoughtfulness and kindness, It's hope reborn again, For peace, for understanding, And for goodwill to men!

  Calvin Coolidge

  Sweet, Kindness, Cheer

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• Be gentle with me, new love. Treat me tenderly. I need the gentle touch, the soft voice, the candlelight after nine. There's been so many who didn't understand so give me all the love I see in your timid eyes but give it gently Please.

  Rod McKuen

  Eye, Gentle Touch, Voice

  Rod McKuen (1970). “Listen to the Warm”

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• A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

  Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

  Thank You, Appreciation, Teacher

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• 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!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Love, Night, Light

  A Few Figs from Thistles "First Fig" l. 1 (1920)

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• Women don't want all that. Women just want a partner who is considerate and attentive, who will spoon with them while reciting Keats, and feed them organic yogurt by candlelight on a seaside cliff at sunset.

  Stephen Colbert

  Sunset, Spoons, Want

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• Counting stars by candlelight all are dim but one is bright; the spiral light of Venus rising first and shining best, from the northwest corner of a brand-new crescent moon crickets and cicadas sing a rare and different tune.

  Robert Hunter

  Stars, Moon, Light

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.263, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.

  Janet Fitch

  Fall, Artist, Light

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• We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Humor, Television Watching

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• You don't need candlelight and fireside glow to make Christmas happen. Trees, ornaments, gifts, and all of it are splendid embellishments. Not necessary, but so very nice. It's Him...It's priceless to discover the pleasure of His company...May your home know something of all this glory during these days.

  Jack W. Hayford

  Christmas, Nice, Home

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• I'm big on taking the lady out to dinner. We have some candlelight romance every now and then. And our whole family is within a 6-mile radius. It's disgustingly domestic. I'm big on Costco.

  Dave Grohl

  Romance, Dinner, Now And Then

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• Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me its a form of sacrament.

  Sally Quinn

  Funny, Religious, Party

  "Sally Quinn on Author Karen Armstrong". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. March 29, 2006.

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• Work a great deal at evening effects, lamplight, candlelight, etc. The intriguing thing is not to show the source of the light but the effect of the lighting.

  Edgar Degas

  Light, Etc, Evening

  Robert Hale Ives Gammell, Edgar Degas (1961). “The shop-talk of Edgar Degas”

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• Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry: "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Neon. Incandescent. Lights that banish the darkness from our caves, to illuminate our roads, the insides of our refrigerators. Big floods for the night games at Soldier's field. Little tiny flashlight for those books we read under the covers when we're supposed to be asleep. Light is more than watts and footcandles. Light is metaphor... Light is knowledge. Light is life. Light is light.

  Diane Frolov

  Book, Knowledge, Night

  "Northern Exposure". www.imdb.com. 1990-1995.

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