TOP 10 candle quotes

10

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.

9

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

8

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

7

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

6

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

5

He loved the desert because there the wind blew out one's footsteps like candle flames.

4

When life descends into the pit. I must become my own candle. Willingly burning my self. To light up the darkness around me.

3

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

2

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch, which I have a hold of for the moment. George Bernard Shaw

1

Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.