Quotes and Sayings about Candles

All of the world's darkness isn't enough to extinguish one candle's light.

Roman Herzog (as President of Germany) - Dezember 1998

Even the smallest candle pierces the darkness like the sharpest blade.

Better light a candle than curse the darkness.

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.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - The Way of Kings

Many years ago, this candle blessed our family with a miracle. Our house, our Casita, came to life with magic!

Abuela Madrigal in Encanto

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Bob Hope

Birthday

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

Edith Wharton

Light

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.

Mitch Hedberg

Pies & Cakes

If it weren't for electricity, we'd all be watching television by candlelight.

George Gobel

Television Power & Electricity

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, "See if you can blow this out."

Jerry Seinfeld

Birthday

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

Buddha

Spirituality

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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Courage Light

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

Madeleine L'Engle - A Ring of Endless Light

Light Darkness

Shadow and light are two sides of the same coin, one cannot exist without the other.

The Legend of Zelda in The Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess

Light Shadows

There's always a little light in the darkness.

Jackie Estecado in The Darkness

Light Darkness

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak.

Foolishness Light

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Og Mandino

Light Darkness Stars

When it's light, you can't see into a place that's dark. But when it's dark, you can see what's around you much better.

Sam Fisher in Splinter Cell - Conviction

Light Darkness

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Aristotle

Light Motivation

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Francis Bacon

Light Darkness Good & Evil

Shadow owes its birth to light.

John Gay

Light Shadows

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

Hans Hofmann

Colors Light

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Francis of Assisi

Sun Light Darkness

Christmas - The time of love and consciousness, until someone came up with the whole presents-thing.

Christmas Gifts & Presents Advent

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

Edna Ferber

Christmas Advent

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

Children & Childhood Birthday Age

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller in Don Carlos

Youth Men Birthday Age

Nothing ages faster than knowledge.

Roman Herzog

Knowledge

This is where we belong. Exploring this vast and wondrous world. Its treasures call out to be discovered. Its ancient secrets beckon us ever deeper into the unkown. The further we journey from the safety of the light, the greater the rewards and the dangers. This world... it is for us. Here together, we can build ourselves a home.

Pax Dei

Rivers do not drink their own water. Trees do not eat their own fruit. And clouds do not swallow their own rain. What great ones have is always for the benefit of others.

Rikki in Days Gone

Trees Clouds Rivers

Tress considered herself to be categorically boring. She liked her tea lukewarm, she went to bed on time, she loved her parents, occasionally squabbled with her little brother, and didn't litter. She was fair at needlepoint, and had a talent for baking. But had no other noteworthy skills. She didn't train at fencing in secret, she couldn't talk to animals, she had no hidden royalty or deities in her lineage. Though her great-grandmother Glorf had once reportedly waved at the king.

Brandon Sanderson in Tress of the Emerald Sea

Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.

Brandon Sanderson in The Stormlight Archive - Oathbringer

Sad Quotes

Even in our darkest moments, there's light where you least expect it.

Mirabel Madrigal in Encanto

Hope

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

Medieval

People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.

Bob Hope

Kissing

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Edith Wharton

Boredom

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling. I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

Mitch Hedberg

Gambling

"I'll make eggs for breakfast. How do you want yours?"
"In a cheesecake!"

Pies & Cakes Eggs

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today - for tomorrow's gonna be bad enough as it is.

George Gobel

Laziness

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

T. S. Eliot

Media Television

Sitting still, a person produces about 100 watts of heat. What if you could use that to charge your cell phone?

Lonnie Johnson

Power & Electricity Energy

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

Jerry Seinfeld

Newspapers

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