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Candle Quotes

Jack Kerouac quote about the mad ones

The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

– Jack Kerouac

On The Road. Narrator Sal Paradise in Part One, Chapter 1.

I don’t hold any candle for drama versus comedy.

– Jo Brand

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

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

– James Keller

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

– Buddha

I hold no candle for George Osborne whatsoever. He has no strategic skills, is a hopeless chancellor, has no idea how most people have to live and his policies are failing and hurting millions.

– Alastair Campbell

Before bed, I read a book or flip on the radio – I’m not picky, I’ll just turn it on and see what comes up. I burn a yummy lavender- scented candle.

– Carrie Underwood

In one way, I suppose, I have been ‘in denial’ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.

– Christopher Hitchens

That feeling when you’re so cold you’d give anything to be warm – I’ve had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.

– Bear Grylls

I was eating beans by candle light for a decade.

– Eric Andre

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

– Dean Inge

I went to a Turkish hairdresser, and they burned the hair off my ears with a lit taper. They just put the burning candle near your ears and you hear the hair being burned away. And the smell – urggh!

– Neil Morrissey

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author’s. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you and me, they are more alive. Becky Sharp, Elizabeth Bennett, and Don Quixote may not outlive the burning out of the sun, but they will certainly outlive the brief candle of our lives.

– Cynthia Ozick

I have way too many candles. There’s always a candle burning at home.

– Erin Heatherton

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

– Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nothing is more satisfying to me than sitting in a dank room, hunched over a single flickering candle like Ebenezer Scrooge, and watching my ledgers fill themselves with ink.

– Michael Ian Black

Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.

– Geraldine Brooks

The reason there’s no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn’t have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

– Chris Cornell

I think there’s something in the human psyche that we’re titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

– Jeffrey Combs

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

– Mitch Hedberg

I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart, which shall not be put out.

– The Bible

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table.

– Marilyn vos Savant

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man’s candle.

– James Howell

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.

– Michael Leunig

I have a candle permanently on my Jacuzzi because I love me some candles.

– Ronda Rousey

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

– Rabindranath Tagore

The candle of liberty has always been kept lit by a vigilant few.

– Russell Pearce

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

– William Arthur Ward

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

– Ursula K. Le Guin

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