Candle Metaphor Quotes

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle might light a thousand, so the light here [in Plymouth Colony] kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

Blow the candle out, I don't need to see what my thoughts look like.

A few years ago, I got to a point where I realised that the only way you can tell someone's age is how they live their life. The candles on the cake mean absolutely nothing.

The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.

Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.

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

I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.

Loving the same man or woman all your life, why, that's like supposing the same candle could last you all your life

I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society. Perhaps, my belief is along the old saying that 'it is always better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.'

She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

If you don't burn the candle at both ends, what's the candle got two ends for?

He who lights his [candle] at mine receives light without darkening me.

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.

Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a candle stayed alight.

Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone.

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.

The music paled like a candle and went out.