If you are after some of the best candle quotes, sayings, and proverbs, youâre in the right place! đŻ
Below, I have rounded up some of the most beautiful, loving, eye-opening, and inspiring quotes about candles that are great for positivity and appreciation.
Side note: If I have missed any must-have quotes, or if you have created your own, please share them in the comments and I will include them in future updates! đ
73+ Bright & Illuminating Candle Quotes!
1. “The sun is God’s candle.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
2. “Light is warmer than darkness.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
3. “One man’s candle is light for many.” – Talmud Shabbat
4. “To light a candle is to cast a shadow.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
5. “Reality is a candle, truth is the flame.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
6. “A candle is at its brightest in the dark.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
7. “True friends are like a candle burning in the dark.” – Unknown
8. “I am a candle in a world full of flashlights.” – Rainbow Harvest
9. “Love is the fire of love; it either consumes or purifies.” – Unknown
10. “The flame of hope should never go out of your life.” – Proverb
11. “A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.” – James Keller
12. “Burn not thy fingers to snuff another manâs candle.” – James Howell
13. “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” – Maya Angelou
14. “The wind forgets, but the flame remembers.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
15. “When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.” – George R.R. Martin
16. “Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
17. “Don’t be a star in the sky, be a candle in the dark.” – Tammu Dreamer
18. “Love is the only candle whose flame is eternally lit.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
19. “Mother is like a candle, she burnt and give light to her home.” – Sagar.B.E
20. “A candle in the wind is as valiant as a star in the sky.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
21. “A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.” – Thomas Jefferson
22. “Your soul is like a candle; when lit by love, it shines.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
23. “A burning candle has nowhere to hide in the dark.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
24. “If you have the knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” – Margaret Fuller
25. “Live as intensely as possible, burn your candle of life from both ends.” – Osho
26. “It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
27. “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” – Anne Frank
28. “Blowing out someone else’s candle doesn’t make you shine any brighter.” – Proverb
29. “When the sun sets, candle starts seeing itself like the sun.” – Mehmet Murat ildan
30. “You can blow out a candle, but you cannot blow out a star.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
31. “Light the candle of success with the flame of excellence.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
32. “It is in the dark, not the light, that a candle shines the brightest.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
33. “Be like a candle, consume yourself to light the ways of others.” – Shabina Khan
34. “Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.” – Buddha
35. “We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.” – Thomas Edison
36. “Life is like a candle. The person who goes in a good way they only reach success.” – Keerthi
37. “Don’t let anyone dim your light, especially when your light is worth shining.” – Unknown
38. “Sacrifice is the common thread between a mother and a candle.” – Saurabh Manchand
39. “You shine to be a candle, but you must shine brightest to be a star.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
40. “A candle in your room is brighter than ten thousand stars in the sky.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
41. “The flickering candle casts liquid shadows. Stay in the middle for as long as you can.” – Proverb
42. “Family is a candle burning at both ends – stay in the middle for as long as you can.” – Bert McCoy
43. “I believe that it is better to light one candle than to promise a million light bulbs.” – Stephen Harper
44. “Wisdom holds a candle to experience, but youâve got to take the candle and walk alone.” – Lauren Kate
45. “Meekness is not weakness, but weakness can be masked as meekness.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
46. “A good teacher is like a candle â it consumes itself to light the way for others.” – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
47. “No wonder God chose this dark land to send prophets to, for a candle only shines in the dark.” – Rami Ollaik
47. “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” – Francis of Assisi
48. “Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.” – Rumi
49. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
50. “Simple is her aim; to be a candle that lightens the world with the name of the Beloved.” – Mahrukh Memon
51. “The candles were adored and worshipped like idols, for, after all, they invoked the gods of light.” – Unknown
52. “Like the candle that melts in salvation, find the vibe that matches your intuition.” – Subiya Hussain
53. “We say God and the imagination are one… How high that highest candle lights the dark.” – Wallace Steven
54. “If you have a candle, you can only see the world. If you have love, you can see the universe.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
55. “Let us be the candle that endures heat to provide light and, not the wax that hurts by sticking on to us.” – S Roses S
56. “How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.” – William Shakespeare
57. “Go within every day and find the inner strength, so that the world blow your candle out.” – Katherine Dunham
58.”Just as a candle is useless until you light it, so a man is useless until the fire inside his soul is lit.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
59. “The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.” – T.B. Joshua
60. “Every candle deserves great respect because they light us by burning their bodies and destroying themselves!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
61. “If I burn the candles, it means not only giving you light. It means to show you the fire which I have inside.” – Gaurav GRV Sharma
62. “If you grow from inside to outside, you will be the light else if you grow from outside to inside, you will be the candle.” – Jagadeesh Kumar
63. “Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.” – Kamand Kojouri
64. “At the heart of its strength is a weakness: an alone candle can hold it back. Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.” – Matthew Stover
65. “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
66. “Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.” – James Russell Lowell
67. “A single candle has the power to light up a room, a single star has the power to light up the sky, and a single soul has the power to light up the world.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
68. “I’m the least spiritual person in the world. I can’t even abide by a smelly candle. I know it’s meant to make me relax, and that immediately makes my hackles rise.” – Jenny Eclair
69. “Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts.” – Leo Tolstoy
70. “You may throw your card on the table and people follow, but remember that in life every candle has it time to be faded! So be simple and kind.” – Bruce Mbanzabugabo
71. “Every candle that gets lit in the darkroom must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but the last thing I want from those who hold a different world view to me is to accept me.” – Kirk Cameron
72. “A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go into the flame and sizzle to nothingness because they’re so eager to get to the light on the other side.” – Michael Cunningham
Final Thoughts
Hopefully, this list of candle quotes has helped to âshine some lightâ on your situation, whether that is going through a tough time, showing love to someone, or for appreciation.
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