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  • We're not really afraid to die. We're only afraid of being forgotten. We know that we'll be forgotten, and the idea is unbearable, don't you agree? As time passes we become infrequent visitors in the minds of those left behind. The ones who clear out the house & divide up the belongings. Throw away the rubbish. And forget. If we knew that every evening someone lit a candle and sat down to think – thought about is if only for a few seconds – then we could depart this earth in peace. No-one will light a candle for me. Who would do that?

    Thinking   Light   Ideas  
    Karin Fossum (2008). “When The Devil Holds The Candle”, p.84, Random House
  • I was the rector's son, born to the anglican order, Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor; The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.

    Son   Order   Necks  
    Louis MacNeice (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.91, Faber & Faber
  • Everybody is a candle, true. But not everybody is lit.

    Lit   Candle  
  • He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun

    Spiritual   Wisdom   Men  
  • You need to turn your room into a place of power. It's a good idea to have flowers around, candles, incense, you know, happy things. Make your room into a beautiful place and keep it impeccably clean.

  • Hope works in these ways: it looks for the good in people instead of harping on the worst; it discovers what can be done instead of grumbling about what cannot; it regards problems, large or small, as opportunities; it pushes ahead when it would be easy to quit; it lights the candle instead of cursing the darkness.

  • Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.

    Cake   Wish   Adults  
    Susan Patron, Matt Phelan (2009). “Lucky Breaks”, p.67, Simon and Schuster
  • Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature.

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

    "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)
  • We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

    Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, en.wikisource.org. July 15, 1960.
  • It's better to light a candle than to curse the dark In the eyes of the youth, there are question marks

    Eye   Dark   Light  
    Song: In The Beginning
  • The proper response, as Hanukkah teaches, is not to curse the darkness but to light a candle.

    Irving Greenberg (2011). “The Jewish Way: Living the Holidays”, p.282, Simon and Schuster
  • It's a little scary when you - I got - I just got a box to my house for my birthday from this girl who writes - I mean it's a box of like - just like body lotions and stuff like this. And like this little box of dog toys in there. There's - you name it, candles, it's like this little box that she put together for my birthday. But she wrote in it and it came to my house.

    Girl   Dog   Mean  
    Source: www.movieweb.com
  • This, more than anything else, is what I have never understood about your people. You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this naught of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draft.

    Night   Men   Hands  
    Robin Hobb (2014). “The Farseer Trilogy 3-Book Bundle: Assassin's Apprentice, Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest”, p.1021, Del Rey
  • My sister had blown out the candle in our breath.That meant our wishes were definitely going to come true

  • The candles burned The moon went down The polished hill The milky town Transparent, weightless, luminous Uncovering the two of us On that fundamental ground Where love's unwilled, unleashed, unbound And half the perfect world is found.

    Moon   Two   Perfect  
    Leonard Cohen (2008). “Book of Longing”, p.226, McClelland & Stewart
  • He had grieved for me, I'll give him that much. But then he is so good at grieving! He wears woe as others wear velvet; sorrow flatters him like the light of candles; tears become him like jewels.

    Grieving   Light   Jewels  
    Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.2112, Ballantine Books
  • Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.

  • Cancer has pizzazz, box office and glamour, and in actual dollars and prestige, even heart and mental can't hold a candle to it. It's a health dodge with a future and everybody who's anybody is jumping in.

    Cancer   Heart   Dark  
  • I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself.

    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.348, Tuttle Publishing
  • There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting - that does not apply to the turkey breast, which is, really, a convenience of food... A turkey without seasonal angst is like a baseball game without a national anthem, a winter without snow, a birthday party without candles.

  • Tonight we light these candles to honor the value and the work of Jyoti Singh's short, promising life, she was India's daughter. Tonight she's our daughter too.

    Life   Daughter   Light  
  • India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers digging a trench to lay fiber optic cables to speed up digital revolution. They work by the light of a few candles.

    Source: www.progressive.org
  • I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men.

    Science   Men   Light  
    Michael Faraday (2016). “The Chemical History of a Candle”, p.89, Library of Alexandria
  • There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out.

    'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 4
  • A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire." If only I were as eloquent as Mr. de la Rochefoucauld...I miss you, I miss you, I miss you. And I want you. And I need your kiss. And your touch on my skin like a man needs water. Always.

    Kissing   Blow   Men  
    Karen White (2010). “On Folly Beach”, p.38, Penguin
  • Sith Nature thus gave her the praise, To be the chiefest work she wrought, In faith, methink, some better ways On your behalf might well be sought, Than to compare, as ye have done, To match the candle with the sun.

    Beauty   Done   Sith  
    Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (Illustrated)”, p.45, Delphi Classics
  • The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles.

    Golden   Lines   Littles  
    Constantine P. Cavafy, “Candles”
  • 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.

    Light   Giving   Lovely  
    Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.13, Atlantic Books Ltd
  • He gave me heaven and earth, and assumed I'd be satisfied; Actually I was too embarrassed to argue. The spiritual seekers are tired, two or three at each stage of the path. The rest who have given up never knew your address at all. There are so many in this gathering who wish the candle well. But if the being of the candle is melting, what can the sorrow-sharers do?

    Spiritual   Tired   Two  
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