Flickering Light Quotes:

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

source: "The Greatest Salesman in the World". Book by Og Mandino, 1968.

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Stars, Spiritual Darkness, Spiritual Light

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

- Edith Wharton

source: "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Empowering Women, Social Good

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Love, Dream, Stay Strong, Just Stay Strong, St Valentine

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Love, Life, Friendship, If You Love Someone, Marriage Advice

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

- Aristotle Onassis

topic: Inspirational, Light, Focus, Darkness To Light, Inspirational Long Distance

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

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Spiritual, Men, Fire, Spiritual Awareness, Spiritual Buddhist

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

- Denis Diderot

topic: Blow, Light, Darkness, Flickering Light

The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

- Plato

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Afraid Of Life, Darkness To Light

The miracle, of course, was not that the oil for the sacred light - in a little cruse - lasted as long as they say; but that the courage of the Maccabees lasted to this day: let that nourish my flickering spirit.

- Charles Reznikoff

source: Charles Reznikoff, Seamus Cooney (2005). “The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975”, p.226, David R. Godine Publisher

topic: Light, Oil, Long, Flickering Light, Hanukkah

As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all the lights in the house and let flickering candlelight conjure up scary shadows and create the effect of imaginary figures lurking in dark corners.

- Pippa Middleton

topic: Children, Dark, Night, Candlelight, Flickering Light

I don't know why, but the warmth and the comfort of flickering light help. And a fire, in the fireplace or on the beach, is very comforting. I think when you make something consistent and familiar, it helps. I light candles every single night in my home.

- Evangeline Lilly

source: Source: www.justjared.com

topic: Beach, Home, Night, Fireplaces, Flickering Light

In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again. During free time he had almost never looked up from the pages he was reading, but now he saw the books anew, from without rather than from within, and was reminded of how beautiful they were simply as objects. The geometrical wonder of them all, each book on its own and all the books together, row upon row, the infinite patterns and possibilities they presented. They were truly lovely.

- Trenton Lee Stewart

topic: Love, Beautiful, Book, Flickering Light

Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Song, Stars, Memories, Flickering Light, Moors

Flickering lights anonymous doors my heart escaping in drips i'm still waking up but she's still sleeping this ICU is hotel for the dead

- Maggie Stiefvater

topic: Heart, Sleep, Light, Flickering Light

Identity is gradual, cumulative; because there is no need for it to manifest itself, it shows itself intermittently, the way a star hints at the pulse of its being by means of its flickering light. But at what moment in this oscillation is our true self manifested? In the darkness or the twinkle?

- Sergio Chejfec

topic: Stars, Mean, Self, Oscillation, Flickering Light

A candle is a living, flickering light. It can easily be blown out. As we watch a candle burn we see the wax diminish. It melts away - a symbol for life. [...] Candles have long been central to worship. By lighting them we announce that we are entering into a different sense of time. Not the usual ticktock time of daily living, but sacred time, a timeless time.

- Gunilla Brodde Norris

topic: Life, Time, Book, Daily Living, Flickering Light

When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.

- Catherynne M. Valente

topic: Mean, Light, Forever, Flickering Light, Black Death

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you.

- Eugenio Montale

topic: Love You, Eye, Feet, Flickering Light