Best Candles Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“We have a Danish Christmas. On Christmas Eve we dance around the tree, hold hands, sing carols. There are real candles on the tree.”

“In the evening I love lighting all my candles. It creates such a beautiful ambiance.”

“Yes, I'm the crazy person who totally travels with candles.”

“There used to be a time when people used to hold up cigarette lighters and candles at concerts, and the place was aglow to celebrate the end of the evening, or during a slow song, there was this congregational euphoria that used to exist. It still does, but now it's a question of iPhones being held up.”

“I love 'O Holy Night.' On Christmas Eve, there's a service at the church where I grew up, and at midnight, we would always sing, 'O Holy Night' with candles.”

“I love having candles, especially when you get downtime. I could just pass out seeing the flame flicker with the lights off.”

“People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.”

“In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.”

“I love candles and creating a homely space.”

“I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.”

“My first novel, 'Compromising Positions,' was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends' December decorating options.”

“My grandfather, born in 1865, was a copper miner from the age of 10. The air down the mines was poisoned with arsenic, and working conditions were horrific. They only had candles for light, so they worked in a pitch-black environment.”

“For me, candlelit is the only way to have a dinner. There are always candles at my table. And I like to have Luis Miguel playing in the background.”

“I always pamper myself with scented candles. They make the room look beautiful and me feel pretty.”

“I'm obsessed with candles.”

“I just love candles... the colour, the glow, the light.”

“No hidden talents, but I have a lot of hobbies. Acrylic painting - I got a whole set, and I light candles at night and sit there and paint and look out on Lake Michigan.”

“I grew up during the war years in a tiny cottage with no electricity. Water for washing was pumped from a pond. My brother and I had to fetch drinking water from a tap at the end of the lane, and light was from candles, paraffin lamps, and our nightly log fire.”

“I have candles, pictures and flowers on my nightstand... and of course a lamp!”

“We grew up devout Catholics, so my trips to San Juan always include going to the churches that we used to go to and lighting candles and everything. Everything I do in San Juan is what I used to do with my mom, kind of as a tribute to her.”

“I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in all of my hotel rooms.”

“Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character.”

“But 'Sixteen Candles' is the only movie I could watch over and over and over without getting sick of it.”

“I love candles, they help me relax.”

“Once I was hosting an important dinner party at our house - everything was perfect, candles were lit, the house smelled amazing with great food and drinks ready. We lit a fire and the flue wasn't able to open, unbeknownst to us. We smoked out the entire house and the fire department had to come - it was a mess.”

“I am not at all a romantic person, I hate flowers and candles... rather find it irritating.”

“There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.”

“I see candles as varied things. They give a warm glow, and fire purifies.”

“Watching Rachel Maddow is like going to Target. You went in for milk, but you left with shampoo, candles, and the entire history of the Byzantine Empire. 'I didn't need this.'”

“I think people just think I am crazy because they see me doing stand-up, but I am generally not. I am very sad. I'm one of those guys that lights candles and listens to Rachmaninoff.”

“I had never seen the classics with Molly Ringwald, like 'Pretty in Pink' or 'Sixteen Candles,' or '80s horror, like 'Poltergeist,' 'Close Encounters,' and 'Nightmare on Elm Street.' I went back and watched all of those.”

“Though acting offers would keep coming and going, and I would pick up only the ones that I find good, my hands are literally full with candles... I can't think beyond them.”

“When all candles be out, all cats be grey.”

“I have always had an obsession with candles.”

“I fancy the romantic image of myself being soothed and inspired by music and the sweet aroma and flickering lights of candles.”

“The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.”

“Let's be honest: you can't celebrate fall without it's leading role - pumpkin! You can incorporate this flavor of the season in so many ways, from candles to lattes, pies to decorations.”

“I bring incense, essential oils, and candles to make my hotel room feel more like home.”

“I love prayer candles, and I use them often.”

“The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.”

“I like candles. It helps cover up for the fact that I have four male roommates.”

“I'm a huge John Hughes fan, and I grew up in the '80s, when his films came out. So, my introduction to what you'd call 'cinema love,' that illusion of love, was 'Sixteen Candles' and Molly Ringwald.”

“I love candles.”

“I love Hanukkah because it's so weird. You just sit there and light candles and say spells.”

“The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.”

“I have this one room - it has a TV, a sofa, some candles. I close the door, sit down and lose myself.”

“I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guests feel like it's not formal and they can relax in my home.”

“My great-grandfather was a coal miner, who worked in Pennsylvania mines when carts were pulled by mules and mines were lit by candles. Mining was very dangerous work then.”

“Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.”

“Most evenings I'll light a few candles, get snuggled on the sofa, and read a magazine.”

“I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present.”

“I do not write dark books. I write candles. I write fire.”