“She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.”

“Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark.”

“Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.”

“She only felt that the candle would burn better, the packing go easier, the world be happier, if she could give and receive some human love.”

“And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind,
Never knowing who to cling to
When the rain set in.
And I would have liked to have known you,
But I was just a kid.
Your candle burned out long before
Your legend ever did.”

“You can blow out a candle
But you can't blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher”

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

“Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.”

“Life is just a candle, and a dream must give it flame…
-- The Fountain of Lamneth (1975)”

“This light is for the world.
Send out from this wooden frame
a beacon made of holy flame
like a bridge across the morning sky
from candle to the hills of high
this light is for the world.”