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Quotes About Flame

I believe art is a connection, like passing on a flame.
~ Wangechi Mutu
Rankin lit a cigarette with a handsome gold lighter, stared into the flame for a moment as if it might provide a clue to the origins of the explosion, and then said, 'What do you think
~ Philip Kerr
If she were writing by candlelight she would now be in the dark, for a living flame would refuse to be fed by such pure exhaustion. Actually she is in the dark, for the
~ Philip Levine
If she were writing by candlelight she would now be in the dark, for a living flame would refuse to be fed by such pure exhaustion.
~ Philip Levine
Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash.
~ Philippe Besson
Yep, I often lit the barbie with old drafts.
~ Richard Flanagan
Tell your mother the Law of Stolen Flight.' 'Only flame, and things with wings. All the rest suffer stings.
~ Jonathan Carroll
Canary light of oil lamps
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Even the biggest blaze, though, has to start somewhere, with a tiny spark, or arsonists would be out of business.
~ A.P.
Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
~ Aberjhani
All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles and ghosts of men, and spirits behind those birds of flame. I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or closes, I can only hear the frame saying, Walk through.
~ Ada Limón
you can't start a fire without a spark.
~ Adam Rutherford
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?
~ Helen Hunt Jackson
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
~ August Strindberg
There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.
~ Pliny
I am consumed perpetually by an inner spiritual flame.
~ Quentin Crisp
for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Let thy love play upon my voice and rest on my silence. Let it pass through my heart into all my movements. Let thy love like stars shine in the darkness of my sleep and dawn in my awakening. Let it burn in the flame of my desires And flow in all currents of my own love. Let me carry thy love in my life as a harp does its music, and give it back to thee at last with my life.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
he feared that the flame of a prayer lamp that illuminated the home could also set the house on fire.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Mientras estemos en llamas, sepamos arder y bullir
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Thou hast left thy memory as a flame to my lonely lamp of separation
~ Rabindranath Tagore
What is this unseen flame of darkness whose sparks are the stars?
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Love cannot burn constantly.
~ Pierce Brosnan