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Quotes About Flame

Luke's head and shoulders were limmed above me, his hair a crown of coppery flame in what could be the light of early morning or evening. He was smiling again.
~ Roger Zelazny
She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
~ Lewis Carroll
altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out
~ Lewis Carroll
And 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.
~ Lewis Carroll
Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws himself into the purest flame.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Love is the only flame that can light up your soul and universe simultaneously.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
below. After the war had been won by Germany, it was supposed to become a shrine. There is a central circle with provision for an eternal flame in the center
~ Alex Lukeman
At last, the luminous match was struck and the day was lit.
~ Dorit Rabinyan
She went to the house and lit a candle. The candle cried: 'I am being killed.' The flame: 'I am killing you.' The maid answered: 'It is true, true. For I see your white blood.' Meanwhile
~ Douglas Botting
Less than a drop of blood remains in me that does not tremble; I recognize the signals of the ancient flame.
~ Durante degli Alighieri
Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.
~ Durante degli Alighieri
Color is life, for a world without color seems dead. As a flame produces light, light produces color. As intonation lends color to the spoken word, color lends spiritually realized sound to a form.
~ Johannes Itten
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.
~ George Bernard Shaw
You can be the catalyst that sparks a cultural flame.
~ Jim Knight
Come on, baby, light my fireTry to set the night on fire.
~ Jim Morrison
a single tongue of flame shooting out the side of the O'Learys' barn. (Where the fire started)
~ Jim Murphy
Hope is a flicker, a candle flame kept burning by the simple act of breathing.
~ Joan Clark
But love was like a candle, he had told her once. No matter how many candles you light from the first candle, the flame never goes smaller unless the wick is faulty.
~ Ann H. Gabhart
It was nearly midnight, and the stillness that reigned was rather soothed than interrupted by the gentle dashing of the waters of the bay below, and by the hollow murmurs of Vesuvius, which threw up, at intervals, its sudden flame on the horizon, and then left it to darkness.
~ Ann Radcliffe
You're breathtakingly exciting. You've turned my nights to fire. You've lit my whole world with flame.
~ Anna Campbell
Wife of Brain don't say you weren't expecting a volcano those red wings that not even bad love can tame must signify something's somewhere about to go up in flame or (as Proust says) be eternalized in pleasure like the men in a Pompeian house of ill fate yet fame is not ill for all
~ Anne Carson
Drummer, beat, and piper, blow Harper, strike, and soldier, go Free the flame and sear the grasses Til the dawning Red Star passes
~ Anne McCaffrey
I burn the way money burns.
~ Anne Sexton
Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged.
~ John Glover