Quotes About Flame

For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.

A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth

The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze.

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

We shall have made such a blaze that men will remember us on the other side or the dark.

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word he hath spoken, / Wrought flame in another man's heart.

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for life, great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected precious pyres, and to burn like Sardanapalus , but the wisedom of funerall Law found the folly of prodigall blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be so mean as not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an Urne.

Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead.

Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form--no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing... The body, sluggish, aged , cold--the embers left from early fires, ...shall duly flame again

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us. —Sir Thomas Browne

high. The stone around his neck flamed

Was that the point about scattering ashes: that in the end they looked the same? Not just the snout and the tail, but a dog's ashes and a man's ashes. All reducible, with the addition of a little flame, to this mottled dust?

Agnosco veteris vestigia flammae.

her fire whose flame never dies

My spine is soft like wax near the flame of the candle. I dream; I dream.

Youth, youth- something savage- something pedantic. For example there is Mr. Masefield, there is Mr. Bennett. Stuff them into the flame of Marlowe and burn them to cinders. Let not a shred remain. Don't palter with the second rate. Detest your own age. Build a better one.

I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

No spark, no boom.

Sufism is the flame at the core of the world's religions, it is not religious dogma. Sufism is a sacred fountain from which Islam flowed.

For if there is ever a moment when we are most vulnerable, it's when we're closest to the idea of the attained desire, and thus farthest from ourselves, which is when we'll tread through any flame.

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

The animal is not afraid of the flame, but of the heat it emanates. (L'animal n'a peur de la flamme, - Mais de la chaleur qu'elle émane.)