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Quotes About Flame

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
~ Hal Borland
The secret heart is fair devotion's temple; there the saint, even on that living altar, lights the flame of purest sacrifice, which burns unseen, not unaccepted.
~ Hannah More
Love is like the fire; its glow is devotion, its flame is wisdom, its smoke is attachment, and its ashes detachment. Flame rises from glow, so it is with wisdom, which rises from devotion. When love's fire produces its flame it illuminates the devotee's path in life like a torch, and all darkness vanishes.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Campfires and birthday candles don't burn forever.
~ Heather Lende
The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.
~ Leigh Hunt
Vertical Flame Diversion—
~ Lemony Snicket
To love is to burn, to be on fire.
~ Jane Austen
My freckles felt like they would burst into flame.
~ Janet Fitch
I Wish I Could Give You A Taste Of The Burning Fire Of Love. There Is A Fire Blazing Inside Of Me. If I Cry About It, Or If I Don't, The Fire Is At Work, Night And Day.
~ Rumi
I don't want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.
~ Jennifer Egan
What is that curling flower of wonder As white as snow, as red as blood? When Death goes by in flame and thunder And rips the beauty from the bud.
~ Tim Pat Coogan
Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue
~ Tobsha Learner
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
~ Ovid
His nature had developed like a flower, had borne blossoms of scarlet flame. Out of its secret hiding-place had crept his Soul, and Desire had come to meet it on the way.
~ Oscar Wilde
Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs;
~ Oscar Wilde
yo me abraso, y el amor reina en mi corazón deshabitado.
~ Ovidio Publio Nasone
The light wraps you in its mortal flame. Abstracted pale mourner, standing that way Against the old propellers of the twilight That revolves around you. Speechless, my friend, Alone in the loneliness of this hour of the dead And filled with the lives of fire, Pure heir of the ruined day.
~ Pablo Neruda
Love is a fire that feeds our life.
~ Pablo Neruda
We age inevitably: The old joys fade and are gone: And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.
~ James Oppenheim
As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Nothing is lost in history: sooner or later every creative idea finds opportunity and development, and adds its color to the flame of life.
~ Will Durant
life means for us constantly to transform into light and flame all that we are or meet with";1
~ Will Durant
Love is that flame which, when it blazes up, consumes everything else but the Beloved (V, 588).
~ William C. Chittick
If it could just be a hell beyond that: the clean flame the two of us more than dead. Then you will have only me then only me then the two of us amid the pointing and the horror beyond the clean flame… Only you and me amid the pointing and the horror walled by the clean flame.
~ William Faulkner