Quotes About Burning
our sun is long and straight, a line of burning gold fencing our lands from the skylands.
~ Gene Wolfe
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Life is like a flame that is always burning itself out...
~ George Bernard Shaw
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Don Juan's supernatural antagonist hurled those who refuse to repent into lakes of burning brimstone, there to be tormented by devils with horns and tails. Of that antagonist, and of that conception of repentance, how much is left that could be used in a play by me dedicated to you?
~ George Bernard Shaw
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while the expression on her pale face and in her burning eyes was what would have suited a woman enduring a wrong which she might not resent, but would probably revenge.
~ George Eliot
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The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.
~ Margaret Walker
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yak?p tüketen ateÅŸler sald?n içime - Çok yaÅŸa! yokluÄŸunda bitmek tükenmek bilmeyen saatlerce yaÅŸa!
~ Sappho
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But a spiritual fever, like a physical fever, actually has a productive function: it burns up disease. Think of your pain as a feverish burning up of fear. As you heal physically, extreme fever can lead to delirium. And as you heal spiritually, your fever can lead to delirium as well—a quiet delirium of the soul. But this too shall pass.
~ Marianne Williamson
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There was a smell of nitric oxides as the air itself started to burn in the beam of the laser torch, and a steady sizzling as the fiery knife sliced towards secrets that had been hidden since the birth of man.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
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She brought herself away from the disagreeably clinging thought by her usual method - imagining the sweet sharp sensation of being burned alive.
~ Shirley Jackson
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when not sentencing priests to be burnt at the stake, Fermat dedicated himself to his hobby.
~ Simon Singh
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What does the anticipation feel like? The sensation of staring into the void, the awareness of an end's impending arrival? Burning and being extinguished simultaneously?
~ Teo Yi Han
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His spear, to equal which the tallest pineHewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mastOf some great ammiral, were but a wand,He walk'd with, to support uneasy stepsOver the burning marle.
~ John Milton
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So when you hold the "Institutes" of John Calvin in your hand, remember that theology, for John Calvin, was forged in the furnace of burning flesh, and that Calvin could not sit idly by without some effort to vindicate the faithful and the God for whom they suffered. I think we would, perhaps, do our theology better today if more were at stake in what we said.
~ John Piper
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Give me peaches like burning clouds. I'll pare those globes until dawn. The syrup will linger on my fingers like your scent. Let me escape my own insistence.
~ Ellen Bass
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But life is not the wax or wick of the candle, it is the burning. It is not the complex nitrates and the carbon compounds in which it sits but their combustion.
~ Baker Brownell
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The halo of light which had emerged from the burning Mustang still lay over the creeks and paddies. For a few minutes the sun had drawn nearer to the earth, as if to scorch the death from the fields.
~ ballard j g iv
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I always said if I played a drag queen, I'd want to create a template with the realness they talk about in 'Paris Is Burning.'
~ Billy Porter
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The [Victory Gin] was like nitric acid, and moreover, in swallowing it one had the sensation of being hit on the back of the head with a rubber club. The next moment, however, the burning in his belly died down and the world began to look more cheerful.
~ George Orwell
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Then held a match to the carpet on the stairs and, once it started burning, raised a finger, like, Quiet, through me runs the power of recent dark experiences.
~ George Saunders
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Entirety exists within me as exuberance … in empty longing … in … the desire to burn with desire.
~ Georges Bataille
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Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
~ Michael Berryman
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I had hoped that I might replace the burning blackness in my mind with the simple, remote darkness of the night sky. Sometimes I could calm myself that way, but tonight the longer I stared at the sky, its untouchable beauty, the more I wanted to hurt someone.
~ Sarah Monette
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No," I said, barely more than a whisper. "Oh, no." But denial made no more difference to the truth than it ever does. Belle Lune was burning.
~ Sarah Monette
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The hall towered, its gables wide and high and awaiting a barbarous burning. That doom abided, but in time it would come
~ Seamus Heaney
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