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Quotes About Burning

To be frank with you, Melchior, I have almost the same feeling since I read your explanation.——It fell at my feet during the first vacation days. I was startled. I fastened the door and flew through the flaming lines as a frightened owl flies through a burning wood——I believe I read most of it with my eyes shut.
~ Frank Wedekind
I read your explanation.——It fell at my feet during the first vacation days. I was startled. I fastened the door and flew through the flaming lines as a frightened owl flies through a burning wood——I believe I read most of it with my eyes shut.
~ Frank Wedekind
When he turned his attention inward, Cole could feel his power burning bright.
~ Brandon Mull
Es una tradición de lo más divertida. -La quema de brujas también lo era -replicó Melody-. A menos que fueras una bruja.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Perhaps." The king of Heralds offered no further explanation. "And Taln?" Kalak asked. The flesh burning. The fires. The pain over and over and over…
~ Brandon Sanderson
The scents, unfortunately, did not go away with the light. And they remained a signal, defiant as any banner, of what had happened here. Blood. The stench of burning bodies. In the end, loss and victory smelled the same.
~ Brandon Sanderson
IT TOOK THREE days to burn his private papers, so the legend has it.
~ Brenda Niall
One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.
~ Brennan Manning
I had moment of ecstasy and I sang with burning sparks. I sang of the Equator, her red-feathered legs and the islands dropping out of sight. But nobody heard.
~ Henry Miller
I just think it's really upsetting when you see a community just go out and burn down stores and trash cars.
~ Paul Pierce
In my heart, a live fireLike the morning sun Burning my mind, to purify the soulThat is my love.
~ Debasish Mridha
In my dream a burning desireLike the lights from a diamondMake my life ever precious That is my love.
~ Debasish Mridha
But at the same time, any mention of the history of Quebec rouses burning anti-British and anti-American outrage in a French person's heart, as if someone was talking about a favourite café of theirs that had been turned into a Starbucks. Canada
~ Stephen Clarke
When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.
~ Stephen Vincent Benet
There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.
~ Gavin DeGraw
Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
~ Adolf Galland
El que puede decir cómo es su ardor, arde con un fuego pequeño.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?
~ Victor Hugo
Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood. He lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion. I
~ Bram Stoker
Fire has no form of its own, but clings to the burning object. Light clings to darkness. —Cogitor philosophy
~ Brian Herbert
There is my father sun! You see now only by his wish; yet try to see into him and he will darken your eyes for ever. With hot burning he pulls up the corn and we will feed. With cold burning he shrinks it and we starve. These are his burning and our life. Do not speak to me of your god. He is nowhere.
~ Brian Keenan
and this passion, like bad kerosene, barely burns.
~ César Vallejo
Two hundred years before, in the days of the Tudors, Bloody Queen Mary had used the conveniently open space to burn Protestants to save their souls, and her sister, Elizabeth, had in turn used it to burn an even greater number of Catholics, because that's what royals did with people they hated.
~ C.S. Harris