Quotes About Burning

Did not our heart burn within us while He talked with us on the road, and while He opened the Scriptures to us? – Luke 24:32

Those who converted were forced to prove it by making an animal sacrifice, and soon the skies over Egypt were filled with the smoke from burning ewes and calves, bulls and pigs and goats.

One burns the dead while the other burns the living.

Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within Samsara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty.

Eco ardiente (Echo Burning)

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

burning with curiosity

You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies.

Sometimes I think rage is like a furnace, and I've been angry for so many years now, I'm perpetually heated from the inside out.

To rush headlong into the comforting darkness of selfhood as a reborn human being, or even as beast, an unhappy ghost, a denizen of hell. Anything rather than the burning brightness of unmitigated Reality.

it was as hot as the nails in the planks on the bottom floor of Dante's hell.

The dead had chosen to confess their heresy and in return received the mercy of garroting before their burning. Beneath them, piles of kindling and logs fueled great bonfires that engulfed them and even reached the crosses atop each stake.

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!

My life burned inside me. Even such as it was, it was the only record of me, and it was my only creation, and something in me would not accept that it was insignificant.

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.

Smudge stood atop the water, burning as hot as I'd ever seen him and floating on a cushion of steam like a tiny, pissed-off hovercraft.

Hope is a flicker, a candle flame kept burning by the simple act of breathing.

Her marble tears run down her marble face. A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief. Who has no words to say. Whose shadow mind is burning as he sits watching her hands and thinks how rare! to see a Roman talk with no gestures at all.

God's pity! How long will it feel like burning?

How long will it feel like burning, said the child trying to be kind.

What's it like to wear an eternal Olympian overall held up by the burning straps of mortal shortfall?

I burn the way money burns.

I burn like money burns.