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Quotes About Burning

Terror was a fire that held you trapped in the top floor of a burning building; the only way to escape it was to jump.
~ Joe Hill
I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
~ Tennessee Williams
We burned not a home, but a symbol. We burned a symbol to the ground.
~ E. Lockhart
What a lovely way to burn.
~ E. Lockhart
Dr. Sarvis with his bald mottled dome and savage visage, grim and noble as Sibelius, was out night-riding on a routine neighborhood beautification project, burning billboards along the highway—U.S. 66
~ Edward Abbey
Behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
~ Anonymous
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned.
~ Anonymous
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
~ Anonymous
Werner can feel the fever flickering inside him, a stove with
~ Anthony Doerr
The fires pool and strut; they flow up the sides of the ramparts like tides; they splash into alleys, over rooftops, through a carpark. Smoke chases dust; ash chases smoke. A newsstand floats, burning.
~ Anthony Doerr
All of it is burning. Every memory he ever made.
~ Anthony Doerr
Have I told you kids what Aethon means?" They shake their heads; he writes ????? across an entire sheet of paper. "Blazing," he says. "Burning, fiery. Some say it can mean hungry too.
~ Anthony Doerr
It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.
~ James Hansen
And again he remembered the vision of fanatic legions following the green and black banner of the Atreides, pillaging and burning across the universe in the name of their prophet Muad'Dib. That must not happen, he told himself.
~ Frank Herbert
Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
~ Roland Barthes
Lords of melody and song, Lords of roses burning bright, Blue will right the ancient wrong, Though the way is dark and long, Blue will shine with loving light.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Their house was dying, only an agony went there now. And leaving the burning dream Yvonne felt herself suddenly gathered upwards and borne towards the stars, through eddies of stars scattering aloft with ever wider circlings like rings on water, among which now appeared, like a flock of diamond birds flying softly and steadily towards Orion, the Pleiades …
~ Malcolm Lowry
He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt.
~ Anais Nin
Tonight I am all in flames.
~ Anais Nin
How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.
~ Anais Nin
cehennem kavram? -yan?klar?n verdiÄŸi ac?dan olduÄŸu ölçüde- ateÅŸi ve her ÅŸeyi yutan, kül eden bir ÅŸey olarak görmelerinden doÄŸmuÅŸtur.
~ John Berger
So somebody has talent? So what? Dime a dozen. And we're overpopulated. Actually we have more food than we have people and more art. We've gotten to the point of burning food. When will we begin to burn our art?
~ John Cage
Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Steadfast a lamp burns sheltered from the wind; Such is the likeness of the Yogi's mind Shut from sense-storms and burning bright to Heaven.
~ Edwin Arnold