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Quotes About Fire

At the end, we receive ashes. They are not condensations of being but a reminder that even fire cannot destroy what has been loved. ––
~ Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi
Five minutes ago I heard a sniper fire: Why did he do it?… Starlight overhead— Blank stars. I'm wide-awake; and some chap's dead.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
Burning my dreams away beside the fire: For death has made me wise and bitter and strong; And I am rich in all that I have lost.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
It was good to lie there in our bags watching the glow of our dying fire and the deeper glow of sunset beyond; but most of all it was good to feel the ground again and to know we were back in a country we loved.
~ Sigurd F. Olson
Surely there is a light in that boy that will never go out, no matter what he has to face along the way. That's all a father can hope for his child, that a little fire will burn in them to keep them going, to keep them strong.
~ Silas House
And if we know how to light a fire, why do we carry tinder around with us?" Because you're humans," the little one explained serenly. "You're stupid.
~ Silvana de Mari
I take it you know my companion?" Oh,yes!" said Savage, his smile disappearing. "We know all about Ruby Journey. Please don't let her kill anyone important. Or set fire to anything." Your reputation precedes you," Random said dryly to Ruby.
~ Simon R. Green
They burn down Satanist churches, perform exorcisms on politicians, and they once crucified a street mime. Upside down. And then they set fire to him. A lot of people applauded.
~ Simon R. Green
Exasperated, Antonov-Ovseenko called the Petrograd Fire Brigade. 'We tried flooding the cellars with water - but the firemen ... got drunk instead.' The Commissars started smashing the bottles in Palace Square, but 'the crowd drank from the gutters. The drunken ecstasy infected the entire city.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
And over Russia I see a quiet Far-spreading fire consume all.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you.
~ Simone Elkeles
Near the snow,near the sun , in the highest field See how those names are feted by the wavering grass, And by the streamers of white cloud, And whispers of wind in the listening sky; The names of those who in their lives have fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's centre. Born of the sun they traveled a short while towrads the sun. And left the vivid air signed with their honour.
~ Sir Stephen Spender
But true love is a durable fire, in the mind ever burning. Never sick, never old, never dead, from itself never turning.
~ Sir Walter Raleigh
Heap on the wood!-the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
~ Sir Walter Scott
You can have children and love them with all your heart and soul, and love your family, and it's still OK to have a fire in you. That doesn't have anything to do with your family.
~ Jennifer Lawrence
Love, a brilliant fire, to gladden or consume.
~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
Love is friendship set on fire. Hate is friendship burned.
~ Jeremy Taylor
Life has two halves: one patient and one afire. Love is the fiery half. Make me, O Lord, food for the flames.
~ Khalil Gibran
Oh god Let all lovers be content Give them happy endings Let their lives be celebrations Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love
~ Rumi
Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.
~ Arthur Symons
Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell
~ Richard Barnfield
When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.
~ Charles Dickens
Absence Is To Love, What The Wind Is To Fire, When It's a Small Fire The Wind Kills It But When It's a Real Fire It Intensifies It
~ Diane von Furstenberg
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? You feel the separation from the Beloved. Invite Him to fill you up, embrace the fire.
~ Rumi