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Quotes About Fire

It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
~ Kate Chopin
We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth our hearts were touched with fire.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.
~ Sun Tzu, The Art of War
And if we burn, you burn with us.
~ Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Swifts, flushed from chimneys, catch fire and swoop like blown sparks out over the ramparts and extinguish themselves in the sea.
~ Anthony Duerr
A husband is like a fire. He goes out when unattended.
~ Evan Esar
Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.
~ William Shakespeare
Within the heart of every person exists the flame of wisdom that transforms all suffering into kindling for the fire of creative energy.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
There are, O monks, these four lights. What four? The light of the moon, the light of the sun, the light of fire, and the light of wisdom. Of these four lights, the light of wisdom is supreme.
~ Gautama Buddha
Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark.
~ Plato
Where there is fire, or in water or on ground which is strewn with dry leaves, where there are many ant-hills, where there are wild animals, or danger, where four streets meet, where there is too much noise, where there are many wicked persons, Yoga must not be practised.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Who then devised the torment? Love.Love is the unfamiliar NameBehind the hands that woveThe intolerable shirt of flameWhich human power cannot remove.We only live, only suspireConsumed by either fire or fire.
~ T. S. Eliot
A condition of complete simplicity(Costing not less than everything)And all shall be well andAll manner of thing shall be wellWhen the tongues of flame are infoldedInto the crowned knot of fireAnd the fire and the rose are one.
~ T. S. Eliot
Tangaloor, fire-bright Flame-foot, farthest walker Your hunter speaks In need he walks In need, but never in fear.
~ Tad Williams
Even if the water becomes hot water, it will quench the fire.
~ Tamil proverb
I laid a hand on his cheek; it was so bright that for a second I thought it was burning me, a pure painless fire.
~ Tana French
Though we come and go, and pass into the shadows, where we leave behind us stories told — on paper, on the wings of butterflies, on the wind, on the hearts of others — there we are remembered, there we work magic and great change — passing on the fire like a torch — forever and forever. Till the sky falls, and all things are flawless and need no words at all.
~ Tanith Lee
Who can ever hold the essence of fire? Who can ever know the alchemy of desire?
~ Tarun J. Tejpal
Christmas and ghosts have a long association, and one that may have its roots in Britain rather than the Continent. Families and friends would gather around the fire on Christmas Eve after tiring of charades and other games and start the serious business of the evening: telling creepy stories as gaslights cast long shadows in a dark room.
~ Tasha Alexander
against the backdrop of his famous ghost story. Christmas and ghosts have a long association, and one that may have its roots in Britain rather than the Continent. Families and friends would gather around the fire on Christmas Eve after tiring of charades and other games and start the serious business of the evening: telling creepy stories as gaslights cast long shadows in a dark room.
~ Tasha Alexander
Celestial was mad, and it turned me on a little, like the click on the stove before the flame took.
~ Tayari Jones
Never forget the essence of your spark!
~ Taylor Swift
The book-lined room was redolent of beeswax and old leather books, spilt whiskey on ancient woolen carpets, and whiffs of woodsmoke from fires long gone cold.
~ Ted Bell
infernal fire, grief burns but does not consume; instead, it makes the heart vulnerable to further suffering.
~ Ted Chiang