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Quotes About Fire

She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
~ Jack London
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
~ Abraham Cahan
The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.
~ Basil W. Maturin
My grandfather was a giant of a man ... When he walked, the earth shook. When he laughed, the birds fell out of the trees. His hair caught fire from the sun. His eyes were patches of sky.
~ Eth Clifford
The night I was born, my great uncle Moanea, the village forester, shot a wolf. The villagers roasted it in the fire and fed the meat to the dogs.
~ Teodor Flonta
I feel my body, my mind, weighted down — all is heavy — but my blood, my inner fire, my passion, the little unburdened kid in me, patiently waits to burst free. Some of us die never having burst.
~ Terri Guillemets
Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.
~ Terry Brooks
Visions of the entire Krusty Krab burning to the ground flashed through SpongeBob's fevered brain. If SpongeBob
~ Terry Collins
for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly
~ Terry James
Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
~ Terry Pratchett
Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
~ Terry Pratchett
I longed to be able to gather my whole life-force into a single impulse, and transmit it to her and blow into her frozen remains the fire that was consuming me.
~ Theophile Gautier
How can a heart given up to human affections be closely united to God? It seems to me that it is impossible. I have seen so many souls, allured by this false light, fly right into it like poor moths, and burn their wings, and then return, wounded, to Our Lord, the Divine fire which burns and does not consume.
~ Thérèse de Lisieux
IN order that Love may be fully satisfied it must needs stoop to very nothingness and transform that nothing into fire.
~ Thérèse de Lisieux
We are not as yet in our true country, and as gold is tired in the fire so must our souls be purified by temptation.
~ Thérèse de Lisieux
There is no fire like passion; there is no shark like hatred; there is no snare like folly; there is no torrent like greed.
~ The Dhammapada
Oh you gotta fire and it's burnin' in the rain. Thought that it went out, but it's burnin' just the same. And you don't look back, not for anything. 'Cause love someone, love them all the same. If you LOVE someone, love them all the same.
~ The Fray
My deepest fear is not that we are incompatible, My deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure of fire and fuel. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. You're playing big will not serve the world, me being prideful did not serve me. KB
~ the omani shed
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.
~ Theodore Parker
Brooding on God, I may become a man.Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire;What burns me now? Desire, desire, desire.
~ Theodore Roethke
Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire
~ Theodore Roethke
Through the screen was a carved oak door, a door that, barring a tornado or fire, would outlast the house.
~ Theresa Weir
And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar
~ Thom Yorke
Reply to Objection 1: Cherubim is interpreted "fulness of knowledge," while "Seraphim" means "those who are on fire," or "who set on fire.
~ Thomas Aquinas