Quotes About Burns

Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

Time burns but leaves no ashes.

Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.

And now that Reason's light returns, New sorrow in his spirit burns.

There's a fire that burns fast the more fuel goes on it and that's shiftlessness," Violet said stoutly. "Lois is a shiftless woman and money is just so much fuel to her fire.

He managed to get the loan of a copy of Burns—better meat for a strong spirit than the poetry of Byron or even Scott.

Divine Fire The fire of God, which is His essential being, His love, His creative power, is a fire unlike its earthly symbol in this, that it is only at a distance it burns—that the further from Him, it burns the worse.

Theatre has no memory, which makes it the most existential of the arts... I keep coming back in the hope that someone in a darkened room somewhere will show me an image that burns itself into my mind

Society is in this respect like a fire-the wise man warming himself at a proper distance from it; not coming too close, like the fool, who, on getting scorched, runs away and shivers in solitude, loud in his complaint that the fire burns.

Cambridge produces martyrs and Oxford burns them.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

So, what, you got cigarette burns, too?" Gitanes said. Chip showed his palm, "It's nothing." "Self-inflicted. You pathetic American." "Different kind of prison" Chip said.

But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.

With this life I give you hope. As long as hope burns in your heart, it will burn in the hearts of your Clanmates.

I like to have straight-up black coffee, but when you get it, sometimes you'll burn your tongue, or it spills on your hands, and you get third degree burns. I happen to be the kind of human being who doesn't want to sue coffee companies for money, so I just say, 'Hey, can you give me some coffee, but can you also give me like, eight ice cubes.'

Had to be here to understand," he had said. He'd meant here in Chicago; but he could also have meant here in my shoes, an older black man who still burns from a lifetime of insults, of foiled ambitions, of ambitions abandoned before they've been tried. I asked myself if I could truly understand that. I assumed, took for granted, that I could. Seeing me, these men had made the same assumption.

Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.

Profonde est la haine qui brûle contre la beauté dans les cœurs abjects.

One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns.

Love is that flame that once kindled burns everything, and only the mystery and the journey remain.

It never leaves, not with someone we love. Their presence burns too vivid in our memories. Happen that is as it should be, for otherwise we would too easy forget.

Love--that divine fire which was made to light and warm the temple of home--sometimes burns at unholy altars.

Little poppies, little hell flames, Do you do no harm? You flicker. I cannot touch you. I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.

You flicker. I cannot touch you. I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns-