Burned Quotes

658 Burned quotes by 509 unique authors

the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the… — Charles Bukowski
Most unmarried Somali girls who got pregnant committed suicide. I knew of one girl in Mogadishu who poured a can of gasoline over herself in… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. — Daniel J. Boorstin
Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar. — John Steinbeck
Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when… — Arundhati Roy
This world,' she said. 'Do you really like it?' What a question! Farid never asked himself such things. He was glad to be with Dustfinger… — Cornelia Funke
You signed no contract to become a parent, but the responsibilities were written in invisible ink. There was a point when you had to support… — Jodi Picoult
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left… — Patrick Rothfuss
As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned. — Robert Graves
Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied. — Gregory Galloway
When gods die, they die hard. It's not like they fade away, or grow old, or fall asleep. They die in fire and pain, and… — Gary D. Schmidt
For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past… — Marya Hornbacher
Suddenly I realize that this is what I've been waiting for - a man who depends entirely on me... I dreamed for years of a… — Jodi Picoult
I..." He struggled to answer. "When everything was quiet, I went up to the corridor and the curtain in the livingroom was open just a… — Markus Zusak
Some men go a lifetime and never have their kid blow up a car, but I have a daughter who's knocked off three cars and… — Janet Evanovich
His own voice was older than he was. Ancient, unearthed from some mystical subterranean place...The voice seemed to make his whole body ache. Maybe it… — Francesca Lia Block
They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into… — Toni Morrison
Quietly they moved down the calm and sacred river that had come down to earth so that its waters might flow over the ashes of… — Vikram Seth
They have no idea that it can be done by a bus driver, a field hand, or a fry cook. They have no idea where… — Charles Bukowski
Winter looked at Leven. Leven looked right back at her. Winter's cheeks burned red and her green eyes outshone Leven's. The two of them stared… — Obert Skye
You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because… — Rebecca Solnit
Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his… — Stuart Hill
We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as… — Alice Hoffman
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned… — Anthony Trollope
Let’s think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world…Try walking around with a child who’s going, ‘Wow, wow! Look at… — Anne Lamott

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