Burning Quotes

1238 Burning quotes by 956 unique authors

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs; Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving… — William Shakespeare
One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish. — William Shakespeare
How does it taste?” Carter wondered. Zia smiled. “Stick out your tongue.” To answer Carter’s question, the tattoo tasted like burning car tires. “Ugh.” I… — Rick Riordan
Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm. “Hang on. What about traps?” He frowned. “Traps?” “Didn’t Egyptian tombs have traps?” “Well…sometimes. But… — Rick Riordan
We’re burning,” Sadie pointed out helpfully. “Noticed!” I yelled back. — Rick Riordan
The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense.… — John Fowles
In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother. — Edgar Allan Poe
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level,… — Joseph Campbell
In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often… — Christopher Hitchens
It's just like John Mayer says in "Slow Dancing in a Burning Room". When it's this bad, you have to get out or you'll get… — Susane Colasanti
But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on the other side of the island while love was… — Jack Gilbert
That moment she was mine, mine, fair, Perfectly pure and good: I found A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow… — Robert Browning
I'm screwed up, mixed up, messed around, dive-bombing, crashing and burning. — Jaclyn Moriarty
And then it hit me. One of those evil thoughts siblings get because, well, that's what we do. Looking over my shoulder I said, "You… — Jennifer Rardin
Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have… — George W. Bush
Love doesna always mean burning flashes o' passion. Sometimes, it's jus' the warmth o' yer hearts as they beat yer day together." ~Old Woman Nora… — Karen Hawkins
Rome is burning, Jesus says. Drop your fiddle, change your life and come to Me. Let go of the good days that never were -… — Brennan Manning
Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete… — William S. Burroughs
Wow. What'd he do to deserve that? Rescue orphans from a burning building? If so, you might want to make sure he didn't set the… — Richelle Mead
He had the innate sense that something bad was just around the bend, but a hope that something incredible was waiting in the distance. It… — Lauren Kate
I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in Heaven--serried ranks of… — Terry Pratchett
like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching… — Naomi Shihab Nye
The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all. — Vincent Van Gogh
This is the first kiss that we're both fully aware of. Neither of us hobbled by sickness or pain or simply unconscious. Our lips neither… — Suzanne Collins
I have in this War a burning private grudge—which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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