Burns Quotes

538 quotes by 473 authors

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection. — Richard Bach
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or… — Henry Ward Beecher
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. — Nikolai Berdyaev
The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon. — Felix Adler
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. — Victor Borge
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and… — Phillips Brooks
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. — William Allingham
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. — Maya Angelou
There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body, and if there… — Sukarno
It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears the soul. — Bobby Jones
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers… — Jean Batten
Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks, trailing from the… — Pablo Neruda
A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away. — Tennessee Williams
I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you. — Tennessee Williams
Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear. — William Shakespeare
See with what entire freedom the whaleman takes his handful of lamps-often but old bottles and vials, though. ... He burns, too, the purest of… — Herman Melville
Love is that flame that once kindled burns everything, and only the mystery and the journey remain. — Rumi
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt several times. This… — Bertrand Russell
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky.… — Seneca the Younger
LIGHT FROM WITHIN my friend, cancer got you damn it: you had it beat for seven years at least. how did it come back? Why… — Wallace Stevens

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