Burnt Quotes
291 quotes by 223 authors
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Art flies around truth, but with the definite intention of not getting burnt. Its capacity lies in finding in the dark void a place where…
— Franz Kafka
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Father’s silence is not merely the absence of sound. It’s a creature with a life of its own. It chokes you. It pinches you small…
— Franny Billingsley
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Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow. Well, perhaps you are right. Perhaps the wise spurn one to remain safe from the…
— Anne Fortier
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This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end
— Heinrich Heine
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A burnt finger remember the fire.
— Alice Walker
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When Rose takes to screaming, she starts loud, continues loud, and ends loud. Rose has a very good ear and always screams on the same…
— Franny Billingsley
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Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end.
— Terry Pratchett
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Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a…
— C.S. Lewis
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Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of…
— William Butler Yeats
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Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back to sleep. The…
— Unknown Author
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Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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and because what we learn in the dark remains all our lives, a noise like the sea, displacing the day's pale knowledge, you'll come to…
— John Burnside
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Yes, of course. I was on her like, um... I believe that old woman last week we took after she'd burnt down her house cooking…
— Abbi Glines
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What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what…
— Anais Nin
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There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.
— Antonio Machado
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He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my…
— Anne Rice
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Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.
— Patrick Ness
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Come on," Alec said, already stomping down the ramp. "Let's find us a squirrel." He swept the weapon back and forth as he walked, looking…
— James Dashner
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