Flame Quotes
778 quotes by 584 authors
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The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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It was the kind of pure, undiffused light that can only come from a really hot blue sky, the kind that makes even a concrete…
— Bill Bryson
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Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze burning with too…
— Cornelia Funke
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...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children…
— Sherman Alexie
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I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I am bound…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken…
— William Carlos Williams
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I was only kidding about the hundred," she says. oh," I say, "what will it cost me?" she lights her cigarette with my lighter and…
— Charles Bukowski
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I-I am going to be a storm-a flame- I need to fight whole armies alone; I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms; I…
— Edmond Rostand
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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
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Be the flame, not the moth.
— Giacomo Casanova
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Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Life is like a flame that is always burning itself out...
— George Bernard Shaw
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We sit there, our eyes locked on one another, for several seconds. I know in my heart we're both thinking the same thing. Jacob leans…
— Laurie Faria Stolarz
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It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip saying, "NO SURVIVORS,…
— William Goldman
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Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?
— Joyce Carol Oates
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If diversity is a source of wonder, its opposite - the ubiquitous condensation to some blandly amorphous and singulary generic modern culture that takes for…
— Wade Davis
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we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the…
— Salman Rushdie
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I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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A rose by any other name Would get the blame For being what it is-- The colour of a kiss, The shadow of a flame.…
— Tanith Lee
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Then he heard a terrible cry that pulled at his insides, that expressed agony of a kind that neither flame nor curse could cause, and…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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