Flame Quotes
778 quotes by 607 authors
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A cold supper, were you thinking? I asked dubiously. I was not, he said firmly, I mean to light a roaring fire in the kitchen…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.
— Thomas Browne
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Moth to a flame I follow.
— Karen Marie Moning
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Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make…
— Oscar Wilde
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Beckendorf closed eyes tight and brought his hand up to his watch. from that distance, the explosion shook the world. Heat seared the back of…
— Rick Riordan
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Soon,†said the crackling voice of the flame, coming from behind him, “they will fall. Soon they will fall and the star people will meet…
— Neil Gaiman
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One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When he'd been younger,…
— George R. R. Martin
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You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon…
— Thomas Hardy
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I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now…
— Daniel H. Wilson
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Those who direct the maximum force of their desires towards the center, toward the true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because…
— Hermann Hesse
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The next thing Jordana says makes me realize that it's too late to save her. "I've noticed that when you light a match, the flame…
— Joe Dunthorne
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In the Sapient tongue he said softly, ‘Tell me, Master, did you know Incarceron was tiny?’ ‘Is it?’ Sapphique replied in the same language, his…
— Catherine Fisher
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I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as…
— Bryce Courtenay
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One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.
— Honore de Balzac
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...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
— Thomas Paine
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The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.
— Anais Nin
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A stray fact: insects are not drawn to candle flames, they are drawn to the light on the far side of the flame, they go…
— Michael Cunningham
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for we women are not only the deities of the household fire, but the flame of the soul itself.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Sword, I name thee Brisingr! And with a sound of rushing wind the blade burst into flame, an envelope of sapphire-blue fire writhing about the…
— Christopher Paolini
Who Wrote These Flame Quotes
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