Building Quote by Christopher Alexander

The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“In my biology class, we'd talked about the definition of life: to be classified as a living creature, a thing needs to eat, breathe,…

— Dan Wells

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatied Of dead and living, Not the…

— T. S. Eliot

Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every…

— Eduardo Galeano

“The world,' he revealed, 'is a heap of people, a sea of tiny flames.' Each person shines with his or her own light. No…

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes…

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and…

— Otto Weininger

“We deceive ourselves into thinking life is long, but fire reminds us-it is flickering. Life is a flickering-and then it is gone. So, we…

— Jesse Ball

One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which…

— Blaise Cendrars

We delight in the mere sight of the delicate glow of fading rays clinging to the surface of a dusky wall, there to live…

— Junichiro Tanizaki

A hidden fire burns perpetually upon the hearth of the world.... In autumn this great conflagration becomes especially manifest. Then the flame that is…

— Hugh Macmillan