Burning Quote by Cormac McCarthy

The lamp sizzled as it burned. It made everything seem close and safe, a little family circle they all knew and trusted. Outside this…

— Tove Jansson

I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against…

— Anonymous

Their time past, pulled down cracked and flung to the fire Mgo up in a roar All recognition lost, burnt clean clean in the…

— William Carlos Williams

...and the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame…

— Charles Baudelaire

The pines were roaring on the height, The wind was moaning in the night. The fire was red, it flaming spread; The trees like…

— JRR Tolkien

The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a…

— Donna Tartt

“Above, the stars were unwinking, also constant. Suns and worlds by the million. Dizzying constellations, cold fire in every primary hue. As he watched,…

— Stephen King

Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would…

— Brandon Sanderson

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

— Martin Puryear

The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

— Markus Zusak

Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all…

— John of the Cross

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.

— Faith Baldwin