Top 100 Flame Quotes
#1. So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death.
Lord Byron
#2. Everyone has got something to gift. Your gift lies in the flame of your soul.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#3. Every day life is being conceived somewhere. Every day someone is carrying a child. Every day someone is giving birth to a child. Every day children are coming under the influences of the world. So all these events we can pray for daily. And we can be a Keeper of the Flame with the Maha Chohan
Elizabeth Clare Prophet
#4. The day Love was illumined,
Lovers learned from You how to burn, Beloved.
The flame was set by the Friend
to give the moth a gate to enter.
Love is a gift from the Beloved to the Lover.
Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir
#5. Courage is the decision to fly straight into the flame while knowing the consequences.
J.V. Hart
#6. Anarchy is like custard cooking over a flame; it has to be constantly stirred or it sticks and gets heavy, like government.
Tom Robbins
#7. Could've come like a mighty storm. With all the strength of a hurricane. You could've come like a forest fire with the power of Heaven in Your flame. But You came like a winter snow, quiet and soft and slow. Falling from the sky in the night to the earth below.
Chris Tomlin
#8. The prose-poems of the Japji envelop us by opening our third eye to the experience of concrete manifestations of nature, the overall circle of light, which shone in the nimbus, which people saw around Nanak's face, lit up by the shimmering glow of the flame which burnt inside him. It
Khushwant Singh
#9. The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages but the same flame burns in them all. Oh, if you only knew what unearthly happiness my soul feels now from being able to understand them.
Anton Chekhov
#10. Revelation may not need the help of reason, but man does, even when in possession of revelation. Reason may be described as the candle in the man's hand, to which revelation brings the necessary flame.
William Gilmore Simms
#11. I'd rather burn in a better kind of flame.
Claudia Gray
#12. One sin, I know, another doth provoke.
Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.
William Shakespeare
#13. A spark of divinity ignited a flame of fire within our spirit, our soul and our hearts.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#14. She may be an old flame, but she still smokin'.
Lois Greiman
#15. Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.
Elton John
#16. The pinpoint flame of anger and grief becomes a hot needle, then a hot knife.
It melts the frost that binds her lips.
It melts the sea in her eyesss.
(from uncorrected galley)
Katherine Catmull
#17. The night life draws me in like a moth to a flame and not even fear could convince me to not walk amongst the giants that line the streets.
Z.L. Arkadie
#18. Bursting into flame would definitely blow my cover.
Rob Thomas
#19. We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
Victor Hugo
#20. To love God means to surrender, to trust, to be ready to die into Him, because dying in God is the beginning of a new life; it is resurrection. Love has to become such an intense flame that it bums you out, that you are not left behind, that you are consumed in it. If you are not, the Guest comes.
Rajneesh
#21. If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.
Francois Mauriac
#22. Bercelak's kin kept themselves busy by sharpening weapons, reading, talking, or setting things on fire with small bursts of flame.
G.A. Aiken
#23. I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea!
We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee;
And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky,
Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.
William Butler Yeats
#24. We age inevitably:
The old joys fade and are gone:
And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.
James Oppenheim
#25. Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.
Paulo Coelho
#27. I have been baptized twice, once in water, once in flame. I will carry the fire of the holy spirit inside until I stand before my Lord for judgement.
Joshua
#28. From one small spark a bushfire grows.
Sellers of misery are our foes.
Merging ruthlessly tongues of flame.
Point your finger at those to blame.
Paul Anthony
#29. Helena dreamed about the keepers of the fire. The poorest old women had stored it away in suburban kitchens and had only to blow very gently on their palms to rekindle the flame
Eduardo Galeano
#30. Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws himself into the purest flame.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#31. Wisdom requires no form; her beauty must vary, as varies the beauty of flame. She is no motionless goddess, for ever couched on her throne.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#32. Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.
Thomas A Kempis
#33. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#34. Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;
It is the reflex of our earthly frame,
That takes its meaning from the nobler part,
And but translates the language of the heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#35. O Youth! flame earnest, still aspire, With energies immortal! To many a heaven of Desire, Our yearning opes a portal! And tho' Age wearies by the way, And hearts break in the furrow, We'll sow the golden grain Today
The Harvest comes tomorrow.
Gerald Massey
#36. ...a single tongue of flame shooting out the side of the O'Learys' barn.
(Where the fire started)
Jim Murphy
#37. The garden was burning, the air sparked with specks of flame as they say it will be in the World-to-Come when we walk beside the angels and have no fear of their illuminations or of their might.
Alice Hoffman
#38. You're an everlasting flame that can't be put out.
Romina Russell
#39. Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive.
Jean Jaures
#40. The world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can
the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn't even flicker.
Frederick Buechner
#41. O gentle son, / Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience.
William Shakespeare
#42. But as the late socialist politician Tony Benn would often put it, social change is a combination of two things: 'the burning flame of anger at injustice, and the burning flame of hope for a better world'.
Owen Jones
#44. I watch, nearly shaking with the need to say something and having nothing to say, as she lets a flame incinerate the precious paper to a dusting of ash on the floor.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
#45. I know of a world that is sunk in shame, Where hearts oft faint and tire; But I know of a Name, a precious Name, That can set that world on fire: Its sound is sweet, its letters flame. I know of a Name, a precious Name, 'Tis Jesus.
J. Chapman
#46. And love is a toxic flame that makes
the roads weird and bloody.
Anna Margolin
#48. But, in the end, we editors just pass through. We all know that you, the readers, are the real carriers of the flame.
Alan Rusbridger
#49. Maybe, if God is fire, we are a grove of ponderosa pines. Without the heat and burn of God's flame, our pinecones would remain closed tight around the seeds that are needed for our thriving and growth and new life.
Lauren F. Winner
#50. The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation.
Anais Nin
#51. He 's gone, and who knows how he may report Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
John Milton
#52. Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.
Neal Shusterman
#53. Month by month things are losing their hardness; even my body now lets the light through; my spine is soft like wax near the flame of the candle. I dream; I dream.
Virginia Woolf
#54. 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, Davos had dreamed of making such voyages himself. But the years went dancing by like moths around a flame, and somehow the time had never been quite right.
George R R Martin
#56. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
Albert Schweitzer
#57. The pale whiteness of her upturned face as she choked on the smoke; the tangled length of her hair as she tried to shake the flames from it; the beauty of her cherry-blossom robe as it burst into flame: it was all so cruel, so terrible!
Ryunosuke Akutagawa
#58. Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross.
Katherine Philips
#60. Ruben V is the keeper of the flame of the San Antonio vibe
Joe King
#61. Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.
Rumi
#62. I shall think of you
Whenever I am most happy, whenever I am Most sad, whenever I see a beautiful thing.
You are a burning lamp to me, a flame
The wind cannot blow out, and I shall hold you High in my hand against whatever darkness.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#63. Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyeilding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Song of Solomon 8:6
Elizabeth Hunter
#65. The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.
Theodore Roosevelt
#66. Fire comes in all intensities. A hotter tongue of flame can devour another. Surely the hottest can sear a man clean. - UILLEAM ANDRIU MACRIEVE, CHIEFTAIN OF THE NOVA SCOTIA SETTLEMENT OF CLAN MACRIEVE
Kresley Cole
#67. Am like a Fire Fly, Charged to Execute my Flames to Light this World up, therefore, you have to Kill me to get out my Flame.
Ryan Leonard
#68. I'd like to be remembered as a keeper of the flame who kept traditional music alive, because I've been doing that twice as long as I was in the Byrds.
Roger McGuinn
#69. Zeal
what is it? How shall I describe it? Possess it, and you will know what it is. Be consumed with love for Christ, and let the flame burn continuously, not flaming up at public meetings and dying out in the routine work of every day.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#70. Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.
Calvin Miller
#71. Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
Thomas Hobbes
#72. A man killing himself in the pursuit of his dreams is no different in a moth flying into a flame.
Katherine Pine
#73. Oh, no! my heart can never be
Again in lightest hopes the same;
The love that lingers there for thee
Hath more of ashes than of flame.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#74. If we keep our little flame alive, our first feeling of enthusiasm of who we are, without the influence or intervention of others, we will prevail.
Patti Smith
#75. Each human being must keep alight within him the sacred flame of madness, but behave like a normal person.
Paulo Coelho
#76. Live a life of love, of passion of desire, of free will. Take a chance, take the leap, and jump head first into the abyss. Start a flame in your bonfire
heart, and show the world your passion.
Steven Aitchison
#77. All of us have a dormant spark of divinity in us which has to be fanned into flame by yoga.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#78. The flame and the void are about center," Tam said. "And about peace. I would teach it to each and every person in this land, soldier or not, if I could.
Robert Jordan
#79. The cuties I desire, I be the first to set it on off, flame on like the Human Torch.
Method Man
#80. To get it all done I have to dim my brain, turn it down by notches like the flat-turn knob on a gas lantern, leaving only a nub of flame.
Christina Baker Kline
#81. All her tormentings of me turned suddenly into sweetnesses, and who could torment like this exquisite fury, wondering in sudden flame why she could give herself to anyone, while I wondered only why she could give herself to me. It may be that I wondered over-much. Perhaps that was why I lost her.
J.M. Barrie
#82. I looked around, counting the competition. Sixteen. To win, all I had to do was incapacitate each one, place my hand over their hearts and turn my palm into a flame. Easy.
Yeah right.
Gena Showalter
#83. Hurts you. It is an everlasting pain in you, a wound that does not heal, a knife of flame.
Jack London
#84. Oh, hear Him within you speaking this infinite love,moving like some divine and audible leaven,lifting the sky of the soul with expansions of light, shaping new heights and new depths,and, at your stir of assent,spreading the mountains with flame, filling the hollows with Heaven.
Jessica Powers
#85. Angelique, my dear child, love is not what heals us. Love is what burns us. And in you the flame burns pure and hot.
Anne Golon
#86. But, while she strives to chill Desire,
Her brighter Eyes such warmth inspire,
She checks the Flame, but cannot quench the Fire.
Gerald Bullett
#87. The best way to make a steak is grilled over an open flame or pan sauteed in a cast iron skillet.
Roy Yamaguchi
#88. Gay and costly apparel directly tends to create and influence lust ... The fact is plain and undeniable, it has the effect both on the wearer and beholder. You kindle a flame, which, at the same time consumes both yourself and your admirers ...
John Wesley
#89. It doesn't matter whether you're the one having to douse a flame or helplessly watching it sputter. Either way, it goes out eventually.
Sarah Dessen
#90. Adieu the clang of war's alarms! To other deeds my soul is strung, And sweeter notes shall now be sung; My harp shall all its powers reveal, To tell the tale my heart must feel; Love, Love alone, my lyre shall claim, In songs of bliss and sighs of flame.
Kathleen Baldwin
#91. Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which would never justify weariness, which would reconcile self-despair with the rapturous consciousness of life beyond self.
George Eliot
#92. The god's nostrils flared. One of the grape leaves on his hat burst into flame. "If we know each other from that other camp, it's a wonder I haven't already turned you into a dolphin."
"It was discussed," Percy assured him. "I think you were just too lazy to do it.
Rick Riordan
#93. Tell your mother the Law of Stolen Flight.'
'Only flame, and things with wings. All the rest suffer stings.
Jonathan Carroll
#94. Voltaire lighted a torch and gave to others the sacred flame. The light still shines and will as long as man loves liberty and seeks for truth.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#95. I am going to stand against him now, though his hands are like flame, though his hands are like flame, and his heart like the shining of iron.
Homer
#96. What they had between them was still as fragile as flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed.
Cassandra Clare
#97. Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#98. I want to love you simply, in words not spoken: tinder to the flame which transforms it to ash
I want to love you simply, in signs not expressed: clouds to the rain which make them evanescent (Aku Ingin-I Want)
Sapardi Djoko Damono
#100. The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Nikola Tesla
