Immolation's Quotes

#1. Self-immolation's a nice gesture, but it doesn't usually achieve very much.

Tana French

#2. Call it a personal foible. Some people are scared of spiders. I'm scared of immolation. Also spiders.

Mark Lawrence

#3. What possesses them, these young girls with a talent for self-immolation?

Margaret Atwood

#4. Self-defense ... is the only honourable course where there is unreadiness for self-immolation.

Mahatma Gandhi

#5. Anger is self-immolation.

Phillips Brooks

#6. The last three films I've done are about self-immolation.

Claire Forlani

#7. No woman is really humble; she is merely politic. No woman, with a free choice before her, chooses self-immolation; the most she genuinely desires in that direction is a spectacular martyrdom. No woman delights in poverty. No woman yields when she can prevail. No woman is honestly meek.

H.L. Mencken

#8. The archtraitor and madman Shuos Jedao had appeared as a Ninefox Crowned with Eyes, visionary and strategist, but had proved to be an Immolation Fox.

Yoon Ha Lee

#9. Song writing is about the male-female relationship. Yes, there are songs of, of brotherhood and politics but very rarely do we write about computers or, there are car songs, cars are cool. But even in the car songs, it's, ah, usually gets down to me and my baby and my car.

Jeff Barry

#10. I support gun safety measures, and I'll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters, and I went hunting with my dad as a kid, and you know, I have deep respect for the Second Amendment and the culture of our country.

Eric Swalwell

#11. Yet even then the music has still a quality stern and implacable, deliberate and without passion so much as immolation, pleading, asking, for not love, not life, forbidding it to others, demanding in sonorous tones death as though death were the boon, like all Protestant music.

William Faulkner

#12. All religions are cruel, all founded on blood; for all rest principally on the idea of sacrifice - that is, on the perpetual immolation of humanity to the insatiable vengeance of divinity.

Mikhail Bakunin

#13. This is your last chance, Control. But it wasn't. It was, instead, an immolation. If he was remembered at all, it would be as the harbinger of disaster.

Jeff VanderMeer

#14. Serving people is the best way to earn influence.

Jeff Goins

#15. It's just me throwing myself at you,
romance as usual, us times us,
not lust but moxibustion,
a substance burning close
to the body as possible
without risk of immolation.

Alice Fulton

#16. You've been making a regular habit of flinging yourself in front of bullets," she remarked amiably. "It's really not a good custom. Curb this tendency to self-immolation.

Kerry Greenwood

#17. Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.

Gaspard Ulliel

#18. I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.

Edgar Allan Poe

#19. There are many things I want, and the only way I will get them is to keep my head down, listen to the right people and work hard

Thierry Henry

#20. I had not yet learned that one cannot really be superior without humility and tolerance and human understanding. I did not yet know that in order to belong to a rare and higher breed one must first develop the true power and talent of selfless immolation.

Thomas Wolfe

#21. But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted out; enters the darkness of her own body, forgets her name. Immolation is what she wants, however briefly. To exist without boundaries.

Margaret Atwood

#22. The USA and the Soviet Union each had the ability to annihilate the other. Therefore- in theory at least-neither of these growling superpowers would dare attack the other, because to do so would result in its own immolation.

Mal Peet

#23. Out the window in the distance, contradicting the prairie, a mirage of downtown Chicago ascended to a kind of lurid acropolis, its light as if from nightly immolation warped to the red end of the spectrum, smoldering as if always just about to explode into open flames.

Thomas Pynchon

#24. Self-sacrifice is one of a woman's seven deadly sins (along with self-abuse, self-loathing, self-deception, self-pity, self-serving, and self-immolation).

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#25. Every hunchback has his gypsy, each phantom his diva, and flames of passion consume witches and martyrs alike. For any lonely monster, tradition demands that one sacrificial soul seek immolation.
Ashe to ashes.
It remains the ultimate, transformative act of love.

Robert Dunbar