Top 100 It Burns Quotes
#1. Betrayal is a more subtle, twisted feeling than terror. It burns and eats, but terror stabs right through.
Wendy Hoffman
#2. It had not had much effect, but that was beside the point. "Love is like a flame; it burns itself out eventually," Sabiha had told Selva. "What will you do then?
Ayse Kulin
#3. I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel - everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.
Mary MacLane
#4. I should have remembered that when you play with evil, it burns you in the end.
James Todd Cochrane
#5. Every time I'm near her I want to pour accelerant all over my anger so it burns us both to ash.
Kennedy Ryan
#6. Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.
Mason Cooley
#7. But when I touch you, your aura ... it smolders. The colors deepen, it burns more intensely, the purple increases. Why? Why, Sydney?" He used that hand to pull me closer. "Why do you react that way if I don't mean anything to you?" There was a desperation in his voice, and it was legitimate.
Richelle Mead
#8. Hatred is like fire. It burns the one who harnesses it. It's also extremely hard to see more helpful truths through its flames.
Morgan Rhodes
#10. Knowledge is as powerful as fire. The brighter it burns, the more it devours.
Jessica Cluess
#11. I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.
Mike Tyson
#12. The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun.
Edith Pattou
#13. I don't want to be one of those 'hour' guys who is all bitter about reality TV. It's as viable as any other genre - when it's great, it's great. However! Reality does a certain thing. It burns quickly, brightly, and then it burns out. You can't repeat them.
Tim Minear
#14. I steer away from episodic TV; it burns you out.
Peter Weller
#15. In each of us there is a flame that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it burns within us, we cannot be destroyed.
Bryce Courtenay
#16. To be entranced, to be driven, to be obsessed, to be under the spell of an emerging, not quite fully 'comprehended' narrative
this is the greatest happiness of the writer's life even as it burns us out and exhausts us, unfitting us for the placid contours of 'normality.
Joyce Carol Oates
#17. I've learned when you drink Absolut straight, it burns enough to give my chest hairs a perm.
Method Man
#18. That fire you see can't last. Still, as it burns, it lights everything.
David Kirby
#19. Joy is a great purifier. It burns away many polluted currents trying to reach us.
Torkom Saraydarian
#20. Feelings are just a fire in a field of stubble: it burns for a moment, and then all that's left is soot and ashes. Do you know what the main thing is - the thing a woman should look for in her man? She should look for a quality that's not at all exciting but that's rarer than gold: decency.
Amos Oz
#21. When I look at the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes!
Oprah Winfrey
#22. We do not fear the flame, though it burns us,
We do not fear the fire, though it consumes us,
And we do not fear its light,
Though it reveals the darkness of our souls,
For therein lies our power.
-- Blood Oath of the Iron Elves
Chris Evans
#23. People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#24. Is that not the Promethean fable, that the fire stolen from the gods will light men their way even while it burns their hands?
Zia Haider Rahman
#25. The world is on fire, I thought wildly. See it burn and oh, my God, it burns for us.
T.J. Klune
#26. Love is like a flame; it burns itself out eventually,
Ayse Kulin
#27. This rain doesn't cleanse my skin, nor soothe my battered and broken body. It doesn't hide my tears.
It burns.
Dylan J. Morgan
#28. When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you
Gail Carson Levine
#29. I think there's two kinds of love. One kind of love burns so hot that it burns out before you get a chance to enjoy it. The other love is one that lifts you and makes you better than you were before.
Tara Brown
#30. The business of beauty isn't a natural model;
It's built to be the opposite of the cultures we topple.
These magazines got you caught in a hustle,
Cause when you starve yourself, your body doesn't burn fat, it burns muscles.
Immortal Technique
#31. Your love is blissful, graceful, and divine. When it touches me, it burns me with joy to purify.
Debasish Mridha
#32. Disappointment has a horrible taste - I've never liked it myself - the way it burns on the tongue like sulphur and turns your belly to acid. I
Kelly Gardiner
#33. A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.
Ray Bradbury
#34. Grief is an unfillable hole in your body. It should be weightless, but it's heavy. Should be cold, but it burns. Should, over time, close up, but instead it deepens.
Emily Henry
#35. Master, Master Poet, Master of our silent desires,
The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart,
But it burns not with your song.
Khalil
#36. And all that we built, and all that we breathed And all that we spilled or pulled up like weeds Is piled up in back and it burns irrevocably And we spoke up in turns 'til the silence crept over me.
Joanna Newsom
#37. There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever
the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#38. I can feel the sensation (it burns) of being called crazy when you feel wounded and desperate.
Merri Lisa Johnson
#39. Pain destroys the illusions of false, that is, elitist pleasures. It burns from the inside out. It, therefore, sensitizes us to what is truly beautiful in life.
Matthew Fox
#40. We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.
Alison Sweeney
#42. Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, because it knows the true meaning of sacrifice. It is life illuminated.
Henry Miller
#44. Its like if you take acid, it burns out brain cells and they dont regrow. Rock is like that-it has killed beautiful people musically, physically and mentally.
Marc Bolan
#45. As hope kindles hope, millions more will find it. By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well - a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.
George W. Bush
#46. I remember the fire, it burns bright, always around me. I close my eyes, and tears stream out. The tides of the past seize me, bear me out to sea.
Ned Hayes
#47. Belief is all-important in what we do.
You believe, it burns, flickers and dies. The ashes mix with the soil and we call them memories.
Kieron Gillen
#48. On paper it's perfect.
But the thing about paper is: It burns.
Cat Patrick
#49. Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.
Leonard Cohen
#50. The sun from far gives life. But get close to it and it burns anything down to ashes
Soroosh Shahrivar
#51. But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot; and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.
Jonathan Maberry
#52. I love Christmas tree bulbs, and I started putting them in my paintings. You've got to plug this painting in, and it's got a rig in the back, so that each one can be replaced if it burns out.
David Lynch
#53. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.
Bohumil Hrabal
#54. Cherish your creative spark, because there's no one else who can light it back up for you when it burns out.
Richard P. Denney
#55. It is of eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, and motion to excite it; and it brightens as it burns.
Tacitus
#57. Started as a flicker, meant to be a flame. Skin has gotten thicker, but it burns the same. Still a baby in a cradle, got to take my first fall ... baby's getting next to nowhere with her back against the wall.
Sara Bareilles
#58. Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#59. Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns.
Owen Feltham
#60. Vengeance burns,Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that happen to you.
Michelle Paver
#62. Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away
Solomon
#64. A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds.
Theodore Dreiser
#65. I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron.
Evita Peron
#66. Your body begins to change when it burns and shakes ... so when an exercise is challenging, I always think 'feel your body changing.'
Stacy Keibler
#70. How can you treat death so lightly?" she asks.
"Because it happens," he replies. "It is inevitable. I do not mourn the falling of a leaf or the breaking of a wave. I do not sorrow for a shooting star as it burns itself up in the atmosphere. Why should I?
Roger Zelazny
#71. Talent without craft is like fuel without an engine, it burns wildly but accomplishes nothing.
Robert McKee
#72. Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.
Frederick William Faber
#73. Desperation glares in all Men, but it burns as a beacon when it takes a King for tinder. A
R. Scott Bakker
#74. This man would not kiss me as I like to be kissed but as he does. His way is too hard, demanding, dangerous. His way is not love. It is passion and it burns. Incinerates.
Karen Marie Moning
#75. Some are born brilliant, some have brilliance thrust upon them
and others cower in the dark crying, It burns! It burns!
K.A. Laity
#76. The problem with anger is that once it burns out, you're left with empty tanks.
Craig Johnson
#77. Do not let fear and anger conquer you. You must conquer them. If you don't, you give your enemy all power over you, and you will never overcome him. Anger uncontrolled flames up fast and hot, and even though you direct this fire at your foe, it is you it burns. Hamiel
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#78. A most burning question of time, though. It burns in every nook and cranny of the ethnological world, burning, bright, brightly, in the fullest blaze, and it burns all around, huge fire! and no one lifts a hand.
Adolf Bastian
#79. He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.
Quintus Ennius
#80. Anyone who does not acknowledge the darkness in his nature will succumb to it ... the lamp of conviction needs to be shaded by doubt, or it burns with a blinding light.
Philip Caputo
#81. It's hard to smoke a pipe, and it's actually kind of brutal. It burns your mouth and your throat, and to keep it lit.
Charlie Hunnam
#82. Such madness. When you're 20, love is like a fever. It makes you almost delirious. When it's over, you can hardly remember how it happened. Fire in the blood, how quickly it burns out.
Irene Nemirovsky
#83. The fire is not discriminating. It burns anything in its path for whatever reason.
John Wayne
#84. The mist wishes to have the sun but what does the sun do - it burns so fiercely that the mist disappears.
Sumeetha Manikandan
#85. His lips are so close to my ear I'm water and nothing and everything and melting into a wanting so desperate it burns as I swallow it down.
Tahereh Mafi
#86. When you're twenty, love is like a fever, it makes you almost delirious. When it's over you can hardly remember how it happened ... Fire in the blood, how quickly it burns itself out.
Irene Nemirovsky
#87. But just because it burns doesn't mean you're gonna die. You've gotta get up and try, try, try.
Pink
#88. Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#89. Love, however, cannot be forbidden. The more that flame is covered up, the hotter it burns. Also love can always find a way. It was impossible that these two whose hearts were on fire should be kept apart. (Pyramus and Thisbe)
Edith Hamilton
#90. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
#91. It is because everything is relative
That we shall never see in that sphere of pure wisdom and
Entertainment much more than groping shadows of an incomplete
Former existence so close it burns like the mouth that
Closes down over all your effort like the moment
Of death
John Ashbery
#92. For me, hearing the term 'apply yourself' was like a crucifix to Bella Lugosi's Dracula. 'Ahhh, it burns!'
James Hunter
#93. Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.
Rajneesh
#94. I have trouble with toast. Toast is very difficult. You have to watch it all the time or it burns up.
Julia Child
#95. You can't be happy that fire cooks your food and be mad it burns your fingertips.
Chris Rock
#96. There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, that is the miracle of genius.
Victor Hugo
#97. Anger is a dual fire; it burns not only the one who recieves it but also the one who delivers it.
R.v.m.
#98. Evil is visible, it burns, it smugly displays itself for all to see.
Irene Nemirovsky
#99. Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your possessiveness, it burns your jealousy - it burns all that is wrong and negative, and it enhances all that is beautiful, graceful, divine.
Rajneesh
#100. I've never been jealous before I met you, it burns, luv. Like silver through my veins. Some nights, watching you with other men on your jobs, I think it will drive me mad. (Bones)
Jeaniene Frost
