Quotes About Old Flames

#1. The trouble with class reunions is that old flames have become even older.

Doug Larson

#2. Romantic googling can be as dangerous as drunk text messaging. Of course hell hath no fury like a woman who Google-bombs her old flames name with a word like impotent.

Maureen Dowd

#3. We age inevitably:
The old joys fade and are gone:
And at last comes equanimity and the flame burning clear.

James Oppenheim

#4. I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that.

Selena Gomez

#5. I became a student of the history of religion. I am fascinated by how religions often center on mystical experience, and in the Old Testament tradition you find flames, the burning bush.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#6. That was in nineteen and thirty-one and if I live to be a hunnerd year old I don't think I'll ever see anything as pretty as that train on fire goin up that mountain and around that bend and then flames lightin up the snow and the trees and the night.

Cormac McCarthy

#7. If the old man looked at straight lines to keep his act together, I was going to stare at curved lines and go down in flames.

Natsuo Kirino

#8. Sometimes I gave conflicting emotions because it's been going on for so long now, but then I see somebody dancing real well and it just comes back like an old love. The flame ignites again.

Ann Reinking

#9. Once you deliberately exterminate from your life those things that quench the fire of the Spirit, then He will reveal Himself again and the old flame and passion will be yours.

Herbert Lockyer

#10. Asking someone else to do something immoral is immoral.

Penn Jillette

#11. You will die a worse death if you do not leave my domain," a voice thundered down from the third story of the old tenement. "I am a servant of the Sacred Fire, the wielder of the flame of Arnor - " "So I should call you Gandalf?

Karen Chance

#12. I am essence of Rose Solitude
my cheeks are laced with cognac
my hips sealed with five satin nails
I carry dreams and romance of new fools and old
flames
between the musk of fat
and the side pocket of my mink tongue.

Jayne Cortez

#13. Inside the flames, Reid and I moved together in a dance as old as time.

Amanda Stevens

#14. a White breathing fire on a group of Spoiled kneeling in obvious supplication. An egg bathed in fire and cracking open to reveal the screaming infant Black inside, the flames fading to reveal an old man in a robe staring down at the fledgling drake with the expression of a proud father.

Anthony Ryan

#15. Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation ... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.

Victoria Gotti

#16. Already the dandelions Are changed into vanishing ghosts.

Celia Thaxter

#17. The visual conjured in Val's mind - all that parched, wrinkled flesh in furious friction - culminated in flames, as if some giant cosmic Boy Scout had decided to rub two old people together to make a fire.

Christopher Moore

#18. I know the game, it's old and lame:
You're holdin' a flame for my name and my fame.
Livin' like Givens schemin' on Tyson,
But she got lucky 'cause he was a nice one.
But I ain't nice and I don't play that,
If it ain't tax, I don't pay that.

Kool Moe Dee

#19. So this is how I will die. Aeduan had never thought it would be flames. A beheading, perhaps. Old age, more likely. But not fire - not since he'd escaped that death all those years ago.

Susan Dennard

#20. If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

Victor Hugo

#21. Leave an old flame in the past. It'll just get worse if you rekindle it.

Yeong-hun Kim

#22. Now that Otoko had heard about the night at Enoshima, that old love flared up ominously within her. Yet in those flames she could see a single white lotus blossom. Their love was a dreamlike flower that not even Keiko could stain.

Yasunari Kawabata

#23. Because all this stuff about military targets is absolute rubbish. There's no point in bombing German factories, because they just rebuild them. So we're targeting large areas of dense working-class housing. They can't replace the workers so fast.

Ken Follett

#24. What you cannot escape, you must fight; what you cannot fight, you must endure.

Lilith Saintcrow

#25. It's a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.

Tom Waits

#26. THOMAS CAREW. 1589-1639. Disdain Returned. He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires; As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away.

Various

#27. One section of the old city, tucked against the western walls, becomes a firestorm in which the spires of flames, at their highest, reach three hundred feet. The appetite for oxygen is such that objects heavier than housecats are dragged into the flames.

Anthony Doerr

#28. Some men carry torches for old loves, and then some guys - not many, but some - get completely consumed by the torch's flames. It makes them nothing but long-term trouble for the follow-ups.

Harlan Coben

#29. We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identical
structures.

Don DeLillo