The World Is Burning Quotes

#1. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

Swami Vivekananda

#2. There is no such thing as an artist: there is only the world lit or unlit as the light allows. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it?

Annie Dillard

#3. Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.

P.D. Ouspensky

#4. Brightly burning passion is the releasing of your essence, your specialness and your gifts to the world.

Bryant McGill

#5. Twinkle, twinkle, little star, Burning gas is what you are, Up above the world so high, You'll burn gas until you die, Twinkle, twinkle, little star, Burning gas is what you are.

Belle Aurora

#6. I personally think that what the big (writers) have in common is a fierce moral sensibility, which is unquenchable and they are all burning with the same anger at the way the world is.
The little ones have made a peace with it, and the bigger ones can't make any peace.

Arthur Miller

#7. Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within Samsara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty.

Roger Zelazny

#8. It is not so much light that falls over the world extended by your body its suffocating snow, as brightness, pouring itself out of you, as if you were burning inside. Under your skin the moon is alive.

Pablo Neruda

#9. Obsessed with Christine to the end, his last statement as he left his cell was, 'to kill is the final possession'. But Muldowney was wrong. He had never possessed Christine; the resistance burning within her was too great.

Clare Mulley

#10. Recognize the cost is your life, and willingly lay yourself down. The world hates the smell of that sacrifice, because it is the smell of grace. They hate it because it is the smell of something living and burning at the same time - something that is impossible without a risen Savior.

Tony Reinke

#11. A man is seated on top of a tree in the midst of a burning forest. He sees all living beings perish. But he doesn't realize that the same fate is soon to overtake him also. That man is fool.

Mahavira

#12. It is a dreary world out there. It makes one thankful after all to be indoors with a fire burning in the hearth.

Mary Balogh

#13. When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers.

Will.i.am

#14. After the successful but disastrous raid on Mount Weather, he's facing the impossible. Katy is gone. Taken. Everything becomes about finding her. Taking out anyone who stands in his way? Done. Burning down the whole world to save her? Gladly. Exposing his alien race to the world? With pleasure.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#15. Your heart is burning strong with righteous indignation... That flame is scattering sparks that may set fire elsewhere. That fire of yours will one day spread to others seeking a just world. The point is whether you have a torch in your heart or not. To light a fire to others.

Sui Ishida

#16. Bast looked at him incredulously."The whole world is burning down,"he said."Open your eyes.

Patrick Rothfuss

#17. It is from Italy that we are flinging this to the world, our manifesto of burning and overwhelming violence, with which we today establish " Futurism ," for we intend to free this nation from its fetid cancer of professors, archaeologists, tour guides, and antiquarians.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

#18. 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

#19. When the candle is burning, who looks at the wick? When the candle is out, who needs it? But the world without light is wasteland and chaos, and a life without sacrifice is abomination.

Annie Dillard

#20. If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.

Bernie Siegel

#21. The worldly life is constantly ablaze. To keep expectation, that it will extinguish, is wrong. So then we too should say to it, 'you can keep on burning!

Dada Bhagwan

#22. Of all the things in the world that can set the heart burning, there is nothing like the presence of Jesus!

Charles Spurgeon

#23. We have a light upon our house, and it gives hope to all who sail upon the stormy seas. Do ya know what it means to have a light burning atop your home? It is safety, a place of refuge, seen by all that as a signal that ye stand for something greater than this world, greater than us all.

James Michael Pratt

#24. The Whole World Knows By Now ... That Tibet is Burning. Even If We All Turn Our Eyes Blind To It ... The Fact Still Remains The Same ... That Tibet Is Being Destroyed! Humanity In Unity, Must Now Step Up To The Plate And SAVE Tibet!

Timothy Pina

#25. An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew

Michael Bassey Johnson

#26. You will be burning alive, when the ones who meant the world to you leaves for no reasons ... In fact, its not their absence which is hurting, but its the memories of their presence which is tearing your heart apart ...

Gayathri Purushothaman

#27. a dream world, a world of magic and ritual, yet there are images there of the burning cars and radar systems, which remind you there is a price to be paid in order to gain this dream in the face of a world of violence.

Derek Jarman

#28. When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.

Richard Kadrey

#29. There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

Leo Tolstoy

#30. The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

Sandra Cisneros

#31. Is it a world in the making
that turns as it whistles to the depths of my being
It is burning
Suppose it were to appear
A bleeding rosary at the window
a sun setting on the marshlands
("Silver Clasp")

Paul Dermee

#32. What's happening to our world? Imagine the year 2000 and our ozone layer has vanished ... Our planet has a fever and she is burning up - what will you do?

Charlene, Princess Of Monaco

#33. Maybe all you can do, when your world is burning, is hold on to the thing you love the most.

Jackson Pearce

#34. Greed is empowered by knowledge, but we shouldn't be burning books or reject such knowledge, as what happened during the Inquisition and World War 2. We should instead share it and learn it.

Daniel Marques

#35. The word of God directs us in our work and way, and a dark place indeed the world would be without it. The commandment is a lamp kept burning with the oil of the Spirit, as a light to direct us in the choice of our way, and the steps we take in that way.

Matthew Henry

#36. The world out there is burning, Ty."
Ty ran his finger down Zane's cheek, nodding. "But we were born in a kiln

Abigail Roux

#37. Daemon," a voice whispered from the shadows of my front porch. "What in the world are you doing out here?" Debating on whether or not burning down a house next time they head to the store is a reasonable response to getting new neighbors? Yeah, I was gonna keep that one to myself.

Jennifer L. Armentrout