Flames Quotes - Page 34

• And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.

  Daniel Keyes

  Plato, Eye, Men

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.285, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life is a pure flame and we live by an invisible sun within us.

  Thomas Browne

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  1658 Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial), ch.5.

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• Every night in my dreams, a man appeared from the darkest recesses of my mind, as if he'd been waiting for me to fall asleep. His mouth, full, masculine, would sear my flesh. His tongue, like flames across my skin, would send tiny sparks quaking through my body. Then he would dip south, and the heavens would open and a chorus singing hallelujah would ring out in perfect harmony.

  Darynda Jones

  Dream, Fall, Night

  Darynda Jones (2011). “First Grave on the Right”, p.9, Macmillan

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• Mencheres slid through the water toward her, drawn by the same inexorable compulsion that led moths to dance with flames. He'd had several lifetimes' worth of reason, cold machinations, and, ultimately, emptiness. Perhaps the moths knew what he didn't, that the joy of the flame was worth the price of destruction.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Water, Joy, Emptiness

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• Simon had never noticed before, but she wore a silver ring on her right hand, with a partner of flames around the band of it, and a carved L in the center. It reminded him of the ring Clary wore around her neck, with its design of stars. "It's the Lightwood family ring," she said, noticing where his gaze was fixed. "Every family has an emblem. Ours is fire.

  Cassandra Clare

  Stars, Fire, Hands

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• And there shall be a flame-green daybreak soon. And love itself will cry for insurrection! For tomorrow is also a day - and Titus has entered his stronghold.

  Mervyn Peake

  And Love, Green, Tomorrow

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.408, The Overlook Press

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• A flame may love a snowflake, but they can never be together without each harming the other.

  Chris Colfer

  Together, May, Snowflake

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• When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fire, Leap, Burned

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Then the musical instruments appeared. Dad’s snare drum from the house, Henry’s guitar from his car, Adam’s spare guitar from my room. Everyone was jamming together, singing songs: Dad’s songs, Adam’s songs, old Clash songs, old Wipers songs. Teddy was dancing around, the blond of his hair reflecting the golden flames. I remember watching it all and getting that tickling in my chest and thinking to myself: This is what happiness feels like.

  Gayle Forman

  Song, Dad, Thinking

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.107, Penguin

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• I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.

  Walt Whitman

  Thinking, Fire, Body

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• Pics or it didn't happen." "Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame.

  Rachel Caine

  Littles, Busy, Throwing

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Black Dawn”, p.61, Allison & Busby

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• I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

  Jennifer Egan

  Life, Art, Want

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.98, Anchor

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• The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.

  Alexander Pope

  Christian, Hope, Pain

  'The Dying Christian to his Soul' (1730).

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• Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fire, Two, White

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• Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand amputations, and blindness. So have some self respect and don't let things get too far before the wedding day.

  Meg Cabot

  Boys, Self, Hands

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• She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat and flame that would end the world around them, leaving them nothing but ashes, clean and fierce and forever welded together.

  Christine Feehan

  Forever, Leaving, Together

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Wild Fire”, p.118, Penguin

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• Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see.

  Henry George

  Ideas, Torches, Noble

  Henry George, William Saunders, Francis George Shaw (1900). “Social problems”

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• A sneer is like a flame; it may occasionally be curative because it cauterizes, but it leaves a bitter scar.

  Margaret Deland

  Positive, May, Scar

  Margaret Deland (2015). “The Awakening of Helena Richie”, p.230, The Floating Press

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• Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness of the individual is like a flame that burns through the night. It is not the same flame over time, yet neither is it another flame.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Buddhist, Night, Mystical Experiences

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• Another secret we carry is that though drab outside - wreckage to the eye, mirrors a mortification - inside we flame with a wild life that is almost incommunicable.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Eye, Mirrors, Wild Life

  Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.21, Knopf

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• Though jealousy be produced by love, as ashes are by fire, yet jealousy extinguishes love as ashes smother the flame.

  Marguerite de Navarre

  Jealousy, Fire, Ashes

  "L'Heptaméron" by Marguerite of Navarre, Fifth Day, Novel XLVIII (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.

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• I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.

  Xaviera Hollander

  Sex, Blow, Fire

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• I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden.

  Winifred Holtby

  Summer, Laughter, Stupid

  Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”

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• [Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.

  Joan of Arc

  May, Crosses, Stakes

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• They say that your first love never dies. You can put out the flames, but not the fire.

  Bonnie Tyler

  First Love, Fire, Firsts

  Song: First Love

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