Flames Quotes - Page 40

• [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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• True zeal is an ignis lambeus, a soft and gentle flame, that will not scorch one's hand.

  Ralph Cudworth

  Hands, Gentle, Zeal

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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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• A flame burns brightest just before it goes out.

  Gene Tierney

  Intensity

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Fall, Gay, Night

  Edgar Allan Poe (1927). “Tales by Edgar Allan Poe”, p.266, Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

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• In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.

  Bill Bryson

  Science, Eyebrows, Hydrogen

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.60, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I believe it was Shakespeare, or possibly Howard Cosell, who first observed that marriage is very much like a birthday candle, in that 'the flames of passion burn brightest when the wick of intimacy is first ignited by the disposable butane lighter of physical attraction, but sooner or later the heat of familiarity causes the wax of boredom to drip all over the vanilla frosting of novelty and the shredded coconut of romance.' I could not have phrased it better myself.

  Dave Barry

  Believe, Passion, Funny Marriage

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• Stick Boy liked Match Girl, He liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot. But could a flame ever burn for a match and a stick? It did quite literally; he burned up quick.

  Tim Burton

  Cute, Girl, Boys

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• You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs―the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limbs, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate―the little deadly demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Artist, Order

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.72, Vintage

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• Evil conquered?' said Gwydion. 'You have learned much, but learn this last and hardest of lessons. You have conquered only the enchantments of evil. That was the easiest of your tasks, only a beginning, not an ending. Do you believe evil itself to be so quickly overcome? Not so long as men still hate and slay each other, when greed and anger goad them. Against these even a flaming sword cannot prevail, but only that portion of good in all men's hearts whose flame can never be quenched.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Hate, Believe, Heart

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The High King: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.164, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.

  Antonin Artaud

  Laughing, Burning, Actors

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• That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so no one’s death meant an immediate vanishment from the world; in some sense the deceased would live on after their passing, at least as long as those who loved them lived. Such memories were an essential weapon against the chaos of life and death, a way to ensure some continuity from generation to generation, an order of endorsement and meaning.

  Dean Koontz

  Memories, Good Friend, Order

  Dean Koontz (2004). “The Bad Place”, p.360, Penguin

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• I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage--self destructive, destroy the world rage--and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.

  Sidney Poitier

  Self, Trying, World

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• Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

  C. S. Lewis

  Prayer, Doe, World

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• The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Flower, Dark, Rose

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.40, Vintage

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• Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form--no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing... The body, sluggish, aged , cold--the embers left from early fires, ...shall duly flame again

  Nicholas Sparks

  Fire, Identity, World

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• There was only the broad square with the scattered dim moons of the street lamps and with the monumental stone arch which receded into the mist as though it would prop up the melancholy sky and protect beneath itself the faint lonely flame on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, which looked like the last grave of mankind in the midst of night and loneliness.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Lonely, Loneliness, Moon

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• Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Romantic, Soulmate

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into my head with tremendous speed, and made me feel dizzy. It was beautiful. Everything that happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Beautiful, Crazy, Sea

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• By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer

  Albert Schweitzer

  Spiritual, Religious, Fire

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• During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor to guard against "dangerous thought." Whether accounts of zombie attacks perished in the flames will never be known. This obscure section of a medical manuscript, preserved in the wall of an executed Chinese scholar, might be proof of such attacks.

  Max Brooks

  Wall, Book, Agriculture

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.186, Broadway Books

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• You cannot put a fire out! A thing that can ignite can go itself- without a flame- E'en through the darkest night!

  Emily Dickinson

  Night, Fire, Ignite

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• My poor life This shawl Frayed on strongboxes full of gold I roll along with Dream And smoke And the only flame in the universe

  Blaise Cendrars

  Dream, Gold, Poor

  Blaise Cendrars (1993). “Complete Poems”, p.18, Univ of California Press

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• Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

  Herman Melville

  Whales, Giving, Maelstrom

  Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.156

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• I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fire, Tiny, Steak

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