1,723 Quotes About Fire

Slowly accepting that it's okay to lose the passion I had for what once kindled a fire in me. For maybe this is life's way of pushing me into experiencing more. May God grant us less clinging and more moving on, more letting go.

A laugh exploded from her throat. “One time. One time when I was sixteen, you asshole!” “One time is significant when setting fires to the kitchen,” Sky commented, drawing plates from her cupboards with a clink. “I’ve never done it.

What do you do to stop a fire from burning? You kill it.

Am I a flame? I wonder, but I already know. I got too close and now I'm one of them. An angry flame that has spread like a bushfire turning everything in my path to ashes. That's what we'll all be soon. Nothing but ashes. Nothing but dust.

Get off your knees. Stand up. God is not outside you. You are God. And who can defeat an army of Gods? Escape your chains. What have you got to lose? Don’t you want to taste freedom? Don’t you want to step into the light? Don’t you want to be a heroic bearer of the sacred, ineffable starlight and the bright flame that can never be extinguished? Join us. Embrace the future.

The fire must not go out. The flame must be lit.

In a big city, there are always fires somewhere. And there are always crimes somewhere, too. God, despairing of burning away crime with fire , perhaps distributed crime and fire in equal quantities. Thus crime is never consumed by fire, while innocence can be burned up. That's why insurance companies prosper. My guilt, however--in order that it might become a pure thing immune to fire, must not my innocence first pass through the fire?

And the high-heaped fire spat, all ready for the chestnuts and the mulling pokers.

Fire is therefore too many things and – as well as being a psychological phenomenon – it becomes a symbol, and like all symbols it is ambiguous, polysemic and evokes different meanings according to the situation.