1,723 Quotes About Fire

Love is the only fire that warms the human heart.

If you touch the fire or if the fire touches you, it is you who will be burned, Touch Me Not

The smell of things burning that aren’t meant to burn wafts across the city: shoe polish, rat poison, toothpaste, piano strings, hernia trusses, baby cribs, Indian clubs. And hair and skin. By this time, hair and skin.

You’re meant for greatness. I don't care how many times you've tried to go for it and failed. Or how many times you’ve attempted to unleash the fire within you. Or how many times you've tried to become a badass and fallen short. You’re meant for greatness.

Keep your lamp burning.

A fight is like a fire. You think you have it under control, you think you can stop it whenever you want, but before you know it, it's a living, breathing thing and there's no controlling it and you were a fool to think you could.

[...]she stared at the fire, the way it ate everything in its path. It twisted and contorted and devoured. As it chewed through everything in its path, it was like the murderer. No thought for the next victim it attacked. No remorse for the ruins it left behind. No conscience to stop its vengenance.

The burning hillsides seemed to make the relentless daylight of Jamaica even sharper and more dazzling, and the visual effect of flames spreading in all directions at night was like nothing anybody had ever seen before, as if the combined anger and desperation of three hundred years had been unleashed on the hills. The white people, it seemed, had been magically dispelled.

Faith is a flame that never burns out.