440 Quotes About Flames

For the heavens are sending us love like a flame spreading through straw and desire like the swoop of the falcon!

Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.

Is that love? It seems like a pale word, too easily tossed about by people who don’t know the meaning of it, who twist it for their own ends. I’m afraid of it now, right up there with clowns, close spaces, and open flames.

Though you are three times more beautiful than angels, Though you are the sister of the river willows, I will kill you with my singing, Without spilling your blood on the ground. Not touching you with my hand, Not giving you one glance, I will stop loving you, But with your unimaginable groans I will finally slake my thirst. From her, who wandered the earth before me, Crueler than ice, more fiery than flame, From her, who still exists in the ether— From her you will set me free.

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

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.

From a small spark, Great flame has risen.