Quotessence
Home / Topics / Flames Quotes

Flames Quotes

Browse 1271 quotes about Flames.

Related topics

FireIfsLightMenWorldHeartKnowsBurningCandlePeopleSoulEyeSparksThinkingMayLittlesFirstsWantLove IsWayGivingNightSpiritHumansMindSaidDiesPassionEndsShouldStillsAshesSmokeTryingFansFeelsLoveWholeHandsStarsWindFuelBehindsBurnedEarthLongWaterDarkDesireDoeNamesWellsYearsBodyColdHeatLooksNeedsPureDarknessHeavenInspirationalJoyLastsMeanMomentsPersonsSpiritualTorchesAliveFallHellHouseShiningEnoughForceI CanTwoChildrenDivineDreamFeelingsFlowerHas BeensLitMadeWaitingWarAgeBlueIdeasMightMothsRedRoomsRoseSeaSelfSkyAirmore

Flames Quotes

“we look up and we hope the stars look down, we pray that there may be stars for us to follow, stars moving across the heavens and leading us to our destiny, but it's only our vanity. We look at the galaxy and fall in love, but the universe cares less about us than we do about it, and the stars stay in their courses however much we may wish upon them to do otherwise. It's true that if you watch the sky-wheel turn for a while you'll see a meteor fall, flame and die. That's not a star worth following; it's just an unlucky rock. Our fates are here on earth. There are no guiding stars.”

IfsLooksMayCareEarthMovingDiesTurnsFallUniverseCoursesHeavenWishStarsWatchesDestinyFateSkyRocksPrayingFalling In LoveFollowingVanityFlamesWheelsLook UpGalaxyOur DestinyUnluckyMeteorsGuiding Stars
Book:The Moor's last sigh
Create image

“They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?" No. Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it." Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames.”

LongSaidStillsUsedGirlHouseFireHeardStrangeNeededLong TimeAccidentsFlamesLong AgoLong Time AgoFireman
Book:Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
Create image

“You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin’ the truth of it, workin’ for it, breathin’ the soul of it. That’s religion. Anything else is just . . . is just bein’ nice. And a way of keepin’ in touch with the neighbors.”

PeopleWayMeanSoulNiceSacrificeOne DayFolksNeighborFlamesOne Day At A TimeTrue Faith
Author:Terry Pratchett
Create image

“Burns from dropped matches, Ms. Lane? Matches one might have dropped while flirting with a pernicious Fae, Ms. Lane? Have you any idea the value of this rug?” I didn’t think his nostrils could flare any wider. His eyes were black flame. “Pernicious? Good grief, is English your second language? Third?” Only someone who’d learned English from a dictionary would use such a word. “Fifth,” he snarled. “Answer me.”

ThinkingIdeasUseMightEyeValuesLanguageBlackAnswersGriefThirdsFlamesHis EyesFlirtingFifthDictionaryFaeLanesPerniciousFlare
Author:Karen Marie Moning
Create image

“I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in a great flame. But then you come; and you're so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly still beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly trusting it to come true.”

WantMindStillsI CanTwoWaitingHoursVisionSeeingWasteYesterdayRememberedFlamesNow And ThenLooking ForwardThirstyBeside You
Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)
Create image

“There is absolutely no such thing as reading but by a candle. We have tried the affectation of a book at noon-day in gardens, and in sultry arbours, but it was labor thrown away. Those gay motes in the beam come about you, hovering and teasing, like so many coquets, that will have you all to their self, and are jealous of your abstractions. By the midnight taper, the writers digests his meditations. By the same light we must approach to their perusal, if we would catch the flame, the odour.”

IfsBookSelfLightReadingMeditationGayApproachGardenLaborFlamesThrownJealousCandleMidnightAbstractionBeamNoonTeaseHovering
Book:The Essays of Elia and The Last Essays of Elia
Create image

“Spiritual Partnership ... The new female and the new male are partners on a journey of spiritual growth. They want to make the journey. Their love and trust keep them together. Their intuition guides them. They consult with each other. They are friends. They laugh a lot. They are equals. That is what a spiritual partnership is: a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth.”

WantTogetherSpiritualPurposeGrowthLaughingJourneyFemaleMalesIntuitionGuidesPartnersFlamesSpiritual GrowthPartnershipLove And TrustYour SoulmateSoulmate LoveFlames And LoveSpiritual Partnership
Book:Soul Stories
Create image

“Tell you what.' Alec reached for a second seraph blade. 'We live through this, and I promise I'll introduce you to my whole family.' Magnus raised his hands, his fingers shining with individual azure flames. They lit his grin with a fiery blue glow. 'It's a deal.”

WholeHandsIndividualDealsPromiseBlueShiningRaisedFingersFlamesIntroducingLitBladesI PromiseFieryWhole FamilyAzure
Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
Create image

“Power, true power, comes from the belief in true things, and the willingness to stand behind that belief, even if the universe itself conspires to thwart your plans. Chaos may settle; flames may die; worlds may rise and fall. But true things will remain so, and will never fail to guide you to your goals.”

IfsWorldMayDiesFallUniverseBeliefGoalBehindsPlansFailingChaosGuidesSettlingFlamesWillingnessRise And FallTrue PowerTrue Things
Book:Here, There Be Dragons
Create image

“He Sipped his coffee, watched the flames. "You gave me my life, you did," He insisted when Summerset made a protesting sound. "And I worked-in my fashion- to build this place. I asked you to tend it for me. You've never let me down. But I needed her. The one thing, the only thing that could make this place home." "She's not what I would have chosen for you" "Oh, that I know" "But she's right for you. The one for you." Despite, or maybe due to, her many flaws" "I imagine she thinks the same thing about you". Memory in Death, Roarke and Summerset”

ThinkingKnowsMadeHomeSoundMemoriesImagineOne ThingFashionNeededLet MeDuesCoffeeChosenDespiteFlamesFlawsLet Me Down
Author:Nora Roberts
Create image

“If I had my way," Dionysus said, "I would cause your molecules to erupt in flames. We'd sweep up the ashes and be done with a lot of trouble. But Chiron seems to feel this would be against my mission at this cursed camp: to keep you little brats safe from harm." "Spontaneous combustion is a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in. "Nonsense," Dionysus said. "Boy wouldn't feel a thing. Nevertheless, I've agreed to restrain myself. I'm thinking of turning you into a dolphin instead, sending you back to your father.”

IfsThinkingWayFeelsLittlesSaidDoneSeemsWould BeFormFatherCausesBoysTroubleSafeMissionsHarmMy WayFlamesNonsenseCampsAshesNeverthelessSpontaneousCursedMoleculesDolphinsBratCombustionDionysusSpontaneous Combustion
Author:Rick Riordan
Create image

“In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at a single glorious thing: a flame of red geranium outside my bedroom window. And then another: my daughter in a yellow dress. And another: the perfect outline of a full, dark sphere behind the crescent moon. Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, I have taught myself joy, over and over again(15).”

WorldLifeLooksLongHardJoyLostDarkMy OwnPerfectBehindsBrainWorstTaughtMoonSkillsDespairLong TimeDaughterRedWindowSeasonsDressesVictimFlamesGloriousMy DaughterYellowSpheresBedroomStrokesRebirthOutlinesColorlessCrescentCrescent Moon
Author:Barbara Kingsolver
Create image

“She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.”

KnowsShouldLooksLittlesSaidEndsMightRememberFeltWonderNervousFlamesFancyCandleGoing Out
Book:Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Create image

“You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies for chasing on summer nights. Some are like campfires, all light and heat for a night and willing to be left after. Some women are like hearthfires, not much to look at but underneath they are all warm red coal that burns a long, long while.”

LooksLongLightNightLeftWomenFireWillingSummerRedWarmFlamesHeatFriendlySparksCandleCoalChasingFireflyEmbersCampfireSummer NightsName Of The Wind
Author:Patrick Rothfuss
Create image

“A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be nurtured, it must be fanned into flame. It must learn to seek out other sparks, it must dominate the shell. Anything can be a shell, Reuven. Anything. Indifference, laziness, brutality, and genius. Yes, even a great mind can be a shell and choke the spark.”

MenWorldMindSoulEvilBornThis WorldGeniusGoodnessTinyTreasureFlamesIndifferenceSparksLazinessShellsUglinessBrutalityChokeGuardedGreat Minds
Author:Chaim Potok
Create image

“I'd sit around dreaming that the boys I saw at shows or at work - the boys with silver earrings and big boots - would tell me I was beautiful, take me home and feed me Thai food or omelets and undress me and make love to me all night with the palm trees whispering windsongs about a tortured gleaming city and the moonlight like flame melting our candle bodies.”

ShowsHomeDreamBodyBigsBeautifulNightCitiesBoysSawsTreeFlamesSilverTake MeCandleBootsMaking LovePalmsAll NightMoonlightMeltingWhisperingEarringsThaiPalm TreesOmeletsThai FoodMake Love To Me
Author:Francesca Lia Block
Create image

“Zia," I said, "that's a goddess. She defeated Bast. What chance do you have?" Zia held up her staff and the carved lion's head burst into flames - a small red fireball so bright, it lit the entire room. "I am a scribe in the House of LIfe, Sadie Kane. I am trained to fight gods.”

SaidFightingHouseChanceRoomsRedFlamesLionsGoddessDefeatedStaffLitSadieScribesSadie Kane
Book:The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid
Create image

“In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.”

YearsMindSoulEyeEarthLastsBlackHoursCitiesSilenceMillionsDarknessSawsDyingCryTerribleSorrowBattleHundredEmptyArmyWingsFinalsGravesCrueltyFlightBitterFlamesRollingPitsDominionStretching
Book:The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)
Create image