Best shame & fire Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I know of a world that is sunk in shame, Where hearts oft faint and tire; But I know of a Name, a precious Name, That can set that world on fire: Its sound is sweet, its letters flame. I know of a Name, a precious Name, 'Tis Jesus.”

Knows World Heart Jesus Names Sound Fire Sweet Letters Shame Flames Tire

Author:J. Chapman

“There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.”

Littles Stories Fire Comfortable Draws Shame Rounds Winter Smell Ghost Spooky Ghost Stories Chestnuts

Book:Christmas Stories from

Source: Christmas Stories from

“My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns;Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals;The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls.”

Men Soul Justice Love Is Fire Mercy Shame Blow Smoke Fuel Breasts Metals Ashes Coal Sigh Scorn Thorns Furnaces

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.”

I Can Lying Fire Fields Cold Bears Eternal Shame Endless Void Frozen Scorpions

Book:The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie

Source: The dramatic and poetical works of Joanna Baillie

“Getting plastic surgery in your late 70's, it's kind of like painting your house as the fire approaches. Just die, there's no shame in it.”

Kind Dies House Fire Painting Late Approach Shame Plastic Surgery Plastic Surgery

Author:Dana Gould

“She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.”

Men Soul Body Turns Opportunity Fire Serious Ready Thousand Six Shame Dinner Tongue Clock Knees Shallow Topics Twisted Consumed Departed Baffled Triviality Serious Things Burnt Out

Author:Aleister Crowley

“Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?”

Sometimes Girl Wish Half Fire Alive Shame Wings Sorry Necks Brows Blushing Flare Gnats Flare Up

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)

“Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it.”

Water Poor Lord Gone Doubt Fire Too Much Tears Speech Shame Tricks Folly Ophelia Adieu

Author:William Shakespeare

“There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will soften and bend and change its form... Trust me on this one. I know this from personal experience. I hope that you never will, but, since you're a person, and therefore prone to making horrible, soul-splitting mistakes, you probably will one day know what this kind of guilt and shame feels like. And when that time comes, I hope you have the strength...to take advantage of the fire and reshape your own sword.”

Knows Feels Kind Persons Soul Pain Form Certain Mistake Fire One Day Advantage Shame Guilt Rage Horrible Strongest Trust Me Personal Experiences Splitting

Author:Adam Gidwitz

“My struggle has allowed me to transcend that sense of shame and stigma identified with my being a Black gay man. Having come through the fire, they can't touch me.”

Men Black Struggle Fire Identity Gay Overcoming Shame Senses Lgbt Black People Stigma Identification Gay Men Touch Me Transcending My Struggle

Author:Marlon Riggs

“There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.”

World Earth Night Black Water Fire Violence Air Sea Moon Gold Shame Moved Speed Rhythm Silver Ritual Elders Unicorn Air And Water Opal

Book:Black Unicorn

Source: Black Unicorn

“[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.”

Past Black Fire Murder Shame Torture Ashamed Rope Black History Heirs Inhuman

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.”

Done Evil Names Fire Cry Shame Flames Evil Things

Author:Bob Dylan

“You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book.”

Book Ends Dark Novel Fire Written Shame Over You Realising Bubbles Cathedrals

Author:Michael Cunningham

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