(534 quotes found)
“Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
William Blake
“I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag”
Craig Washington
“We are no more than candles burning in the wind”
Japanese Proverb
“There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.”
Alison Lurie
“I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone”
Conor Oberst
“It's better to burn out than it is to rust”
Neil Young
“Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish: Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of”
William Shakespeare
“The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn”
David Russell
“Doctors cut, burn, and torture the sick, and then demand of them an undeserved fee for such services”
Heraclitus of Ephesus
“Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.”
Otto Weininger
