Burn Quotes

“Revenge on everybody. That would fill her time. That would keep her busy. Keep her from feeling her feelings.
If she couldn't be responsible or careful or good or loved, if she was doomed to be a lit match, then Charlie might as well go back to finding stuff to burn.”
― Holly Black, Book of Night

“If she let it linger, then she started to drown, and the only way to make those feelings stop was to burn instead.”
― R.F. Kuang, The Burning God

“If she was destined to burn in Hell, I would burn with her.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

“You cannot move forward in the real world
if you cannot see the real world.
You cannot find the beauty in the world
if all you see is its adornment.

Autumn comes.
Autumn falls.
Autumn leaves.
The world turns fire
and burns off all that is fading.”
― Shellen Lubin

“He was always looking for new and interesting ways to destroy himself.”
― Kalen Dion

“Burn every memory that does not help you grow. Destruction, too, can be necessary.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

“If you like comets, you should like fallen angels. The fallen angels were the ones unafraid to love, unafraid to fall, ready to burn.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“In the beginning he had assumed that they did it out of the goodness of their hearts; but now that he had looked into their hearts, he rejected the explanation.”
― Upton Sinclair, The Metropolis

“how can you love me
when my touch is like
ice so cold it burns?”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Correspondence

“If I was as half as good as I was. I'm still twice as good as you'll ever be.”
― Eminem

“Breakfast, Noah muttered.
Greasy and disgusting, said Matt.
You don't want to eat it?
I wasn't talking about breakfast. I was talking about you.”
― Anthony Horowitz, Raven's Gate

“At your age, I would expect you to have had a boyfriend or two, but if you've had intimate-"
"I'm not that old." Layla bristled, cutting him off.
"In this market you are." Sam smirked. "Most of the girls who have responded to my desilovematch.com profile are under twenty-one. You're practically an auntie. I'm surprised your profile got as much interest as it did.”
― Sara Desai, The Marriage Game

“I want to pluck the sun from the sky and set fire to the whole earth, the whole universe. I want to see all creation engulfed in flames. Everything must burn and burn forever. Especially morality. And democracy. I want to see the flesh of those creatures melting in front of me. I want to see all their corrupt bones and internal organs on fire.”
― Mark Romel, The Mistletoe Murders: A Nietzschean Murder Mystery

“I have come to paint over the sun, so defaced by an eternity of lies. I will pluck the moon from the sky and replace it with a torch that will set alight all of space. The curtains of darkness will perish in flames. The universe will be flooded by a new light, the light of the Truth.”
― Mark Romel, The Mistletoe Murders: A Nietzschean Murder Mystery

“Do gems burn, I wonder? ‘Tis said they’re kin to coal.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Color of Magic

“Like fire extinguisher in the emergency kit made as:

burn to emerge.”
― -ipi(human_bot)

“Go get sandblasted in the urethra.”
― Ashe Ulrich

“Today you may want to check your ego at the door, exit through the back, and then burn the building.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“It’s better to burn in a bundle of wood than burning in a bundle of relatives in relationship.”
― Baba

“You touch me
And I am on fire
Not because you want to watch me burn
But because you set alight a passion within me”
― T.S. Curtis, Shades of Blue

“We all can touch the flame - but it's the moments we remain in it that burn us.”
― Laura Chouette

“Cus D’Amato, who trained Mike Tyson, said emotions, particularly anger, are like fire. They can cook your food and keep you warm, or they can burn your house down. Many great athletes use anger in a positive way. Anger motivates them. Anger steels their resolve. It is much better to become angry than to become afraid.”
― Gary Mack, Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

“When they were burned at the stake it was for being independent and strong-minded, for knowing how to cure illnesses with herbs, for hiking around in the woods to collect said herbs.”
― Mina Samuels, Run Like a Girl 365 Days a Year: A Practical, Personal, Inspirational Guide for Women Athletes

“Coop opens his mouth and his lips tremble. Tremble. Tremble. Words course and roll somewhere inside him, boiling always inside him. A hot kettle bleeding, blurring smoke. Buckle. Pop. Rumble. Always, always deep inside him, a moment--a look--a word--a thought away from bursting over in a fit of steam.”
― Allie Ray, Suffering Fools

“he reads books
because it’ll hurt more
when he eventually burns them”
― Laura Gentile, you ate popcorn in my house of grief: transgenerational poetry

“On principle, I don't want to teach English. It's a slippery slope. You agree to teach English and then suddenly you're forty-five, with a fanny pack and Teva sandals, still teaching English, except inexplicably you have become a white male and you have a hot Chinese girlfriend and everyone else thinks you're a creep.”
― Jessica Pan, Graduates in Wonderland: The International Misadventures of Two (Almost) Adults

“You knew he was here?” I said.

“Sure,” Matthias said. “One of the times I checked on you during the night, he was in your bed. Thought it was Ayden at first, but who am I to judge? Except for their poor choice in women.”
― A. Kirk, Demons in Disguise

“Come on, Val. When are you going to stop playing hard to get?”

I smiled at him. “The second you stop playing impossible to want.”
― Ruby Vincent, Marked

“Always pursue glory. Shine like the stars. Burn up with ambition. Shed your old skin. Try, try, and try again. Fail, fail, and fail again. But fail better, and one day you will not fail at all.”
― David Sinclair, The Church of the Serpent: The Philosophy of the Snake and Attaining Transcendent Knowledge