Burn Quotes

“I burn, I shiver, out of this sun, into this shadow.”
― Virginia Woolf

“...that yearning inside you that seeks for fulfillment - does it still burn?...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“Yet the only girl who'd love him is his mother...' - A Girl Worth Fighting For (song)”
― David Zippel

“There is nothing in the least special about you. I guarantee you a long life. You have not been chosen by the gods, you will never be at one with your acts, you do not have in you the green light to flash like young lightning with the speed of the gods and destroy yourself. All you have is a certain premature senility. Your life will be suited for coupon-clipping. Nothing more.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Decay of the Angel

“I believe in witches, Sophia,” his deep voice hypnotized her.
“I hope you don’t burn me at the stake,” she murmured to him.
“I don’t burn witches. I set them on fire,” Alistair whispered so low Sophia thought she had heard wrong.”
― Cristiane Serruya, Trust: A New Beginning

“I locked the door and turned on the water to fill the tub. I made it so hot that I had to get in real slow. I wanted it to hurt; wanted my outside to feel as bad as my inside. I sat there a long time watching my skin turn redder and redder... Finally my insides was as fiery as my skin. I liked the burn and hoped it took everything I'd been wishing for and turned it to ashes.”
― Susan Crandall, Whistling Past the Graveyard

“You should've thought of that before becoming a fireman."

"Thought!" he said. "Was I given a choice? I was raised to think the best thing in the world is not to read. The best thing is television and radio and ball games and a home I can't afford and, Good Lord, now, only now I realize what I've done. My grandfather and father were firemen. Walking in my sleep I followed them.”
― Ray Bradbury, A Pleasure to Burn: Chilling Dystopian Fiction Exploring Censorship and the Origins of Fahrenheit 451

“My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the books. They're dangerous."
"Men like that always are.”
― Ray Bradbury, A Pleasure to Burn: Chilling Dystopian Fiction Exploring Censorship and the Origins of Fahrenheit 451

“Oh, fucking fuckery,”
― C.D. Reiss, Burn

“ 'Adult life is a series of compromises, Adrien.'

'Yeah, only you're negotiating with the Devil.'

Still not looking at me, he growled, 'Oh, go to hell.'

I raised my water in a toast. 'Sure. I'll follow the trail of bread crumbs you're scattering.' ”
― Josh Lanyon, Death of a Pirate King

“You wouldn't know what the fuck to do in a dangerous situation if your life depended on it. And it would, little one.”
― T.E. Sivec, A Beautiful Lie

“Arthur Devlin, you and my husband may have been in the same grade, but you were never in the same class.”
― Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest

“And if there is one last thing I would have you know before we reach these final pages, it's that sometimes, no matter how hard we try, no matter how hard we want it to be so, sometimes there is no such a thing as happy ending.

This is my ending. This is how i burn.”
― T.J. Klune, Burn

“What they lack in stature, they make up for with their mouths.”
― Kim Dong Hwa, The Color of Earth

“Too often critics have taken as the sole and crucial matter of fantasy the preoccupation of Tolkien, the quest for a remedy to the world's pain that will not destroy innocence with the temptations of power. Impressive and popular as The Lord of the Rings is, it manages its landscapes, vast green-leaved or slag-heaped vistas of pathetic fallacy and implied morality, far better than its people; it leaves the impression that important issues have been turned by sleight of hand and Georgian prettiness into questions of good and bad practice in urban planning and rural conservation. After all, the Grail is only worth seeking if you can believe in a god who put it there to help those who help themselves, in an Avalon to which burned-out heroes can retire with dignity. There is another great Matter for fantasy, one of more obvious resonance for the creative artist - the reconciliation of faerie and humanity; of the passion, power and wit of a world of sensuality, magic, and danger with the requirements of kind and ordinary life.”
― Roz Kaveney

“I didn't want to miss out on a chance to congratulate you on your bouncing baby boy.” Garrett’s eyes trailed over to Milo who stood tall with an arrogant smile on his face next to his father. “I’m not sure on the protocol over here, though, is it customary to celebrate bastards?” Garrett’s comment hit the mark just like he knew it would. The smile was wiped from Milo’s face, and he stalked right up to Garrett and threw a punch at his jaw.”
― T.E. Sivec, A Beautiful Lie

“With a firm hushed tone, she replied, "Just let him go. Women like Anne will always be the best choice for our lifestyle"

"Well, that may be true, but at least when he was with me, he didn't have to drink himself to death just to get through the day”
― Devon Ashley, Falling Away

“Women always said he was warm. They snuggled with him in bed, grateful for the heat. A couple of his lovers even claimed that, when he was inside them, he heated them from the inside out.
A pleasant flattery, perhaps, but one Hope would discover the truth of. For when she touched him, he did burn.”
― Christina Dodd, Just the Way You Are

“Since death, as the existential horizon of Dasein, is considered absolute, it becomes the absolute in the form of an icon. There is here a regression to the cult of death; thus the jargon has from the beginning gotten along well with military manners. Now, as earlier, that answer is valid which Horkheimer gave to an enthusiastic female devotee of Heidegger's. She said that Heidegger had finally, at least, once again placed men before death; Horkheimer replied that Ludendorff had taken care of that much better.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, The Jargon of Authenticity

“You have a dedication to life and truth that burns out of you as beauty and I envy it so much I want to be around it for the rest of my life.”
― Trevor D. Richardson, Dystopia Boy: The Unauthorized Files

“Someone should say that; why we shouldn’t burn their schools and destroy their buildings and infrastructures instead of burning our own homes.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“Burn me to ground, tear me in pieces, cut me in parts, but love me.”
― M.F. Moonzajer

“Now, let's talk about your current situation. I see that one of my hounds got a little rough with you."
Kayson sees Falon's mocking smile and returns it. "Not as much as I did him when I pushed my sword through his head.”
― Brandy Nacole, Broken Faith

“Billy leaned forward. 'What's he like?' he whispered conspiratorially.

'Who?' Tock asked, looking confused.

'Felix. The Split One. I heard he came in this afternoon shooting fire and wind from his hands and told the Council to shove it.'

'Uh, not quite,' Tick said. 'He kind of waved to everyone and went upstairs.' ”
― T.J. Klune, Burn

“I might be old and ugly now, but you started that way, Jack.”
― Regina Sirois, On Little Wings

“Looks delicious," he lied. "A mite crispy along the edges - but then, I like it that way."

Incredulous eyes met his own. "You like your potatoes burned?"

Ah, so he'd been right about that. If he could still recognize what it was she'd cooked, then surely he could eat it.”
― Tracy Anne Warren, The Wife Trap

“I'll sit on him,' Otis says and laughs like it's the funniest thing in the world. He twirls a small ball of fire in one hand and a Desert Eagle .50 Caliber in the other. If Seven didn't know him, he'd probably be running away as fast as he could. It's a big gun.”
― T.J. Klune, Burn

“Not every movement is progress; Some movements are just a way of burning fats!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Buddha initially excluded women from his monasteries. When pressed, he made their entry conditional upon perpetual subservience to the lowliest (newest) male monks. Was this an example of unchanging wisdom? Or were some of his ideas not so enlightened, but rather a function of his place in history? His agenda to end suffering has had millennia to test itself and has failed. Are people just not good enough or smart enough? Is there something wrong with people or is something wrong with the agenda? His methodology for ending suffering was tied to the concept of enlightenment, which involves renouncing both the self and self-centeredness. So as an essentially renunciate religion, Buddhism is also essentially authoritarian, with Buddha being the absolute authority on what to renounce and how to go about it. Some modern Buddhists would bristle at calling Buddhism renunciate. They would say that through dis-identifying or detaching from the illusion that there is a self, self-centeredness effortlessly leaves. We view this as their illusion.”
― Joel Kramer Diana Astad, The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power

“king reigns The forever title.”
― JamieRay