Burn Quotes

“If I'm going to burn, I might as well burn bright. This is for Jason.”
― Rick Riordan, The Tyrant’s Tomb

“In my land, we're known as Paper Girls...
Easily torn, existing only for others to use and discard.
But there's something that they've all forgotten about paper. It can light the world on fire...
And make it burn.”
― Natasha Ngan, Girls of Paper and Fire

“Our regrets, our fears, they hold us back. We have to let them go so we can become what we're supposed to be. We have to burn them all away.”
― Amie Kaufman

“I am sorry," said Monty. "I cannot respond to you in any way. I am just not sufficiently interested in anything you have to say.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Sacred and Profane Love Machine

“I try to be gentle, but there is nothing gentle about the feelings she evokes in me. She’s pure flame, and like her wild hair, she’s making me burn.”
― Anna B. Doe, Lines

“If it were today, I would have her heart cut out, true. But then I would have her head and arms and legs cut off. I would have them disembowel her. And then I would watch, in the town square, as the hangman heated the fire to white-heat with bellows, watch unblinking as he consigned each part of her to the fire. I would have archers around the square, who would shoot any bird or animal who came close to the flames, any raven or dog or hawk or rat. And I would not close my eyes until the princess was ash, and a gentle wind could scatter her like snow.

I did not do this thing, and we pay for our mistakes.”
― Neil Gaiman, Snow, Glass, Apples

“Mordred ever seemed to burn.”
― Kiersten White, The Guinevere Deception

“If you ever come back, I will tell you:

The sun is closer to you
than I will ever be.
So burn,
if you wish.
You will not
see the shadow of me
even if you become
the sun
yourself.”
― Najwa Zebian, The Nectar of Pain

“I stand helpless, a familiar desire seeping into my veins. That desire to watch something burn.”
― Chelsea Ichaso, Little Creeping Things

“Love made fools out of all of us. It lulled you into false sense of security, and then it left you to burn.”
― Ella Fields, A King so Cold

“Shine brighter to burn their Eyes”
― Meer Asif

“We may be darker than all the charcoal in the world. But we will burn to give light!”
― Avijeet Das

“The peasants of love pillage the town of my prideful heart until I burn with compassion.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“You remind me of the way in wars people would burn their own cities to the ground so no one else can have them.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Let me know if there is anything I can do." "Yes." I pulled the shutter on the window. "Leave me alone.”
― Ella Fields, A King so Cold

“Sensuality is a candle of passion that forever burns within us. But it's also a wildfire to some of us.”
― Lebo Grand

“What are we willing to burn to keep warm.”
― Nitya Prakash

“When the last soldier has gone, the people climb over the debris of the burnt house. The tin sheets that were once the roof are still smouldering. A scorched trunk lies open, flames still leaping out of it. What was in it that burns so beautifully?”
― Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness

“People are like a mathematical puzzle. If you don’t know them, they seem difficult. However, once you understand them, they are a game. If you understand a person completely, you can deal with him as simply as you deal with yourself. If you know the nature of fire, you will not burn your fingers in it. Instead, you would use it for cooking your food.”
― Awdhesh Singh, 31 Ways to Happiness

“I have read the [...] scribblings, which I consigned to the fire where they belong — and where they for once cast a little light, which they certainly would not have done otherwise.”
― Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace

“তোমার সাথে প্রতিদিন কথা না হলে,

মন আমার নরকের আগুনের মতন জ্বলে!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“When I lived in Waimea on the Big Island of Hawaii, I was shocked at how quickly I would burn in the Sun.”
― Steven Magee

“If you say a fire, it will not burn you but if you touch a fire it will burn you”
― Sir P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Just because his own wings were burnt, it didn't mean he had to burn others’.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Lifemaker

“The fire inside you can never burn you really...it is to light the best in you”
― Munia Khan, Fireclay

“Out of 135 space shuttle missions, two were total losses.”
― Steven Magee

“Evil is a coal: if it does not burn, it blackens. (Le mal est un charbon: s'il ne brûle pas, il noircit)”
― Charles de Leusse

“The house of leaves burst into full orange-yellow combustion, as the crowd stood up with the reflections shining on their faces and called back as a chorus; the gathered voices grew louder as the flames danced upward and filled the valley with light and shadows.
'Burn it down!' he said.
'Burn it down!' they said.
'BURN IT DOWN!”
― Tom Zoellner, Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire

“Count how many days you have lived! It's easy Math. You will soon realize the worth of living.”
― Umair Siddiqui, The Man Who Lived the Ages

“How come you walk so funny?"

"I was frying some chicken in the pan and the grease exploded, it burned my legs."

"I thought maybe you had war wounds."

"No, the chicken did it.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum