"The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world."
Read quote
16 likes
Fire quotes
Fire
3.9K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Fire
Browse quotes that often appear alongside fire — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Fire quotes (page 14 of 195)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape: the ear hears words that talk about all this. When hearing takes place, character areas change; but when you see, inner areas change. If all you know about fire is what you have heard see if the fire will agree to cook you! Certain energies come only when you burn. If you long for belief, sit down in the fire! When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye. But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens."
Read quote
16 likes
"Eloquence may set fire to reason."
Read quote
16 likes
"The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool."
Read quote
16 likes
"If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you."
Read quote
16 likes
"A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master."
Read quote
16 likes
"Married love burns as fire, and seeks nothing more than the mate. It says, "I want only you""
Read quote
16 likes
"Tomorrow we will only give them a leaf of the tree of our love, a leaf which will fall on the earth like if it had been made by our lips like a kiss which falls from our invincible heights to show the fire and the tenderness of a true love."
Read quote
15 likes
"This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green, Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes, Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes. I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration, Faces of people streaming across my gaze."
Read quote
15 likes
"The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success"
Read quote
15 likes
"Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is amongst them the gentler fire of the ruby, there is the rich purple of the amethyst, there is the sea-green of the emerald, and all shining together in an indescribable union. Others, by an excessive heightening of their hues equal all the colours of the painter, others the flame of burning brimstone, or of a fire quickened by oil."
Read quote
15 likes
"Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?"
Read quote
15 likes
"If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action."
Read quote
15 likes
"Madness such as this, its like trying to stop a fire with the moisture from a kiss"
Read quote
15 likes
"By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer"
Read quote
15 likes
"Love is the creative fire, the inspiration that keeps the torch of progress aflame."
Read quote
15 likes
"Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution."
Read quote
15 likes
"I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people."
Read quote
15 likes
"The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet."
Read quote
15 likes
"The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth."
Read quote
15 likes