Phoenix quotes
111 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Someone's dead," said Malfoy, and his voice seemed to go up an octave as he said it. "One of your people...I don't know who, it was dark...I stepped over the body...I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way."
"I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way...” “Yes, they do that,” said Dumbledore."
"In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn."
"I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists."
"Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes."
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"Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost."
"Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us."
"If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix."
"Myths that need clarification: "No matter how many times you see the Grand canyon, you are still emotionally moved to tears." False. It depends on how many children the out-of-towners brought with them who kicked the back of your seat from Phoenix to Flagstaff and got their gum caught in your hair."
"One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis."
"And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes."
"Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes."
"Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes."
"Once you've had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix."
"The Phoenix riddle hath more wit By us, we two being one, are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love."
"Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song."
"When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss."
"I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day."
"And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day."
"I remember every wand I’ve ever sold, Mr. Potter. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather — just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother — why, its brother gave you that scar."
"Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes."
"The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through."
"Some people say that you should go to all the parties, to the nightclubs, the Viper Room, and make contacts, and I look at them and say, 'You don't want to have contacts with those people.' Look at what happened to River Phoenix [who died in 1993 of a drug overdose outside the Viper Room]. If you get caught up in that, it ruins you. Hollywood is garbage."
"She says I am not fair, that I lack manners; She calls me proud, and that she could not love me, Were man as rare as Phoenix."
"Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires."
