Burning Quotes (page 6)

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• history
• old
• burned

Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents. Ray Bradbury

• giving
• manly
• hand

I can’t do nothing for you either, Billy. You know that. None of us can. You got to understand that as soon as a man goes to help somebody, he leaves himself wide open. He has to be cagey, Billy, you should know that as well as anyone. What could I do? I can’t fix your stuttering. I can’t wipe the razorblade scars off your wrists or the cigarette burns off the back of your hands. I can’t give you a new mother. And as far as the nurse riding you like this, rubbing your nose in your weakness... Ken Kesey

• alone
• manly
• man

Rocket Man, burning out his fuse up here alone. Elton John

• tears
• solitude
• except

Tears do not burn except in solitude. Emile M. Cioran

• sky
• burn
• starry sky

The lamps are burning and the starry sky is over it all. Vincent Van Gogh

• deep
• street
• headed

When I burn please bury me deep. Somewhere on West Division Street. Put a bottle beneat' my head'n a bottle beneat' my feet Nelson Algren

• life
• book
• daily

Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned. J. M. Barrie

• humanity
• touching
• hot

For a moment, sincere human fury had burned through the training, touched a hot core of genuine rage. He felt shaken, but more whole, more truly himself, then he'd been for years. Bruce Sterling

• lost
• keeps
• keep

I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake Federico Garcia Lorca

• smile
• fearless
• beautiful

Roxane: His face is like yours, burning with spirit and imagination. He is proud and noble and young and fearless and beautiful- Cyrano:(losing all his colour.) Beautiful! Roxane: Yes. What's wrong? Cyrano: With me? Nothing. It's only... only... (Displaying his bandaged hand, with a little smile.) This fatal wound. Edmond Rostand

• book
• reading
• law

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?"He laughed. "That's against the law!"Oh. Of course. Ray Bradbury

• god
• free
• may

Batter my heart, three-person'd God ; for you. As yet but knock ; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend. Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an usurp'd town, to another due, Labour to admit you, but O, to no end. Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, But is captived, and proves weak or untrue. Yet dearly I love you, and would be loved fain, But am betroth'd unto your enemy ; Divorce me, untie, or break that knot... John Donne

• dead
• best
• thoughts

Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg Pull. Apollo has the best claim, but a sizeable minority support Pluto, ex-God of the Dead, on the grounds that he has a really sick sense of humour.How would it be, suggested the unidentified god, if first we tell them all to love their neighbour, pack in the killing and thieving, and be nice to each other. Then we let them start burning heretics. Tom Holt

• world
• money
• doctor who

Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones, created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax-and-spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio, and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and everybody's high! Stephen Colbert

• wind
• leaving
• old

And now, my poor old woman, why are you crying so bitterly? It is autumn. The leaves are falling from the trees like burning tears- the wind howls. Why must you mimic them? Mervyn Peake