Federico Garcia Lorca Quotes

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

You can't put out fire with fire.

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

Cause I lit him on fire,” I shrugged and brushed dust from my pants.

If everyone fought fire with fire, the whole world would go up in smoke.

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

The fuses had been lit and could not be extinguished. All that remained was to observe the speed of the spark, and the size of the explosions.

That night it felt that somehow by flicking them off the roof, the matches would burn down everything, the sparks from the tips of the flames, torching the world and all the heartbroken people in it.

They haven't killed us yet," I say, and I imagine that one day I will fly a plane over Portland, over Rochester, over every fenced-in city in the whole country, and I will bomb and bomb and bomb, and watch all their buildings smoldering to dust, and all those people melting and bleeding into flame, and I will see how they like it. If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames.

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.

It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.

I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.

Let's blow some stuff up.

I fought fire with oil.

We will fuck him. Do you hear me? We will fuck him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever fucked him!

He's changed from the hatchet man to the chain saw man.

Cut off their heads! Burn their houses down!

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

The violent will not come to a natural end.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

War nourishes war.

There are worse things than war.