Fire Symbolism Quotes

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

It was a pleasure to burn.

The wildlings seemed to think Ygritte a great beauty because of her hair; red hair was rare among the free folk, and those who had it were said to be kissed by fire, which was supposed to be lucky.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

I see candles as varied things. They give a warm glow, and fire purifies.

Name Yellow Wolf comes from life experiences. Yellow is the color of the sun - its power, fire, and hunger. Wolf represents my fierceness and ability to survive.

At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.

Fire had an almost magical quality that suggested anything was possible. Early on, man even believed that fire was a god that had to be fed with animal sacrifices in order to burn brightly. Today we have evolved a long way from this ridiculous notion of a 'fire god' and now rightfully understand God to be a bearded being who lives amongst the clouds and hates Jews and homosexuals.

God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning.

I only believe in fire. Life. Fire. Being myself on fire I set others on fire. Never death. Fire and life.

The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.

For the heavenly fire no longer strikes depraved cities, it is rather the lens which cuts through ordinary reality like a laser, putting it to death.

I like the color red because it's a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire.

Outer fire we need to cook. Inner fire we need to liberate. God's Fire we need to love.

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire.

The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.

That's what I love about fire, how it would kill me as quick as anybody else. How it can't know I'm its mother. It's so beautiful and powerful and beyond feeling anything for anybody, that's what I love about fire.

The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves.

Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.

Fire is the Sun unwinding from the tree's log.

Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and space exploration. The fire he stole can be seen, too, as the spark generating all artistic creativity.