#Fire Quotes

“What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it?...The thing man wanted to invent, but never did...If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences.”

“It was a pleasure to burn.”

“Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.”

“The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers.”

“Fire is the most tolerable third party”

“Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot; fry them, boil them and eat them hot?”

“We circle in the night and we are devoured by fire.”

“This world... ever was, and is, and shall be, ever-living Fire, in measures being kindled and in measures going out.”

“This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.”

“There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.”