“I'm a fire without a flame, desert with no rain…”
Mike Oldfield (1953) English musician, multi-instrumentalist
Song lyrics, Heaven's Open (1991)
“An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
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Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995Related quotes
Amors sanz crieme et sans peor
Est feus sanz flame et sanz chalor,
Jorz sanz soloil, bresche sanz miel,
Estez sans flor, iverz sanz giel,
Ciaus sanz lune, livres sanz letre.
Cligès, line 3893.
Terry Pratchett book Jingo
Variant: Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Source: Jingo
“Can a man who's warm understand one who's freezing?”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn book One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Source: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)
“The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
“The fire's hottest for the one who burns himself.”
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Jón Hreggviðsson
Íslandsklukkan (Iceland's Bell) (1946), Part I: Iceland's Bell
“Just as camphor is consumed by the flames of fire, so also, mind must be consumed by soul-fire.”
Bhagawan Nityananda (1897–1961) Hindu guru and saint
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The Chidakasha Gita (1927)
“Bright-flaming, heat-full fire,
The source of motion.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
First Week, Second Day. Compare: "Heat considered as a Mode of Motion" (title of a treatise, 1863), John Tyndall.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
“Fire tries gold, misfortune tries brave men.”
Ignis aurum probat, miseria fortes uiros.
Seneca the Younger Moral Essays
De Providentia (On Providence): cap. 5, line 9
Alternate translation: Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. (translator unknown).
Moral Essays
“I like warming my butt by the fire.”
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
The Osbournes television show