“In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.”
Octavia E. Butler book Parable of the Talents
Variant: In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.
Source: Parable of the Talents
“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;
how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?" by Friedrich Nietzsche?
Friedrich Nietzsche655
German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900Related quotes
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“If you want to be a flaming youth, you must have money to burn.”
Thomas Lansing Masson (1866–1934) American journalist
Thomas Lansing Masson (1927) Tom Masson's Book of Wit & Humor. p. 1.
“You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.”
John Adams (1735–1826) 2nd President of the United States
Letter to Abigail Adams (28 April 1776)
1770s
Context: Is there no way for two friendly souls to converse together, although the bodies are 400 miles off? Yes, by letter. But I want a better communication. I want to hear your think, or to see your thoughts.
The conclusion of your letter makes my heart throb more than a cannonade would. You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.
“He'd burn the whole world down til he could dig out you of the ashes.”
Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls
Source: City of Lost Souls
Taisen Deshimaru (1914–1982) Japanese Buddhist monk
As quoted in A Galaxy Not So Far Away : Writers and Artists on Twenty-five Years of Star Wars (2002) by Glenn Kenny, p. 99
