Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
The Ultimate Sin, written by Robert John Daisley, Ozzy Osbourne, John Osbourne, Jake Williams, Robert Daisley
Song lyrics, The Ultimate Sin (1986)
“The flame-appointed pyre.”
Source: Thebaid, Book VI, Line 55 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
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“Wait for the appointed hour.”
Iamblichus (240–320) Syrian philosopher
As quoted in The Lives of the Sophists by Eunapius ( online exerpt http://www.goddess-athena.org/Encyclopedia/Friends/Iamblichus/index.htm)
Ruhollah Khomeini (1902–1989) Religious leader, politician
Speech at Behesht Zahra cemetery (1 February 1979), condemning the government of Shapour Bakhtiar
“One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.”
Anne Rice The Tale of the Body Thief
Source: The Tale of the Body Thief
“Flames were rising from the waters and in the flames a blue man lived.”
Black Elk (1863–1950) Oglala Lakota leader
Black Elk Speaks (1961)
“Flame unto flame shall flow and be
Within thy heart and mine as one.”
George William Russell (1867–1935) Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
By Still Waters (1906)
Context: When the lips I breathed upon
Asked for such love as equals claim
I looked where all the stars were gone
Burned in the day's immortal flame.
"Come thou like yon great dawn to me
From darkness vanquished, battles done:
Flame unto flame shall flow and be
Within thy heart and mine as one.".
“A well-appointed prison is still a prison.”
Kameron Hurley (1980) American writer
Source: God’s War (2011), Chapter 4 (p. 42).
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 570
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation