“Just like two pieces of wood can be rubbed together to produce fire and the same fire later consumes them both, intellect and concentration support the contemplative meditation. But when the fire of insight arises, it consumes both intellect and concentration, giving way to pristine awareness.”

“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

“And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.”

William Shakespeare book Romeo and Juliet

“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

“It is something like fire working on wood; the heat draws out all the moisture, the greenness and the heaviness. It grows warm, begins to glow, becomes more like the fire itself. As the wood slowly takes on the likeness of fire, the dissimilarity between the two grows less until finally, in a rapid movement, the fire takes from the wood its own substance; the wood becomes fire and loses at the same time its separateness and inequality, since it has become fire. No longer merely like fire, it has become one substance with the fire. Likeness is lost in union.”

Johannes Tauler (1300–1361) German theologian

“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

“If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.”

Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer

“We go about in the night and are consumed by fire.”
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni

Guy Debord (1931–1994) French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding member of the Situationist International (SI)

“Fire can warm or consume,
water can quench or drown,
wind can caress or cut.

And so it is with human relationshps;
we can both create and destroy,
nurture and terrorize,
traumatize and heal each other”

Bruce D. Perry (1955) American psychiatrist

“A fire can't burn forever. Eventually, it consumes itself.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper