“But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering”
Source: City of Fallen Angels
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“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.”
Source: Heart of Darkness
“The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.”
Source: Meditations
Simon, pg. 224
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
“The fire blazing in her dark and injured heart seemed to glow around her like a flame.”
Source: The Beautiful and Damned
Biomedical Ethics and Jewish Law http://www.myjewishlearning.com/ideas_belief/bioethics/Bioethics_Euthanasia_TO/Bioethics_EuthanMedi_Rosner.htm, published by KTAV http://www.ktav.com/
Context: One who is in a dying condition is regarded as a living person in all respects. It is not permitted to bind his jaws, to stop up the organs of the lower extremities, or to place metallic or cooling vessels upon his navel in order to prevent swelling. He is not to be rubbed or washed, nor is sand or salt to be put upon him until he expires. He who touches him is guilty of shedding blood. To what may he be compared? To a flickering flame, which is extinguished as soon as one touches it. Whoever closes the eyes of the dying while the soul is about to depart is shedding blood. One should wait a while; perhaps he is only in a swoon.
“Vital spark of heav'nly flame!
Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame”
Stanza 1.
The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712)
Context: Vital spark of heav'nly flame!
Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying,
Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!
