Embers Quotes

• Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up from the faintest ember to illuminate the darkness, to burn in spite of overwhelming odds.

  Karen Hesse

  Hard Times, Odds, Illumination

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• So she searches for light, only to realize it's in her, like an ember equipped to ignite.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Light, Opaque, Realizing

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• Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

  James A. Baldwin

  Work, Men, Fire

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• Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.

  Stephen King

  Sometimes, Campfire

  Stephen King (2016). “Coffey's Hands”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes an ember is all we need.

  Bear Grylls

  Needs, Sometimes

  Bear Grylls (2011). “Mud, Sweat and Tears”, p.180, Random House

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• And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Dying, Ghost, Bleak

  "The Raven" l. 7 (1845)

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• Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

  John Milton

  Light, Glowing, Rooms

  "Il Penseroso" l. 79 (1645)

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• No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Grief, Fall, Loss

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• We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

  William Shatner

  Fire, Ashes

  Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. April 18, 2012.

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• You see, women are like fires, like flames. Some women are like candles, bright and friendly. Some are like single sparks, or embers, like fireflies for chasing on summer nights. Some are like campfires, all light and heat for a night and willing to be left after. Some women are like hearthfires, not much to look at but underneath they are all warm red coal that burns a long, long while.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Summer, Women, Firefly

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• I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.

  Charles Bukowski

  Night, Voice, Fire

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• Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.

  Willie Nelson

  Love, Memories, Dying

  Song: Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain

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• Time takes life away
  and gives us memory, gold with flame,
  black with embers.

  Adam Zagajewski

  Memories, Flames, Giving

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• I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.

  Thomas Paine

  Flames, Shining, Liberty

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• Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day

  Thomas Overbury

  Next Day, Fire, Coal

  Sir Thomas Overbury (1756). “The Miscellaneous Works in Verse and Prose of Sir Thomas Overbury, Knt. with Memoirs of His Life”, p.252

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• I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Death, Condolences

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Outre-Mer - A Pilgrimage Beyond The Sea (Annotated Edition)”, p.8, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost . The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.

  Walt Whitman

  Thinking, Fire, Flames

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• The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the ashes. And when we have learned what we need to learn and have brought with us the best that we have experienced, then we look ahead; we remember that faith is always pointed toward the future.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Past, Glowing, Needs

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• Encouragement is awesome. Think about it. It has the capacity to lift a man's or a woman's shoulders. To breathe fresh air into the fading embers of a smoldering dream. To actually change the course of another human being's day, week, or life.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Dream, Encouragement, Thinking

  Charles R. Swindoll (1993). “Encourage Me”, p.97, Harper Collins

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• Give me a hot coal glowing bright red, Give me an ember sizzling with heat, These are the jewels made from my beak. We fly between the flames and never get singed We plunge through the smoke and never cringe. The secrets of fire, its strange winds, its rages, We know it all as it rampages Through forests, through canyons, Up hillsides and down. We track it. We'll find it. Take coals by the pound. We'll yarp in the heart of the hottest flame Then bring back its coals an make them tame. For we are the colliers brave and beyond all We are the owls of the colliering chaw!

  Kathryn Lasky

  Heart, Fire, Glowing

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• I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart.

  Neil Peart

  Believe, Heart, Burning

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• Even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Belief, Blazing, Discipleship

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• All great leaders since Moses have known that a feared enemy must be crushed completely. (Sometimes they have learned this the hard way.) If one ember is left alight, no matter how dimly it smolders, a fire will eventually break out. More is lost through stopping halfway than through total annihilation: The enemy will recover, and will seek revenge. Crush him, not only in body but in spirit.

  Robert Greene

  Crush, Revenge, Fire

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• Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.

  Rene Char

  Heart, Winter, Bird

  René Char (2004). “This Smoke that Carried Us: Selected Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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• In the embers shining bright
  A garden grows for thy delight,
  With roses yellow, red, and white.
  But, O my child, beware, beware!
  Touch not the roses growing there,
  For every rose a thorn doth bear.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Children, Garden, Yellow

  Richard Watson Gilder (1885). “Lyrics”

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