Phoenix Quotes

• It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

  Anne Baxter

  Inspiring, Failure, Bird

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• Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Ashes

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• In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

  Octavia Butler

  Order, Ashes, Firsts

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.309, Open Road Media

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• The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Uplifting, Hope, Sky

  "The Book of the Bizarre: Freaky Facts & Strange Stories". Book by Varla Ventura (p. 46), 2008.

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• Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Ashes, Burnt Out

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• Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.

  Marianne Williamson

  Pain, Self, Rising Up

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.74, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.

  Neil Gaiman

  Doe, Lost, Descending

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• A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.

  Rumi

  Love, Attitude, Heart

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• And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

  Khalil Gibran

  Passion, Ashes, May

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• The phoenix must burn to emerge.

  Janet Fitch

  Inspiring, Failure, Rebirth

  Janet Fitch (2006). “White Oleander”, p.325, Hachette UK

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• Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Bird, Ashes

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 5, sc. 5, l. 40

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• I can feel a phoenix inside of me. I can see the heavens but I still hear the flames calling out my name.

  Katy Perry

  Flames, Names, Heaven

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• The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through.

  May Sarton

  Pain, Wings, Trying

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

  Bess Myerson

  Ashes

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• Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Ashes, Rising

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• I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.

  Saul Bellow

  Running, Arsonists

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• Once you've had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix.

  Sharon Stone

  Take Time, It Takes Time

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• Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that the music was inside him, not without: It was his own grief turned magically to song.

  J. K. Rowling

  Song, Grief, Darkness

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• Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.

  Janet Fitch

  Artist, Past, Cherish

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• We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.

  Pam Muñoz Ryan

  Rising, New Life, Said

  Pam Muñoz Ryan (2012). “Esperanza Rising”, p.37, Scholastic Inc.

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• Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds will take their jollity. Up, up, fair bride, and call Thy stars from out their several boxes, take Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make Thyself a constellation of them all; And by their blazing signify That a great princess falls, but doth not die. Be thou a new star, that to us portends Ends of much wonder; and be thou those ends.

  John Donne

  Stars, Princess, Fall

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Ashes, Burn Out

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.761, Delphi Classics

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• Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” "...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning." "Well reasoned.

  J. K. Rowling

  Thinking, Flames, Circles

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• God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash
  a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past

  Ani DiFranco

  Eye, Past, Flying

  Song: 32 Flavors

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• Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix will soar from her nest of fire into the air. We shall lay our hands upon the basilisk, and see the jewel in the toad's head. Champing his gilded oats, the Hippogriff will stand in our stalls, and over our heads will float the Blue Bird singing of beautiful and impossible things, of things that are lovely and that never happen, of things that are not and that should be.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Fire, Impossible Things

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