194 Fire Quotes to Leave You Burning For More

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Fire is a chemical process that has the potential to be destructive.

In 2020, 1,291,500 fires in the United States resulted in 3,420 deaths and 16,600 injuries.

These numbers underscore the critical need for fire safety and prevention measures to protect people and property.

What are the benefits of reading these fire quotes?

It could burn through everything in its path, leaving only charred remnants of what was.

We have seen that repeatedly in wildfires.

Where once was a lush forest of green, we are left with:

• smokey ash
• dead wildlife
• smoke billowing in the air we breathe

These fires also have the potential to destroy homes and businesses.

Keep reading through these fire quotes to learn more about fire in nature.

Fire is also one of man’s most life-changing discoveries.

It gave us the ability to stay warm and cook our food.

This helped us live longer because people would succumb to the cold when we lived in tents or dwellings with little insulation.

Also, eating raw meat led to illness amongst our ancestors, and the ability to cook our food was a noteworthy change.

Check out these fire quotes about burning and being warm.

Burning fire quotes

According to the World Health Organization, burnout is now officially recognized as a syndrome resulting from chronic workplace stress.

Embracing inner fire can help you avoid burnout and maintain a healthy work-life balance.

1. “Fire that’s closest kept burns most of all.” — William Shakespeare

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2. “The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them.” — Chinese Proverb

3. “If you play with fire, you’re gonna get burned.” — Bam Bam Bigelow

4. “This is how the fire starts. This is how we burn.” — Libba Bray

5. “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however, hidden.” — Cormac McCarthy

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6. “Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.” — George Bernard Shaw

7. “The sacred fire is faith.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

8. “Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.” — Buddha

9. “Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn – exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.” — Otto Weininger

10. “I am building a fire, and every day I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.” — Mia Hamm

Fire quotes that make us stronger

A study by the University of Pennsylvania found that people who have a strong sense of purpose are more likely to succeed in achieving their goals.

Embracing your inner fire can help you tap into that sense of purpose.

11. “Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.” — Martha Graham

12. “What fire does not destroy, it hardens.” — Oscar Wilde

13. “The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.” — Richard M. Nixon

14. “Fire is never a gentle master.” — Proverb

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15. “What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” — Charles Bukowski

16. “One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.” — John Foster

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17. “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.” — Joan Crawford

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18. “I had so much fire in me and so many plans.” – Claude Monet

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19. “Courage is fire and bullying is smoke.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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20. “The only real security is the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.” — Audrey Sutherland

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Witty fire quotes

21. “Fire in the heart sends smoke into the head.” — Proverb

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22. “Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy.” — Proverb

23. “Where there is smoke, there is fire.” — Proverb

24. “People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.” — Abigail Van Buren

25. “It takes two flints to make a fire.” — Louisa May Alcott

26. “To love is to burn—to be on fire.” – Jane Austen

27. “Tampering with fire will burn you, even in the coldest regions.”― H.S. Crow

28. “Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.” — Jean-Michel Basquiat

29. “A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.” — Robert Herrick

30. “When the heart is a fire, some sparks will fly out of the mouth.” – Thomas Fuller

31. “When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.” — Dylan Thomas

Fire quotes that deal with elements of nature

32. “As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.” — William Shakespeare

33. “The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.” — Henry David Thoreau

34. “Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.” — Susanne Katherina Langer

35. “One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.” — Odell Shepherd

36. “Big fires flare-up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in undercover.” — St Francis de Sales

37. “The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.” — Elisabeth Elliot

38. “No one needs to light a fire under you when there’s a fire in you.”― Richie Norton

39. “I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.” — William Lloyd Garrison

40. “Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.” — Roy L. Smith

41. “A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.” — Charles Bukowski

Inspirational fire quotes to feed your inner flame

42. “A small spark can start a great fire.” — Emmet Fox

43. “Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.” — Terry Pratchett

44. “The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.” — Ferdinand Foch

45. “Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” — Rumi

46. “Become the person you were meant to be, light your inner fire and follow your heart’s desire.” — Leon Brown.

47. “Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away.” — Rumi

48. “Do not let your fire go out.” — Ayn Rand

49. “Fire does transform, but the fire within is always better than fire beneath!” – Harrish Sairaman

50. “The fires of suffering become the light of consciousness.” — Eckhart Tolle

51. “The fire doesn’t make you what you are; it reveals what you were.” – Jack Hyles

52. “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” – Plutarch

53. “A small match lights a big fire.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

54. “Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.” —Seneca

55. “Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.” – Amit Ray

Fire quotes that will make you burn for life

56. “Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.” — Bernard Williams

57. “Time is the fire in which we burn.” — Gene Roddenberry

58. “We all can touch the flame – but it’s the moments we remain in it that burn us.”― Laura Chouette

59. “Light a fire which shows who you really are.”― Rajas Dhamija

60. “Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.” — John Wesley

61. “Little sparks cause fires too.” ― Tomasz Jedrowski

62. “To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.” — Victor Hugo

63. “To those who do not know that the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.” – Bertolt Brecht

64. “A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.” — Isaac Asimov

65. “It’s the spark that ignites the flame, spontaneity.” ― A.D. Aliwat

Fire quotes that will ignite your passion for life

66. “Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!” — Thomas Carlyle

67. “Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can’t strike them all by ourselves.” ― Laura Esquivel

68. “She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.” ― Charles Bukowski

69. “I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.” ― Sarah J. Maas

70. “I walk into the fire always, and come out more alive.”― Anaïs Nin

71. “There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.” ― Siddharta Gautama

72. “Fire and water looked so lovely together. It was a pity they destroyed each other by nature.” ― R.F. Kuang

73. “Keep a fire burning; a fire is what saves you.”― Rory Power

74. “The fire must not go out. The flame must be lit.”― Lailah Gifty Akita

75. “We are all flames waiting to be fed.”― Arti Manani

Short Hot Fire Quotes

76. “The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.” — Billy Wilder

77. “Those who deny the science or choose excuses over action are playing with fire.” — John F. Kerry

78. “Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.” — Mark Twain

79. “Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.” — Arnold Glascow

80. “A spark of every fire we seek is already within us.” — Kamand Kojouri

81. “When the winter comes, fire becomes a king!” — Mehmet Murat ildan

82. “Light the fire within you to light the world with your fire.” — P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

83. “The proof of gold is fire, the proof of woman, gold; the proof of man, a woman.” — Benjamin Franklin

84. “Fire is the most tolerable third party.” — Henry David Thoreau

85. “Your own property is concerned when your neighbor’s house is on fire.” — Horace

Fire Quotes To Keep You Going No Matter The conditions

86. “The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.” — Cus D’Amato

87. “The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.” — Christian Nestell Bovee

88. “Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.” — Delmore Schwartz

89. “We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.” — Dwight L. Moody

90. “Genius is talent set on fire by courage.” — Henry Van Dyke

91. “Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.” — Jean de La Fontaine

92. “I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.” — Cameron Conaway

93. “To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.” — Pablo Neruda

94. “Always, always you pass through fire to reach the shining.” — Odysseas Elytis

95. “When a picture isn’t realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!” — Paul Cezanne

Fire Quotes To Light Up Your Spirit

96. “To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.” ― Virginia Woolf

97. “If the fire in your heart is strong enough, it will burn away any obstacles that come your way.” ― Suzy Kassem

98. “A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart.” ― William Shakespeare

99. “No man may earn his heart’s desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire.” ― Nicholas Evans

100. “A child is not a vase to be filled, but a fire to be lit.” ― Francois Rabelais

101. “If we see you smoking we will assume you are on fire and take appropriate action.” ― Douglas Adams

102. “The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.” ― Edmund Burke

103. “Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth… It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.” ― Michael O’Brien

104. “I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.” ― Mark Hoppus

105. “Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.” ― George Eliot

Fire quotes about life

106. “When you have been burned by fire once, you don’t leap into the flames again.”― Jodi Picoult

107. “The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.”― Pierre Corneille

108. “Fire is always ready to burn the hand it warms.”― Rachel Caine

109. “When the heart is on fire, light comes from within.”― Tania Silva

110. “Not everything set on fire will rise.”― Darnell Lamont Walker

111. “Stop setting yourself on fire for people who just stand to watch you burn.”― Nadège Richards

112. “Fire isn’t always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.”― Jim Butcher

113. “There’s nothing wrong with the fire.. if you don’t get too close.”― Becca Fitzpatrick

114. “Fire is one of our best friends in this cold universe. Put some wood in it to show your gratitude.”― Mehmet Murat ildan

115. “Maybe fire and kerosene don’t go together for a reason.”― Dannika Dark

Fire Quotes To Ignite Your Soul

116. “We feel free when we escape – even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.” — Eric Hoffer

117. “Love, like fire, goes out without fuel.” ― Mikhail Lermontov

118. “The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire.” — Carl Jung

119. “Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” ― Gustav Mahler

120. “God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm.” ― Hafez

121. “Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it.” — Mary Lou Retton

122. “Love is friendship set on fire.” — Jeremy Taylor

123. “Heat makes things expand; that is why life sometimes throws us into a fiery furnace.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

124. “The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.” —  Marcus Aurelius

125. “Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.” — Jorge Luis Borges

Fire Quotes To Give You Courage

126. “Walking through this life really is walking through fire.” — Chaka Khan

127. Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.” — Lord Byron

128. “God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize.” — Sam Storms

129. “Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add fire to fire.” — Plato

130. “I don’t have the fire in the belly right now. It’s one of those been there, done that deals.” — Steve Largent

131. “Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.” — Francis Bacon

132. “A heart well worth winning, and well won. A heart that, once won, goes through fire and water for the winner, and never changes, and is never daunted.” — Charles Dickens

133. “Love is the only fire that is hot enough to melt the iron obstinacy of a creatures’s will.” — Alexander MacLaren

134. “There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.” — John Lyly

135. “A crooked log makes a strait fire.” — George Herbert

Fire Quotes For The Most Important  Life Changing Discovery

136.  “She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.” — Neil Gaiman

137.  “You can’t start a fire without a spark.”  —  Bruce Springsteen

138.  “The most tangible of all visible mysteries – fire.” — Leigh Hunt

139. “Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes.” ― Andrea Gibson

140. “Everything burns…you just gotta know what kind of fire to set.” ― Obie Williams

141. “A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration.” — Quintus Curtius Rufus

142. “To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.” —  Charles Dudley Warner

143. “Fire is bright and fire is clean.” ― Ray Bradbury

144. “The control of fire and the practice of cooking are human universals.” ― Richard W. Wrangham

145. “Animals need food, water and shelter. We humans need all those things, but we need fire too.” ― Richard W. Wrangham

Fire Quotes For When it Gets Hotter

146. “Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.” ― Ludwig van Beethoven

147. “Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.” ― Dante Alighieri

148. “Man is the only creature that dares to light a fire and live with it. The reason? Because he alone has learned to put it out.” ― Henry Jackson Vandyke

149. “The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.” ― Martin Puryear

150. “O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.” ― William Shakespeare

151. “If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.” ― Robert Fulghum

152. “Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffer’d, it will set the heart on fire.” ― William Shakespeare

153. “Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.” ― E. E. Cummings

154. “A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.” ― Benjamin Franklin

155. “The sun’s a thief, and with his great attraction Robs the vast seas. The moon’s an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun.” ― William Shakespeare

Fire Quotes About Flames of Wisdom

156. The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.” ― Joseph Campbell

157. “Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone.” ― Bob Teague

158. “Fire destroys that which feeds it.” ― Simone Weil

159. “Man needs color to live; it’s just as necessary an element as fire and water.” ― Fernand Leger

160. “I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.” ― Antonio Machado

161. “If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.” ― George Stillman Hillard

162. “Let’s kick the tires and light the fires, big daddy.” ― Harry Connick, Jr.

163. “Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.” ― Patti Smith

164. “Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!” ― Suzanne Collins

165. “Make sure that the beer – four pints a week – goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.” ― Winston Churchill

Fire Quotes From Embers to Infernos

166. “The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.” ― Cyprian

167. “I’m cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.” ― Andy Goldsworthy

168. “We’ve got a bad fire let’s get out . . . We’re burning up.” ― Roger B. Chaffee

169. “Untested faith was rarely strong. Deep, abiding faith was tempered through fire.” ― Robin Lee

170. “Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out.” ― Robin Oliveira

171. “I want to be someone’s everything. I want fire and passion, and love that’s returned, equally. I want to be someone’s heart.” ― S.C. Stephens

172. “Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don’t hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.” ― Shane Black

173. “I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.” ― Bill Ayers

174. “I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, ‘Iron to the Fire.’ I like to keep several things going at once.” ― Creed Bratton

175. “Kept his locker full of weed just to satisfy his smoking needs and his love of fire.” ― Todd Rundgren

Captivating Fire Quotes That Illuminate the Soul

176. “I’m on a higher plane with brain with a flame, feel the fire, desire the same.” ― Kool Moe Dee

177. “Dreams die hard and we watch them erode, but we cannot be denied the fire inside.” ― Bob Seger

178. “Waiting for wisdom to open the cage, we forged in the fires of the innocent age.” ― Dan Fogelberg

179. There’s a fire that burns away the lies, manifesting in the spiritual eye.” ― George Harrison

180. “If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!” ― Jean Nouvel

181. “I’m probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.” ― Jamie Oliver

182. “I’m on fire when I’m singing, I’m completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It’s a very special thing.” ― Sinead O’Connor

183. “I’ve lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.” ― Billy Joel

184. “Under the skin, intense fires burn.” ― Charles de Lint

185. “Losing your love hurts more than playing with fire.” ― Leydi Morfa

186. “… the house is on fire, but go ahead – finish painting the verandah…” ― John Geddes

187. “Looking at the fire on the stone.” ― Daae ALF

188. “And he didn’t get tired or sleepy, for the beauty burned in him like fire.” ― John Steinbeck

189. “Light a campfire and everyone’s a storyteller” ― john j geddes

190. “If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire” ― C.S. Lewis

191. “The innovative leader has to be an arsonist and a firefighter.” ― Paul Sloane

192. “Curiosity is a strong fire, and once ignited, it is not easily put out.” ― Susan Dennard

193. “Fire. I see it everywhere.” ― Jen Wylie

194. “you are the mysterious fire at my finger tips” ― john j geddes

Which of these fire quotes resonated with you best?

As noted in some of these quotes, fire defines a person’s passion and drive.

It refers to the spark that lies within each of us.

That smoldering inspiration can be fed, like fire, until it grows bright enough to warm ourselves and others.

If you enjoy time in the wilderness, fire can lead someone lost in the woods to your haven.

The analogy of fire in the soul can have the same effect on people.

You don’t know who might be around you that is struggling and looking for a light in the darkness.

Of course, fire should be respected and treated like the dangerous weapon it can be.

It can keep you warm or burn everything down around you.

It can warm your food or melt your hand.

Burns are painful and fire needs to be watched.

Do you think that personal fire also has the same duality?

What is your favorite fire quote or saying?

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