Fire Quotes

What is there about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it? It's perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did. Or almost perpetual motion. If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out.
What is fire? It's a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it.

The fire was not burning; it was warming!... He hadn't known fire could look this way.

Fahrenheit 451: The temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns.

...fire does not destroy, it hardens.

A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o’-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairylands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds.

He hadn't known fire could look this way. He had never thought in his life that it could give as well as take.

It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.

And as before, it was good to burn, he felt himself gush out in the fire, snatch, rend, rip in half with flame, and put away the senseless problem. If there was no solution, well then now there was no problem, either. Fire was best for everything!

Did you know it takes a fire of at least sixteen-hundred degrees lasting seven hours to consume the average human body?