75 Powerful Fire Quotes That Will Leave You Burning For More (2021)

Fire is a chemical process that has the potential to be destructive. It could burn through everything in its path, leaving behind 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, and 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 when we lived in tents or dwellings with little insulation, people would succumb to the cold.

Also, eating raw meat led to illness amongst our ancestors, and the ability to cook our food. Check out these fire quotes about burning and being warm.

Burning fire quotes

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

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

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. “Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.” — Jerry Smith

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

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

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

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

18. “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

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

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

Witty fire quotes

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

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. “One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn’t have a fireplace.” — Victor Borge

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

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

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

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

54. “Don’t see a fire burning your skin but letting the new skin underneath shining out.” – Rahul Bansal

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. “Love in its essence is spiritual fire.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

61. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” — William Butler Yeats

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

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

64. “Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.” — Maya Angelou

65. “Of all the fires, love is the only inexhaustible one.” – Pablo Neruda

fire quotes that will ignite your passion for life

66. “A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” ― Madeleine L’Engle

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

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. “Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn – to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise…” ― Emma Thompson

74. “Live your life. It’s yours anyway. Don’t try too hard. It’s okay to lose.”― Bangtan Boys

75. “The world’s flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:
eat less of it, for it is full of fire.
Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest,
but its smoke becomes visible in the end. ”
― Rumi Jalalu’l-Din

Which of these fire quotes resonated with you best?

As noted in some of these quotes, fire is also a term used to define 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 are enjoying time in the wilderness, fire can lead someone who is lost in the woods to your safe 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? Answer either of those questions in the comment section below.