„It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.“

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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„One fire burns out another's burning,One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish.“
— William Shakespeare
„A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.“
— Jack Kerouac
„Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn“
— Shams-i Tabrizi
„She could understand suddenly why people talked about passion as fire: She felt as if they had caught aflame and were burning like the dry Malibu hills, about to become ashes that would mix together forever.“
— Cassandra Clare
„Pain is to be endured. It ends or it does not.“
— Jim Butcher
„The fire of hell is called eternal, only because it never ends. Still, there is change in the pains of the lost…Hence in hell true eternity does not exist, but rather time.“
— Thomas Aquinas