„you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?“

— Friedrich Nietzsche
„In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.“
— Octavia E. Butler
„Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.“
— Winston S. Churchill
„He'd burn the whole world down til he could dig out you of the ashes.“
— Cassandra Clare
„If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also, you will have betrayed your community in failing to make your contribution.“
— Rollo May
„When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.“
— Jodi Picoult