Ember Quotes

She realized all at once that Doon, thin, dark eyed Doon, with his troublesome temper and his terrible brown jacket, and his good heart---- was the person she knew better than anyone now. He was her best friend.
--City of Ember. (Jeanne DuPrau)

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Edgar Allan Poe

Pity him who lives at home Happy with his life, Without a dream, a flexing of wings, To make him relinquish Even the warmest ember of his hearth! Pity him who is happy! He lives because life lasts. Nothing within him whispers More than the primeval law: That life leads to the grave.

Fernando Pessoa

Sweetheart we're alone And you are mine. Let's make this night a night to remember. Don't make our love a cold dying ember, For with the dawn, you'll be gone.

Elvis Presley

I'll thank thee when approaching death Would quench life's feeble ember, For thou wouldst even renew my breath With thy sweet word 'Remember'!

Branwell Brontë

I Think it is lost..... but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost. The body sluggish, aged, cold, the ember left from earlier fires shall duly flame again.

Walt Whitman

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

James A. Forbes

The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.

Sonia Sotomayor

In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. Moon at night. Willow. Window. Candlelight. Fallow farrow. Ash and oak. Bide and borrow. Chimney smoke. Barrel. Barley. Stone and stave. Wind and water. Misbehave.

Patrick Rothfuss