Quenched

Famous quotes containing the word quenched:

“Only if loves fire with the breath
Of life be kindled, I doubt,
With our last air ‘twill be breath’d out,
And quenched with the cold of death.”
—Edward Herbert (1583–1648)

“My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled,
Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun,
All felled, felled, are all felled;”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

“Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.”
—Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.)