The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.
Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched.
Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.
For the years, he felt, had not quenched his soul, or hers.
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.
Revenge is like a ghost. . . It takes over every man it touches. . . Its thirst cannot be quenched. . . Until the last man standing has fallen.
And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.
The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy, however otherwise insipid, by which it may be quenched.
Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire
Those whose own light is quenched are often the light-bringers.
Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.
Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still travelling downward from the sky,Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,For years beyond our ken,The light he leaves behind him liesUpon the paths of men.
That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.
