“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through… But one thing is certain. You will rise from the ash.”
— Maya Angelou
“Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun;
Thyself from thine affection
Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye
All lesser birds will take their jollity.
Up, up, fair bride, and call
Thy stars from out their several boxes, take
Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make
Thyself a constellation of them all;
And by their blazing signify
That a great princess falls, but doth not die.
Be thou a new star, that to us portends
Ends of much wonder; and be thou those ends.”― John Donne, “ The Complete English Poems”
“’Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?’
‘Hmm . . . What do you think, Harry?’ said Luna, looking thoughtful.”– J.K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”
“There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. He must have been the first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we’re doing the same thing, over and over, but we’ve got one damn thing the phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just did. We know all the damn silly things we’ve done for a thousand years…”
— Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451”
“A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.”
— Rumi
“In order to rise / From its own ashes / A phoenix / First / Must / Burn.”
— Octavia E. Butler, “Parable of the Talents”
“Our passions are, in truth, like the phoenix; when the old one burns away, the new one rises out of its ashes at once.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune’s spite; revive from ashes and rise.”
~ Miguel de Cervantes
“When fame’s loud trump hath blown its noblest blast,
Though long the sound, the echo sleeps at last;
And glory, like the phoenix midst her fires,
Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.”– Lord Byron, “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers”
“I’m Phoenix. If I die it’s only to be reborn — hopefully better and brighter than before.”
– Chris Claremont, “Excalibur: The Sword is Drawn”
