Phoenix Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old phoenix quotes, phoenix sayings, and phoenix proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

No matter how many times we burst into flames, we can always rise from the ashes. Anonymous
Like a phoenix from the ashes, they may defeat you, burn you, insult you, injure you, and abandon you. But they will not, shall not, and cannot destroy you. For you, like Rome, were built on ashes, and you, like a phoenix, know how to resurrect. Nikita Gill
Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams. S. A. Sachs
Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes. Jens Lekman
And God help you if you are a phoenix, and you dare to rise up from the ash. A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past. Ani DiFranco
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. Anne Baxter
The wild woman rises like a phoenix from the ashes of her life, to become the heroine of her own legend. Shikoba
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall. Confuscious
And when all that was left was ashes, she would again clothe herself in flame. Rising from the dust of her past to rekindle the spark of her future. She was a Phoenix, her own salvation; rebirthed, renewed, resurrected. LaRhonda Toreson
Whether we remain the ash or become the Phoenix is up to us. Ming-Dao Deng
Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost. Neil Gaiman
Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person. Gerard Way
Sometimes you just have to die a little inside in order to be reborn and rise again as a stronger and wiser version of you. Anonymous
What matters most is how well you walk through the fire. Charles Bukowski
The phoenix must burn to emerge. Janet Fitch
Often it's the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self. Karen Salmansohn
Our passion ignites us. Rapture spawns the inferno in which we perish, entwined. From smoldering coals we are formed and, from our ashes, we rise. Discovered in the aftermath, our memory, our birth scars; third degree madness. Identical imperfections. Forever branded. Lennon Hodson
In order to rise from its own ashes, a phoenix first must burn. Octavia Butler
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
Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You may kill a fire. And everything you know falls to dust and ash. Yet the remarkable treasure in this seemingly hopeless pile, is hidden deep within. The burning embers incarnate the perpetual desire to go from spark to flame. Akilnathan Logeswaran
From the ashes, a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring. J.R.R. Tolkien
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rises above its own ashes. Khalil Gibran
Suffering can lead to transformation. And redemption. And marvelous mystery. Dr. Allen Hunt
Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive. Cassandre Clare
Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge. Janet Fitch
If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix. Hunter S. Thompson
Once you’ve had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix. Sharon Stone
The phoenix. The gentlest and most wonderful of its kind. Mesmerizing beauty and brillant colour. Its cry synonymous to a lovely song. But comes time, consumes itself in its own magnificent flame. And from its own ashes, will rise and reborn anew. Kahit Minsan
Here in this suffering, all previous beliefs are called into question. They are consumed in the fire sparked and fueled by our own illusion. The pain becomes the ashes we are now entombed in. It is only when we find ourselves at this most imprisoned of junctures that we emerge again, the phoenix of our very life which is ever so much more beautiful than the last one. Teal