2. “I’m like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.” – Bess Myerson
3. “Whether we remain the ash or become the Phoenix is up to us.”- Ming-Dao Deng
4. “Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.” –
5. “In order to rise from its own ashes, a phoenix first must burn.” – Octavia Butler
6. “A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.” –
7. “Don’t hoard the past. Don’t cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.” – Janet Fitch
8. “From a nest, a phoenix may emerge.” – Chinese Proverb
9. “Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.” – Jens Lekman
10. “I can feel a phoenix inside of me. I can see the heavens, but I still hear the flames calling out my name.” – Katy Perry
11. “If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure are that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.” – Hunter S. Thompson
12. “Who has not been amazed to learn that the function y = ex, like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, is its own derivative?” – Francois Le Lionnais
13. “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 to Man.” – Ray Bradbury
14. “But from the ashes of old humanity, new humanity shall arise like the phoenix.” – Joe Dixon
15. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confuscious
16. “Life tried to crush her, but only succeeded in creating a diamond.” – John Mark Green
17. “Fawkes is a phoenix, Harry. Phoenixes burst into flame when it is time for them to die and are reborn from the ashes.” – J.K. Rowling
18. “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
19. “And God helps 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
20. “The wild woman rises like a phoenix from the ashes of her life, to become the heroine of her own legend.” – Shikoba
21. “Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.” – Neil Gaiman
22. “Once you’ve had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix.” – Sharon Stone
23. “The phoenix. The gentlest and most wonderful of its kind. Mesmerizing beauty and brilliant color. 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
24. “Let us help the phoenix to rise from the ashes; let us help lay the foundation for a new renaissance; let us help to accelerate the spiritual awakening until it lifts us into the golden age which would come.” – Peace Pilgrim
25. “Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.” – Zygmunt Bauman
26. “Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.” – Enid Bagnold
27. “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.” –
28. “From the ashes, a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.” – Arwen
29. “For a star to be born, there is one thing that must happen: a gaseous nebula must collapse. So collapse. Crumble. This is not your destruction. This is your birth.” – Zoe Skylar
30. “Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when the bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new create another heir As great in admiration as herself.” – William Shakespeare
31. “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.” – Rabindranath Tagore
32. “Ready must thou be to burn thyself in thine own flame; how couldst thou become new if thou have not first become ashes!” – Friedrich Nietzsche
33. “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
34. “She told me she’d be a phoenix. The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. They don’t really exist. She said that depends on whether or not there’s someone who can see them.” – Jodi Picoult
35. “Madness is a regenerating thing. Like a phoenix, when one strand dies, another burns anew.” – Chris Galford
36. “If there’s no wutong tree, you’ll never attract a phoenix.” – Chinese Proverb
37. “A phoenix is a majestic and bird. While it appears healthy and happy most of the time, every, so often it must renew itself by shedding all of its feathers and bursting into flame.” – Princess Celestia
38. “Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?… I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning.” – J. K. Rowling
39. “Well, it’s named after a mythical bird, which, when it felt its life draw to a close, would build a funeral pyre, and light it by fanning its wings and then burn itself to death. But from those ashes, the phoenix would be reborn and live on another 500 years. Ancient Egyptian legend.” – Laura Collins
40. “Hope rises like a phoenix from the ashes of shattered dreams.” – S.A. Sachs
41. “Often it’s the deepest pain which empowers you to grow into your highest self.” – Karen Salmansohn
42. “Darling, you’re not falling apart. You’re getting rid of the pieces that no longer serve your purpose, this is a surgery of the spirit, and it can be painful as hell.” – Kalen Dion
43. “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
44. “Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can’t survive… it’s the thing that makes you better than you used to be.” – Jennifer Weiner
45. “She never seemed shattered; to me, she was a breathtaking mosaic of the battles she’s won.” – Matt Baker
46. “There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.” – Vilayat Inayat Khan
47. “Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise.” – Maya Angelou
48. “Like the Phoenix, I have risen from the ashes. And into my fire, you shall fall.” – Shredder
49. “We are like the phoenix, said Abuelita. Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.” – Pam Muñoz Ryan
50. “And just as the Phoenix rose from the ashes, she too will rise. Returning from the flames, clothed in nothing but her strength, more beautiful than ever before.” – Shannen Heartz
51. “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
52. “Suffering can lead to transformation. And redemption. And marvelous mystery.” – Dr. Allen Hunt
53. “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 Swan
54. “I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” – Maya Angelou
55. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Kahlil Gibra
56. “We are more than the worst thing that’s ever happened to us. All of us need to stop apologizing for having been to hell and come back breathing.” – Clementine von Radics
57. “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” – Haruki Murakami
58. “Fascinating creatures, phoenixes. They can carry immensely heavy loads, their tears have healing powers.” – J. K. Rowling
59. “You think me a boy of privilege, that I do not know pain. I have been tested by many, more powerful than you, yet here I stand. I have risen from the flames before, and I will rise in them again, a phoenix.” – Cesare Borgia
60. “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
61. “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
62. “Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
63. “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
64. “What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” –
65. “I’ve died a thousand deaths, each time reinventing myself brighter, stronger, and purer than before. From the midst of destruction, I became the creator of myself. From the midst of darkness, I became my own source of light.” – Cristen Rodgers
66. “Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.” – Cassandre Clare
67. “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
68. “And glory, like the phoenix midst her fires, exhales her odors, blazes, and expires.” – Lord Byron