It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“to subdue one’s self to other people’s ends was dust and ashes.” — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown in Uri Geller's eyes. — James Randi Copy Share Image
The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Forget 'redeeming social value,' dirty pictures are fun. When I die I want my ashes sprinkled over a nudist camp. — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
You catch a fairly young field-vole and flay it... We take the skin, when Venus stands in the sign of the scorpion,… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
On 'Phoenix,' I talk about thoughts of suicide and my whole life. It's called 'Phoenix' because it's talking about dying - but… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
No matter what spiritual path you've walked or what teachings you've followed, they must lead you back to no path and no… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights… — Malcolm Lowry Copy Share Image
Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Beauty in this Iron Age must turn, From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn, And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn, On… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“I have sat before the dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full of its tormented flaming life; and I have… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
There's that older poem of John Ashbery's-"America"-with the pun "I'm a wrecker," so wreckage and building out of the ashes of that.… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes. — Beryl Bainbridge Copy Share Image
“Sometimes lifting yourself out of the ashes will cause you to be burned by other people. Guess what? You can handle it.” — Antonio T. Smith Jr Copy Share Image
“I wouldn't go back to ashes or dust Words gave me life and in them I will surrender From words to words..” — Akanksha Singh Copy Share Image
Is there any pleasure in anger? Yes, if the fire of my anger appeases the ashes of my friends. — Virgil Copy Share Image
You lack the courage to be consumed in flames and to become ashes: so you will never become new, and never young… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Love is the fire in which everything is reduced to ashes. Only God will be saved. Only God cannot burn. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“It's not how we crash and burn, but how we rise up again from the ashes that make us who we are.” — Brian Weimer Copy Share Image
There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes — Ian Botham Copy Share Image
It's great to retain the Ashes but it just doesn't sit right with me when you don't win it. — Steve Smith Copy Share Image
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted. — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
“I’ve become a monster. I was burned to ashes, along with my soul, but I will rise and make them pay.” — Clarissa Wild Copy Share Image
you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, our lives are a mirror, reflection a must...” — Lynda Meyers Copy Share Image
We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin [can't all be the first Ash!] — Ashley Giles Copy Share Image