For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return…

“for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return”

— Torah

“Thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.”

— Paul Hoffman

They sewed fig-leaves together and made themselves aprons. -Genesis iii. 7.

— Bible

In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. -Genesis iii. 19

— Bible

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken;…

— John Milton

“Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devil's…

— John Donne

“Mist to mist, drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“I will put my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way which…

— Donovan M. Neal

“Song Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the…

— John Donne

“Is Dust immortal then, I ask'd him, so that we may see it blowing through the Centuries? But as Walter gave no Answer I…

— Peter Ackroyd

From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest to the…

— Thomas de Quincey

“Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee. -Job xii. 8

— Bible