Time burns but leaves no ashes.

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.

— Tennessee Williams

Love leaves ashes.

— Krishty

I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns…

— Tennessee Williams

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Before a clock was in the tower, Or e'er a watch was worn; I knew of night the passing hour, And prophesied the morn;…

— Anonymous

He said that he will never let you cry,he will always be there for you no matter how hard the situation is,that he will…

— Zhra

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

— Anonymous

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots…

— Anonymous

I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's…

— Marilyn Manson

“Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.”

— Madeline Miller

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

— Thomas Browne

When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is…

— Margaret Atwood

You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if…

— Pablo Neruda

“The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,…

— Edmund Spenser