Look: I am nothing. I do not even have ashes to rub into…

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

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

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

“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

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

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

— Thomas Browne

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

— Madeline Miller

There is nothing quite like an Ashes trip Down Under.

— James Anderson

I think momentum is huge in sport, especially in a series like the Ashes.

— Ben Stokes

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned…

— Marcus Aurelius

“When you burn a bridge, you have to be prepared to live with some ashes.”

— Chris Coppernoll

I would rather be ashes than dust.

— Jack London