I realize the dust we return to is not the same dust from…

We are dust and to dust return. In the end we're neither air, nor fire, nor water, just dirt, neither more nor less, just…

— Pablo Neruda

“Few indeed are those who get a choice. We do as we are told. We stand or fall beside those who were born near…

— Joe Abercrombie

We are all made from star dust and we will all return to star dust, like a cosmic palindrome.

— A.S. King

Know thy birth! For dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.

— John Milton

An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

— Solomon

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

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

“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

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 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

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

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

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

— Anonymous