A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Bloody ashes, woman. This isn't a metaphor for anything! It's just boots.” — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
The ashes of your existence will fertilize the soil for the universe to follow. — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
“From that day on, the school was closed, and without school, life is like ashes.” — Fabio Geda Copy Share Image
The proud of flesh , When confronted death , Sattered in pieces,just ashes were left . — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
We need to celebrate our lives. One day, we're all going to be dead and gone, and be nothing more than a… — Pooja Bedi Copy Share Image
“Days lived, whether full or empty, whether busy or serene, are but days gone by, and the ashes of the past weigh… — Maurice Druon Copy Share Image
Nature satisfies my thirst; it feeds my hunger; it finds me clothing; it affords me shelter; it wraps me around when I… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Ashes billow up around me, and I pull the hem of my shirt up over my mouth. It's not wondering what I… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend… — Ian Botham Copy Share Image
And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn. What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Straight out of Blackpool, I'm William Regal. My rhymes so intense, they shouldn't be legal. My style is refined, not crude and… — William Regal Copy Share Image
and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
She told me if I clean all the ashes out of the grate, then I’ll be able to help my sisters get… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds… — Stephen De Staebler Copy Share Image
Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Why can’t I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. I got over the loss… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty. — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
