Ashes Quotes · Page 8

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.

— Shigeru Yoshida

True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to…

— Anonymous

“...and some soon will learn that even an ember in the ashes can still ignite a great blaze.”

— George R.R. Martin

“She's fire. But she won't burn you... she knows all too well, how it feel to live with ashes.”

— Alfa H

There was something about Ash that made every hormone in her body stand up and pant for more

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

— Gustav Mahler

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

— Douglas MacArthur

'Ashes of Time' was my third film, and as a young director at that point, it's not very often that you have…

— Wong Kar-wai

And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery…

— Charles Dickens

Because she’s Acheron companion. (Astrid) Ash has a companion? (Zarek) (The demon snorted. She stood up and whispered loudly in Astrid’s ear.)…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form…

— Charles Bukowski

When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarlet. "Don't you hate me?" he demanded. "I'd hate me." "You just tried…

— Sarah Rees Brennan

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when…

— Bob Uecker

No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All…

— Cormac McCarthy

Let us help the phoenix to rise from the ashes; let us help lay the foundation for a new renaissance; let us…

— Peace Pilgrim

“Almost Easter Shaking bone meal from my bare hands into the rose bed where only one bush grows, I feel as if…

— Felicia Mitchell

This crazy little party girl who loves to enjoy life actually has a purpose. So, that's really the core of why I've…

— Michelle Rodriguez

Beautiful men and women with distorted shadows came and scorched their handprints onto doors before vanishing skyward, drafts of heat billowing behind…

— Laini Taylor

The search for truth is, as it always has been, the noblest expression of the human spirit. Man's insatiable desire for knowledge…

— Raymond B. Fosdick

We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will…

— John Donne

“It’s the way of all ancient stories. The young man must go “down” in order to find the right path for going…

— Sidney Poitier

“None of them understand... they can't see the enormity of time the way I can, the way it swallows all our striving...…

— Dianne Sylvan

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We got a new song called 'Ashes in Your Mouth,' and it is NOT about a joint falling apart.

— Dave Mustaine

I heard a lot about Ian Botham's Ashes, in 1981. Everybody still talks about his performance.

— Dinesh Karthik

“it is not unusual to sift through ashes and find an unburnt picture”

— Nikki Giovanni

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

— William Shatner

Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

— Elie Wiesel

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the…

— Anne Baxter

So open your eyes child, let's be on our way. Broken windows and ashes are guiding the way.

— Anonymous

We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin [can't all be the first Ash!]

— Ashley Giles

“Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, our lives are a mirror, reflection a must...”

— Lynda Meyers

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

— James Wright

“The Phoenix burns and rebirths from the ashes in the absence of need for witness, acceptance, understanding or belief.”

— Truth Devour

Imora thea mi savur," Ash whispered under his breath in Atlantean. God save me from love.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“He condemned monarchy itself as a system which had laid the world "in blood and ashes.”

— Charles A. Beard

We each should have 2 pockets: in 1 the message, 'I am dust & ashes;' in the other, 'For me the universe…

— Joan D. Chittister

“Running amok, just like a phoenix you obtain this new life arising from the ashes of the old one.”

— Maya Realm