Ash Quotes
177 quotes by 113 authors
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Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and…
— Dylan Thomas
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Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within…
— Sherman Alexie
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An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it…
— Norman Maclean
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The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered…
— Michael Chabon
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Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire.
— Cormac McCarthy
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Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.
— Sylvia Plath
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Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us.
— Ming-Dao Deng
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and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the…
— Ani DiFranco
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Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like…
— Cormac McCarthy
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A truth comes out when it must; A dream comes true when it will. Though the world turn to ash and dust A secret’s a…
— Sharon Shinn
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...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children…
— Sherman Alexie
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Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied.
— Gregory Galloway
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Well Vin says that there's something behind all this, right? Some evil force of doom or whatever? Well, if I were said force of doom,…
— Brandon Sanderson
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You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I…
— Pablo Neruda
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I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.
— Agatha Christie
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You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power,…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.
— Ellen Hopkins
Who Wrote These Ash Quotes
113 authors contributed a total of 177 Ash Quotes, led by these top contributors: