Ashes Quotes

540 quotes by 408 authors

When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that… — George MacDonald
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
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
Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations… — Scott Westerfeld
Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them. — Marcel Proust
...and a dream away in space with neither her nor there where all the footsteps ever fell can never fare nearer to anywhere nor from… — Samuel Beckett
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
Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes… — Michelangelo
Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great… — William Shakespeare
In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn. — Octavia Butler
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
Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes. — Rumi
Then they set out along the blacktop in the gunmetal light, shuffling through the ash, each the other's world entire. — Cormac McCarthy
Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all… — Diana Gabaldon
Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air. — Sylvia Plath
Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us. — Ming-Dao Deng
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
To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is about the Black… — Scott Westerfeld
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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