Ashes Quotes

540 quotes by 403 authors

People always say it's harder to heal a wounded heart than a wounded body. Bullshit. It's exactly the oppositeâ€”a wounded body takes much longer to… — Xiaolu Guo
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
Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan. — Ray Bradbury
Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved oneâ€™s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to… — Sylvia Plath
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
Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has… — Lafcadio Hearn
You canâ€™t, if you canâ€™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
All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish… — Charles Dickens
Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear. — Ellen Hopkins
she told me she'd be a phoenix." The image of the mythical creature rising from the ashes glitters in my mind. "They don't really exist."… — Jodi Picoult
All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier,… — Dan Millman
Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of Godâ€™s Iâ€™d rather you didnâ€™t lest I have to smite you into ash… — Libba Bray
Ash, ash â€”- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing thereâ€”â€” A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling. Herr God,… — Sylvia Plath
It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with… — Madeleine L'Engle
More poignant for us, at Laetoli in Tanzania are the companionable footprints of three real hominids, probably Australopithecus afarensis, walking together 3.6 million years ago… — Richard Dawkins
Above my cradle loomed the bookcase where/ Latin ashes and the dust of Greece/ mingled with novels, history, and verse/ in one dark Babel. I… — Charles Baudelaire
It was a hurting tune, resigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant… — Kristin Cashore
The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was… — Daphne du Maurier
Look: I am nothing. I do not even have ashes to rub into my eyes. — James Wright
If I had my way," Dionysus said, "I would cause your molecules to erupt in flames. We'd sweep up the ashes and be done with… — Rick Riordan

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