Ashes Quotes
540 quotes by 403 authors
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People always say it's harder to heal a wounded heart than a wounded body. Bullshit. It's exactly the opposite—a wounded body takes much longer to…
— Xiaolu Guo
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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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Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.
— Ray Bradbury
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Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to…
— Sylvia Plath
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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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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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Thou shalt not steal. I seem to recall that being one of God’s I’d rather you didn’t lest I have to smite you into ash…
— Libba Bray
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Ash, ash —- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there—— A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling. Herr God,…
— Sylvia Plath
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Look: I am nothing. I do not even have ashes to rub into my eyes.
— James Wright
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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
Who Wrote These Ashes Quotes
403 authors contributed a total of 540 Ashes Quotes, led by these top contributors: