Ashes Quotes
540 quotes by 408 authors
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Then I will speak upon the ashes.
— Sojourner Truth
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When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined…
— Margaret Atwood
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And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own…
— Khalil Gibran
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He reached forward then took me in his arms, held me close for a moment, the breath of snow and ashes cold around us. Then…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Mary bring out your umbrella - The sun shines down on this fine, fine day But the ashes raining down forever Are going to turn…
— Lauren Oliver
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Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which patrons checked out…
— Alice Hoffman
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Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left…
— C.S. Lewis
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Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The…
— Pablo Neruda
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They sent forth men to battle, But no such men return; And home, to claim their welcome, Come ashes in an urn
— Aeschylus
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I stare at this ceaseless, rushing crowd and imagine a time a hundred years from now. In a hundred years everybody here-me included-will have disappeared…
— Haruki Murakami
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Do me a favor." "Don't lick your seat belt?" Ash's expression was total confusion. "Huh? where did that randomness come from?
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Were you raised in a barn? You don't just walk into someone's house." Ash laughed. "I have an open invitation to enter whenever I'm here."…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I swear if that's a pair of demon horns digging into my belly and stabbing me right now, Ash, I'm going to beat you after…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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This is the concentration camp and crematorium at Auschwitz. This is where people were turned into numbers. Into this pond were flushed the ashes of…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.
— Amin Maalouf
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Maybe it was a good thing that Bones was putting Don's remains away instead of me. With my current emotional state, I'd probably think the…
— Jeaniene Frost
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Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.
— Ted Dekker
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As the last Seelie left the hall, Roiben, self-declared King of the Unseelie Court, nearly fell into his throne. Kaye tried to smile at him,…
— Holly Black
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His fingers skimmed down her body, over skin and satin, and she shivered, leaning into him, and she was sure they both tasted like blood…
— Cassandra Clare
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Oh, Lord, forgive three sins that are due to my human limitations. Thou art Everywhere, but I worship thee here: Thou art without form, but…
— M.M. Kaye
Who Wrote These Ashes Quotes
408 authors contributed a total of 540 Ashes Quotes, led by these top contributors: