Ashes Quotes

540 quotes by 408 authors

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. — Thomas Carlyle
If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because… — Karl Marx
God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter… — Malcolm Lowry
Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire? — John Cage
If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth… — Herbert Hoover
Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven't… — Harry Graham
Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate… — Alcuin
The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the saving grace is… — Cyprian
The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love… — Genghis Khan
Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One thing is certain: When the time has come, nothing which is man-made will subsist. One day, all human accomplishments will be reduced to a… — Alice von Hildebrand
We are recipients of God's choicest blessings. We enjoy an abundance of material things beyond that enjoyed by any other nation in the history of… — Ezra Taft Benson
The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the… — James Keller
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes. — Pierre Corneille
Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing… — Jim Butcher
Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes. — Jean Jaures
Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive. — Jean Jaures
We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin [can't all be the first Ash!] — Ashley Giles

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