Ashes Quotes

540 quotes by 408 authors

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes. — Dorothy Gilman
Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail. — Bhagat Singh
And one day we will die and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea. But for now we are young; let us… — Jeff Mangum
We can die by it, if not live by love, And if unfit for tombs and hearse Our legend be, it will be fit for… — John Donne
I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew. The… — Hafez
What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them! — Robert Harris
Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat… — Wilfred Burchett
Scarlett, from the ashes of the war-ravaged land at Tara, remembering what she was taught by her father in happier times: "As God is my… — Vivien Leigh
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The… — Edmund Spenser
A strong reputation is like a good bonfire. When you have one kindled it's easy to keep the flame burning, even if someone comes along… — Zachary Taylor
I wander though China. Without ever having boarded a plane. My travels take place here in the Tokoyo subways, in the backseat of a taxi...… — Haruki Murakami
Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I am ashes where I once was fire, And the bard in my bosom is dead; What I loved I now merely admire, And my… — William Shakespeare
We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home… — Nicky Cruz
Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth, and these are two kinds of generic givens… — Stephen De Staebler
Time burns but leaves no ashes. — Elsa Triolet
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. — Gustav Mahler
I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the… — Marilyn Manson
In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group of words that have not… — Gary Snyder
So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely… — Paul Fussell

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