Ashes Quotes

540 quotes by 408 authors

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins,… — Clara Barton
Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes! — Joan of Arc
Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them. — Steven Morrissey
Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's Ash?arite… — Peter Adamson
Remember finally, that the ashes that were on your forehead are created from the burnt palms of last Palm Sunday. New beginnings invariably come from… — Richard Rohr
But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of… — Thomas Browne
For reasons of sentiment, I would like part of my ashes to be mixed up with Mama's, and both her ashes and mine put side… — Lee Kuan Yew
The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we… — May Sarton
Even if I had any money I would rather burn everything I own and not even give them the ashes. They could have the job… — Peter Sunde
A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a fire blazes brightly when the covering of ash over it is scattered by the wind, the divine fire within the body shines in… — B.K.S. Iyengar
In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail. — Ezra Pound
Straight out of Blackpool, I'm William Regal. My rhymes so intense, they shouldn't be legal. My style is refined, not crude and crass. I'll keep… — William Regal
The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to… — Walker Percy
I am preparing myself for death. When I go to sleep, I try to keep myself smiling. So that when I die, I have a… — Zohra Sehgal
Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink? — William Butler Yeats
You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of… — Abraham Lincoln

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