Dust Quotes

1193 Dust quotes by 849 unique authors

The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust. — Vera Nazarian
If you are bathed In God's Forgiveness-Light, Then no dust of earth Will be able to cling to you. — Sri Chinmoy
Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach… — Alberto Manguel
Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity;… — Eliphas Levi
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time. — Marianne Moore
Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at… — Rabindranath Tagore
The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The person who uncritically… — Brennan Manning
There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being. — Arthur Schopenhauer
This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws… — Henry Ward Beecher
In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life. — D. H. Lawrence
Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.... [W]hat… — William Shakespeare
Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it… — Thomas Carlyle
A few days ago Tan Casipo said to me, 'Some people come here with so much dust in their eyes it's unbearable to talk to… — Tim Ward
Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something. You disturb the air as you go forward, you disturb the dust, the… — Mahatma Gandhi
There is in this world in which everything wears out, everything perishes, one thing that crumbles into dust, that destroys itself still more completely, leaving… — Marcel Proust
A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all… — Oscar Wilde
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above… — Oscar Wilde
For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away. — William Blake
Blessed be Death, that cuts in marble What would have sunk to dust! — Edna St. Vincent Millay
Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh,… — Thomas Carlyle
A refrigerator runs by converting the dust behind it into a peculiar mutant, reptilian substance. — Colin McEnroe
At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you… — Isaac Asimov
The resurrection blasts apart the finality of death, providing an alternative to the stifling, settling dust of death and opens the way to new life. — Billy Graham
A man is sometimes lost in the dust of his own raising. — David Ruggles
The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men. — Saadi

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