Ashes Quote by E. T. A. Hoffmann

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“A man so obsessed with holy fire should pay more attention to the smoke.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“Ash was the Master of Smoke.”

— Tracey West

“Smoking was a sacred ceremony. Old plains Indians sealed oaths and agreements with the pipe. In smoking, the host or master of ceremonies, filled…

— Frank Bird Linderman

“He wasn’t sure if the smoke was necessary to carry their prayers up to Heaven, but it sure did rouse the spirit.”

— C.A. Tedeschi

“He must desire the scent of the smoke of their sacrifice.”

— Philippa Gregory

“Smokers always waxed poetic about the ritual of it, how a large part of the satisfaction was packing the box and pulling the foil…

— Lauren Weisberger

What's in that pipe that he's smoking?

— Arlo Guthrie

She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.

— Alice Hoffman

“...doing the smoker's comedy act: he hunted automatically for an ashtray, didn't find one, tipped his ashes into the palm of his hand,...”

— Patricia Nell Warren

“He loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service--the tall priest strutting like a carrion crow and pronouncing magic in a dead…

— Dan Simmons

He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace of the Sepulchre, placed…

— Peter Chrysologus