Ashes Quote by Marguerite Yourcenar Download Open image “Books are not life, only its ashes.” — Marguerite Yourcenar ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ashes Book Books Life
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Any law too often subject to infraction is bad; it is the duty of the legislator to repeal or to change it, lest the… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Of all our games, love's play is the only one which threatens to unsettle the soul... — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“To eat fruit is to welcome into oneself a fair living object, which is alien to us but is nourished and protected like us… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Everything is too far away in the past, or mysteriously too close. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others.… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“ A amizade é, acima de tudo, certeza - é isso o que a distingue do amor.” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“It is not by blood, anyhow, that man's true continuity is established: Alexander's direct heir is Caesar, and not the frail infant born of… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Quel bel levriero... si distese sulla mia vita (Memorie di Adriano, Saeculum Aureum)” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
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… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
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,… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think momentum is huge in sport, especially in a series like the Ashes. — Ben Stokes Copy Share Image
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
