Air Quote by Muhammad Iqbal

Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“If I were but mere dust and ashes I might speak unto the Lord, for the Lord's hand made me of this dust, and…

— John Donne

“Thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.”

— Paul Hoffman

“for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return”

— Torah

“I realize the dust we return to is not the same dust from which we come. It is not that we come from ashes…

— Zoe Klein

As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)

— George Sterling

“The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, And the clay that fills your ears shall be…

— Khalil Gibran

'As the sand fall from an hour glass, so shall the breath, from my body. Leaving but a pile of dust, until our next…

— Andrew Guzaldo

In the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground wast taken;…

— John Milton

Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.

— Alexander Anderson

God, if you think, God you are. Dust if you think, dust you are. As you think, so you become. Think God, be God.

— Sathya Sai Baba

“Onto dust we came, onto dust shall we returned.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita