Burning Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

...the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

— Moses

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

— Solomon

The dust to which this flesh shall return, it is the ancient dreaming dust of God.

— Anonymous

Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.

— Muhammad Iqbal

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

“It would be wonderful if everyone, everywhere, could slip so easily into the kingdom of heaven, and just as easily stay there forever. But…

— Paul Brunton

“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

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

— Alexander Anderson

“But as it is to the dust that we go down at death, so it is from the dust that we arise at the…

— G.H. Pember

“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

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection into eternal life

— Book Of Common Prayer

Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.

— Ovid