Shakespeare Quote by Robinson Jeffers

“... all his ambitions were dust in his grave. It all came down to dust in the end.”

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his feet. He…

— Henning Mankell

“I have sat before the dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full of its tormented flaming life; and I have seen it…

— Herman Melville

“Life was long, unless you died, and he didn’t intend to spend the next sixty years talking about the last twenty-two.”

— Chad Harbach

“He admired this too: their ability to preserve joy at any cost, the way prehistoric man might have preserved fire.”

— Daniel Alarcón

“His dying mind conjured up one last, reassuring thought. In the end, don't we all come from dust anyway? We come from dust... and…

— Alex Scarrow

“Tomorrow morning, he decided, I'll begin clearing away the sand of fifty thousand centuries for my first vegetable garden. That's the initial step.”

— Philip K. Dick

“Worrying about the past is tending the ashes instead of the fire.”

— A.R. Simmons

“He'd spend another thousand years by your side if he could.”

— Jocelyn Davies

“I'll burn, he thought, and be scattered in ashes all over the continental lands. I'll be put to use. Just a little bit, but…

— Ray Bradbury

“bound him for a thousand years.”

— The Biblescript

“I don't wanna live a thousand years. If I just live through today, that'll be enough.”

— One Piece