Ashes Quote by Seneca the Younger

He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.

— Juvenal

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

— A.R. Simmons

“We'll turn to ashes in this house without men, but. we won't give this miserable town the pleasure of seeing us weep”

— Gabriel García Márquez

One day we will all be ashes on the ground..The wind will just blow us everywhere till it disappears. And some will be in…

— Jazzy

“preferring to live in the dusty ashes of what he'd once been than to risk the flames”

— Kathryn Shay

“One cannot restore anything from the ashes without building a solid foundation.”

— Saveros Pou

If he could only see how small a vacancy his death would leave, the proud man would think less of the place he occupies…

— Ernest Legouve

Lastly, the ashes left behind, May daily show to move the mind, That to ashes and dust return we must: Then think, and drink…

— George Wither

He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes

— Chinese Proverbs

But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to…

— Constance Naden