Air Quote by T. S. Eliot

Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive.

— Jean Jaures

Ash, ash —- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there—— A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling. Herr…

— Sylvia Plath

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.

— Pierre Corneille

The ash placed on our foreheads on Ash Wed comes from the palms on Palm Sunday. The rite of burning of the palms is…

— Anonymous

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

— Walter Savage Landor

What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

— William Butler Yeats

“When people die they are sometimes put into coffins, which means that they don't mix with the earth for a very long time until…

— Mark Haddon

When the fire is gone, the heat remains in the ashes. when the love is gone, the pain remains in the heart

— Anonymous

How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?

— Paul Gauguin

A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.

— Tennessee Williams

When a beauty of lightening and falling, it does not see what he burned the house and whose hearts are making Ash

— Mak_786

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

— Gustav Mahler