The Ashes Quotes

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.

Nothing is right and nothing is just; We sow in ashes and reap in dust.

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

I'm not going to have a tombstone. I'm going to be tossed in the air. Ashes, tossed like a salad.

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.

The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.

Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.

it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.

Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like.

The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. Now you have the nerve to criticize the 'architect' America just hired - President Obama - to rebuild from the ashes.

An evil deed, like fresh milk, does not go bad suddenly. Smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, the evil deed follows the fool.

Without preservation and cultivation of the spiritual, your material success will be as ashes in your mouths.

Japan will not abandon the fight for the Philippines even if Tokyo should be reduced to ashes!

Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day.

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.

My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doingthis play.

Why are you not where you belong? / A black hat on a hook says nothing. / Ashes mirror ashes / In a mirroring window.

You can't lie down in the ashes of another person's life.

Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations and sell them to us, cheaply made enough to fall apart.

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.

Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth [gems] of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.

We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin [can't all be the first Ash!]

Well, then," he said. "Let's do it." "What?" Vin asked. "Save the world." Elend said. "Stop the ash.

the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.

I've tried to find a new elegance. It's not easy because people want to be shocked. They want explosive fashion. But explosions don't last, they disappear immediately and leave nothing but ashes.

Look: I am nothing. I do not even have ashes to rub into my eyes.

Do you ever want to go home?' I asked Paul. He brushed an ash from my face. 'It's the century of the displaced person,' he said. 'You can never go home.

I am ashes where once I was fire.

It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

Them chickens is ash and I'm lotion.

Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire, I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished outside me, it besets and consumes me inside, and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?

Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die

Each book starts from ashes.

I cry out from the ashes, burned with sin and shame. I ask you Lord to make me whole again.

Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.

I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth.

Sometimes strange fiction, becomes grim reality.

Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace

That's your truck parked up by the factory isn't it?" Magnus pointed. "It's awfully butch for a bookseller.

It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.

Love make us a liar. . Jace Wayland/Herondale, City of Ashes

Adjusting to Beau being a caveman over a girl had been almost as hard as seeing him with Ash. Beau didn't do jealous, not until Ashton had become his. Now he was a freaking lunatic.

Ash, I want you. Bad, very very bad. But you deserve better than this

And when midst fallen London, they survey The stone where Alexander's ashes lay, Shall own with humbled pride the lesson must By Time's slow finger written in the dust.

And within the house ashes are being stuffed into my marriage, fury is lapping the walls, dishes crack on the shelves, a strangler needs my throat, the daughter has ceased to eat anything.

Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.

When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.