Ash Quotes

We can take from the past its fires, and not its ashes. (Jean Jaures)
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. View quote
Leonard Cohen
The past is a bucket of ashes. View quote
Carl Sandburg
Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person. View quote
Gerard Way
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. View quote
Jack London
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
The temple of fame stands upon the grave the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men. View quote
William Hazlitt
Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes. View quote
Emil Cioran
Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty. View quote
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Of all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun, Than Oak, and Ash and Thorn. (Rudyard Kipling)
I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash. View quote
Agatha Christie
The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone. View quote
Omar Khayyám
As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas, Into main ocean they, this deed accursed An emblem yields to friends and enemies How the bold teacher's doctrine, sanctified By truth, shall spread, throughout the world dispersed. View quote
William Wordsworth
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. View quote
Jack London
Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes. View quote
Wilfred Burchett
I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract. View quote
Groucho Marx
To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock the holly whistles as it battles with itself the ash hisses amid its quiverings the beech rustles while its flat boughs rise and fall. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air. View quote
Sylvia Plath
My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns; Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns; The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals; The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls. View quote
Robert Southwell
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it. (Marcus Aurelius)
The warriors that fought for their country, and bled, Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed; No stone tells the place where their ashes repose, Nor points out the spot from the graves of their foes. They died in their glory, surrounded by fame, And Victory's loud trump their death did proclaim; They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the left-overs from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor. View quote
Yves Klein
A nuclear war does not defend a country and it does not defend a system. I've put it the same way many times; not even the most accomplished ideologue will be able to tell the difference between the ashes of capitalism and the ashes of communism. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past. View quote
Ani DiFranco