(87 quotes found)
“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.”
Jack London
“Ashes fly back into the face of him who throws them”
African Proverb
“The little dog lay curled and did not rise But slept the deeper as the ashes rose, And found the people incomplete”
Richard Wilbur
“Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red.”
William Manchester
“This is a valley of ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat…”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.”
T.S. Eliot
“What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, "this too shall pass"If all the world were windswept, cold and grayAnd in the end there's nothing left to say.”
Bob Weir
“But we were at the funeral. We scattered a trash bag full of his ashes!”
Will & Grace
“You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.”
Chief Seattle
“The dog that licks ashes is not to be trusted with flour”
Italian Proverb
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