Dust Quotes

• His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

  Gautama Buddha

  May, Wheels, Fortune

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• First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Debt, Firsts, Pleasure

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”, p.231

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• Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

  H. G. Wells

  Stars, People, Swim

  H. G. Wells (1898). “The War of the Worlds”, p.9

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• There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

  Glen Cook

  Dream, Once Upon A Time, Youth

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.457, Macmillan

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• Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

  Marianne Moore

  Beauty, Everlasting

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.138, Penguin

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• DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.

  Adrian Belew

  Song, Demos, Rarity

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• Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Flames, Burning

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• All we are is dust in the wind, dude.

  Ted Theodore

  Wind, Excellent

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• Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Death, Art

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 1 - 2 (1838)

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• I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Fear, Atheism

  The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

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• It is unlikely that we will ever see a star being born. Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young, but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event. Stars are born inside thick clouds of dust and gas in the spiral arms of the galaxy, so thick that visible light cannot penetrate them.

  Heinz Pagels

  Stars, Science, Animal

  Heinz R. Pagels (1985). “Perfect symmetry: the search for the beginning of time”, Simon & Schuster

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• This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Angel, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• Einstein’s 1905 paper came out and suddenly changed people’s thinking about space-time. We’re again in the middle of something like that. When the dust settles, time—whatever it may be—could turn out to be even stranger and more illusory than even Einstein could imagine.

  Carlo Rovelli

  Science, Thinking, Space

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• Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

  Solomon

  Wisdom, Earth, Return

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• We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Stars, Spinning

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• The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

  Saint Augustine

  Blood, House, Soul

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• I'm full of dust and guitars.

  Syd Barrett

  Guitar

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• Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Book, Skulls, Empty

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.70, University of Georgia Press

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• You either make dust or eat dust.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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• Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

  Lord Byron

  Men, Thinking, Literature

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• Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

  George Carlin

  Futility Of Life, Trying, Example

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Positive, Christian

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• Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

  John le Carre

  Writing, Pie, Mud

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• He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

  Emily Dickinson

  Poverty, Spirit, Poor

  c.1883 Complete Poems, no.1587 (first published 1890).

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• Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Writing, Insult To Injury

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