Dust Quotes - Page 21

• In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

  Eric Liddell

  Success, Sports, Victory

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• I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend...I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Stars, Mean

  "The Sandman: Brief Lives". Comic book series by Neil Gaiman, 1994.

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• Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Stars, Real

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.129, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Poison!" Grover yelped. "Don't let those things touch you or..." "Or we'll die?" I guessed. "Well...after you shrivel slowly to dust, yes." "Let's avoid the swords," I decided.

  Rick Riordan

  Poison, Wells, Grover

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• It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Struggle, Silly

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.20, GENERAL PRESS

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• Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names. It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in the dust. It was my hunger for your love that raged from the housetop, while my own love, kneeling in silence, prayed your forgiveness.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Pride, Self

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• Mom," said Peter, "nobody thinks you're a lackwit, if that's what you're worried about." Lackwit? In what musty drawer of some dead English professor's dust-covered desk did you find that word? I assure you that never in my worst nightmares did I ever suppose that I was a lackwit.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mom, Thinking, Worst Nightmares

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• One white man on the platform in South Carolina asked us where we were going--we had got off the train to get some fresh air and to dust the grit and dust out of our clothes. When we said Africa he looked offended and tickled too. Niggers going to Africa, he said to his wife. Now I have seen everything.

  Alice Walker

  Men, Air, White Man

  Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• (Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Egypt, Gleam, Splendid

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• ..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. .. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Blue, Wind, Tree

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• She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Voice, Roots, Tree

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.15, University of Illinois Press

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• Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Flower, Heart

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 16, 2012

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• You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise.

  Maya Angelou

  Happiness, Success, Hope

  "Still I Rise" l. 1 (1978)

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• The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

  William Wordsworth

  Death, Summer, Heart

  'The Excursion' (1814) bk. 1, l. 500

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• At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Believe, Hands, Soul

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Anna Karenina: Tolstoy's Collections”, p.761, 谷月社

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• It’s for my God, the god of dogs, and snakes and dust mites and albino bears and Siamese twins, the god of stars and starships and other dimensions, the god who loves everyone and makes everything marvelous.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Dog, Stars, Snakes

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.461, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.

  Robert Jordan

  Flower, Heart, Journey

  Robert Jordan (2010). “The Shadow Rising: Book Four of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.253, Macmillan

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• For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Pages, Jackets

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• Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Lying, Men

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.855, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust.

  Stephen King

  Sky, Rose, Algae

  Stephen King (2014). “Pet Sematary”, p.63, Simon and Schuster

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• The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed sediment of a muddy lake when you touch its bottom.

  Che Guevara

  Lakes, Cities, Rising

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• And the Top spoke no more of his old love; for that dies away when the beloved objects has lain for five years in a roof gutter and got wet through; yes, one does not know her again when one meets her in the dust box.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Years, Doe, Gutters

  Hans Christian Andersen, Henry William Dulcken (2002). “Stories and Tales”, p.237, Psychology Press

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• Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Stars, Clouds

  Langston Hughes (2011). “The Dream Keeper and Other Poems”, p.76, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Liars, Sleep, People

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.68, Library of Alexandria

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• It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Egypt, Smell

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