Ashes Quotes - Page 18

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

  Nikolai Gogol

  Lying, Turtles, Two

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• And the dreams so rich in color. How else would death call you? Waking in the cold dawn it all turned to ash instantly. Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Color, Dawn

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road film tie-in”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Pain, Grief, Heart

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• 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.

  Gerard Way

  Inspirational, Life, Love Yourself

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.

  Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

  Love, Flames, Years

  Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1960). “The Leopard”, Pantheon Books

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• And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Beach, Children, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Road”, p.234, Pan Macmillan

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• He kissed back, all the pages spread out around us like riddles waiting to be solved. Let them wait. Let my genes unravel, my hinges come loose. If my fate rests in the hands of a madman, let death come and bring its worse. I'll take the ruined craters of laboratories, the dead trees, this city with ashes in the oxygen, if it means freedom. I'd sooner die here than live a hundred years with wires in my veins.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Mean, Fate, Hands

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• I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her egoism, her perverseness, her demoniac destructiveness. She would crush me to ashes without hesitation. She is a personality created to the limit. I worship her courage to hurt, and I am willing to be sacrificed to it. She will add the sum of me to her. She will be June plus all that I contain.

  Anais Nin

  Crush, Hurt, June

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• Nature satisfies my thirst; it feeds my hunger; it finds me clothing; it affords me shelter; it wraps me around when I sleep with beneficent and watchful care; and it takes me at last to its great bosom, where my ashes mingle with their kindred dust.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Nature, Sleep, Dust

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• Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Moon, Men

  William Shakespeare (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.137

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• He wanted to heave the glasses against the wall. Break them, break everything he could reach. Beat it, rend it. He stared out the window, imagined the city in flames, consumed to ashes. And still it wasn't enough.

  Nora Roberts

  Wall, Glasses, Flames

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• So what do wolves do to date?” Nick asked. “We don’t date,” Vane said. “When a woman is in season, we fight for her and then she picks who mounts her.” Nick gaped. “Are you kidding? You don’t have to buy her dinner? You mean you don’t even have to talk to her?” He turned to Acheron. “Dayam, Ash, make me a wolf.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mean, Fighting, Dinner

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• She was up and down—from fire and brimstone to smoke and ashes.

  John Green

  Fire, Up And Down, Smoke

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.156, Penguin

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• If the Lord tarries, there may yet be a grass-roots awakening that will overflow all sectarian barriers. There are a host of good people... who long for a visitation from heaven in old-time power. The kindling wood is scattered all round in all the churches. May God help us to rake off the ashes, uncover the live coals and may He blow upon us with the breath of His Spirit!

  Vance Havner

  Blow, Roots, Long

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• I havent really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.

  Scott Bakula

  Space, Doubt, Would Be

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• 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.

  Anna Cora Mowatt

  Fall, Heart, Men

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• Relationships that begin in passion's raging fire often end in the coldest ashes.

  Deepak Chopra

  Passion, Fire, Growth

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “Path To Love: Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Love You Need”, p.227, Random House

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• A time will come, when fields will be manured with a solution of glass (silicate of potash), with the ashes of burnt straw, and with the salts of phosphoric acid, prepared in chemical manufactories, exactly as at present medicines are given for fever and goitre.

  Justus von Liebig

  Science, Medicine, Glasses

  Justus von Liebig (1842). “Chemistry in its applications to agriculture and physiology: By Justus Liebig. Edited from the manuscript of the author by Lyon Playfair”, p.176

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• Umm, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't you suppose to be dead? Currently being chased by two Cabals? You're waltzing around Vancouver, eating in restaurants?" (Ash)"Hell no," Corey said. "I never waltz. I do the fox-trot sometimes though.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Two, Vancouver, Foxes

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• We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth - but neither shall we shrink from that risk any time it must be faced.

  John F. Kennedy

  War, Risk, Victory

  Cuban Missile Crisis Address to the Nation, delivered 22 October 1962

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• She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.

  Sarah J. Maas

  Inspiration, Fire, Heirs

  Sarah J. Maas (2014). “Heir of Fire”, p.362, A&C Black

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• Remember finally, that the ashes that were on your forehead are created from the burnt palms of last Palm Sunday. New beginnings invariably come from old false things that are allowed to die.

  Richard Rohr

  New Beginnings, Sunday, Lasts

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• But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and Deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting Ceremonies of Bravery, in the infamy of his nature. Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Animal, Flames

  1658 Hydriotaphia (Urn Burial), ch.5.

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• The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale.
  [The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal.]

  George Herbert

  Dog, Meals

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• I am preparing myself for death. When I go to sleep, I try to keep myself smiling. So that when I die, I have a smile on my lips. I want an electric cremation. I don't want any poems or fuss after that. And for heaven's sake, don't bring back my ashes. Flush them down the toilet if the crematorium refuses to keep them. If they tell you that I am dead, I want you to give a big laugh.

  Zohra Sehgal

  Sleep, Giving, Laughing

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