Dust Quotes - Page 35

• History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?

  Washington Irving

  Fall, Character, Pyramids

  Washington Irving (2006). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories From the Sketch Book”, p.144, Penguin

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• Woe unto the defeated, whom history treads into the dust.

  Arthur Koestler

  Woe Unto, History, Defeated

  ARTHUR KOESTLER (1941). “DARKNESS AT NOON”

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• Strange that mankind should ever have used the mushroom. All the various species of this substance are of a leathery consistence, and contain but little nutriment. The condiments or seasonings which are added are what are chiefly prized. Without these, we should almost as soon eat saw dust as mushrooms.

  William Alcott

  Mushrooms, Substance, Littles

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• You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust

  Michael Gungor

  Beautiful, Beautiful Things

  Song: You Make Beautiful Things, Album: Beautiful Things, 2010

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• 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

  Men, Air, Rose

  'Four Quartets' 'Little Gidding' (1942) pt. 2

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• The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Flying, Controversy, Falsehood

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• I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Would Be, Flow, Masterpiece

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• The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart.

  Charles Wright

  Heart, Ache, Thick

  Charles Wright (2014). “The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990”, p.95, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes, all become radioactive.

  Marie Curie

  Taken, Air, Clothes

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• With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails broken to get there, to the other side, to the light and the open air. And now that my hands bleed and my teeth tremble, unsure in a cavity cracked by thirst and dust, I pause and contemplate my work. I have spent the second part of my life breaking the stones, drilling the walls, smashing the doors, removing the obstacles I placed between the light and myself in the first part of my life.

  Octavio Paz

  Wall, Rocks, Air

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• It was clear: I was sick. I never used to dream. They say in the old days it was the most normal thing in the world to have dreams. Which makes sense: Their whole life was some kind of horrible merry-go-round of green, orange, Buddha, juice. But today we know that dreams point to a serious mental illness. And I know that up to now my brain has checked out chronometrically perfect, a mechanism without a speck of dust.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Dream, Orange, Perfect

  Yevgeny Zamyatin (1993). “We: New Edition”, p.46, Penguin

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• This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moving, Fog, Apollo

  Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin (199?). “First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story”, Konecky & Konecky

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• People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

  Caryl Churchill

  Wings, Feet, People

  Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books

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• I've always been intrigued with the male characters in novels like 'Pride and Prejudice' such as Mr. Darcy, and this poem is part of a series of poems that explore desire and obsessions. The poems have been sitting in a drawer for a few years, so I decided to dust them off and work on them again since I have not written a new poem in more than three years. I'm not sure anything will become of the series, but at least it gives me something to work on in a period where I feel very uncreative.

  Victoria Chang

  Character, Pride, Years

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• Love is the simplest of all earthly things.
  It needs no grandeur of celestial trust
  In more than what it is, no holy wings:
  It stands with honest feet in honest dust,
  And is the body's blossoming in clear air
  Of trustfulness and joyance when alone
  Two mortals pass beyond the hour's despair
  And claim that Paradise which is their own.
  Amid a universe of sweat and blood,
  Beyond the glooms of all the nations' hate,
  Lovers, forgetful of the poisoned mood
  Of the loud world, in secret ere too late
  A gentle sacrament may celebrate
  Before their private altar of the good.

  Arthur Davison Ficke

  Hate, Love Is, Blood

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• The very first as a cardinal rule for a person to build trust is to do must only that what is humanly just as that helps to wipe and wither away those parasitic people stuck to his life as dirt and dust.

  Anuj

  People, Wipe, Dirt

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• Good excuses rarely collect dust. We use them, and use them, and use them.

  Andy Stanley

  Use, Excuse

  Andy Stanley (2011). “Enemies of the Heart: Breaking Free from the Four Emotions That Control You”, p.65, Multnomah

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• Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Shade, Life Is, Hours

  "The Satires". Book by Aulus Persius Flaccus, Satire V, line 151,

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• Since time immemorial it had been the custom before a sea battle for the men to wash and don clean clothes in case of being wounded. This was all the more necessary under these circumstances, as many of them were still covered with coal dust.

  Richard Hough

  Men, Sea, Clothes

  Richard Hough (2003). “Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century”, p.33, The Overlook Press

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• The gospel humbles us into the dust and at the very same time exalts us to the heavens.

  Timothy Keller

  Heaven

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.107, Penguin

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• When the lamp is shattered The light in the dust lies dead - When the cloud is scattered The rainbow's glory is shed.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Lying, Clouds, Light

  'Lines: When the lamp'

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• The desert is a place of bones, where the innards are turned out, to desiccate into dust.

  Vera Nazarian

  Desert, Arizona, Bones

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• If you are bathed In God's Forgiveness-Light, Then no dust of earth Will be able to cling to you.

  Sri Chinmoy

  God, Light, Earth

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• Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach to the backs. These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned.

  Alberto Manguel

  Rip, Book, White

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.22, Vintage Canada

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• Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

  Eliphas Levi

  Beauty, Beautiful, Reflection

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