Ashes Quotes

• The holiest of all holidays are those
  Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
  The secret anniversaries of the heart,
  When the full river of feeling overflows;-
  The happy days unclouded to their close;
  The sudden joys that our of darkness start
  As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart
  Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Holiday, Blow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.857, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that my heart once used to live and love, long and aspire- O, be thou then the first, the one thou art; be thou the calling, before all answering love, and in me wake hope, fear, boundless desire.

  George MacDonald

  Art, Moving, Fire

  George MacDonald (2006). “A Book of Strife in the Form of the Diary of an Old Soul”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.

  Bess Myerson

  Phoenix

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• The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Uplifting, Hope, Sky

  "The Book of the Bizarre: Freaky Facts & Strange Stories". Book by Varla Ventura (p. 46), 2008.

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• If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

  Charles Bukowski

  Book, Soul, Desire

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• Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

  Frank McCourt

  Empty Mind, House, World

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day.

  Joan Rivers

  Death, Husband, Way

  "Joan Rivers: the best of her career in clips and quotes" by Lilah Raptopoulos, www.theguardian.com. September 04, 2014.

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• This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Moving, Men, Garden

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Book House (2016). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.393, Book House

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• Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

  Neil Gaiman

  Adventure, Dust, Shadow

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• Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within the soft edges of the earth, the ash of house fires and cancer in sin and forgiveness huddled under old blankets dreaming their way into my hands, my heart closing tight like fists. - "Indian Boy Love Song #1

  Sherman Alexie

  Dream, Song, Cancer

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• Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Heat, Explosions, Theory

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• There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes

  Ian Botham

  Sports, Country, Two

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• My mom was a phoenix who always expected to rise again from the ashes of her latest disaster... She loved being Judy Garland.

  Lorna Luft

  Mother, Phoenix, Disaster

  "Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir". Book by Lorna Luft, April 24, 1998.

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• I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

  Carl Sandburg

  Life, Time, Moving

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• Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

  Paul de Man

  Fashion, Fire, Flames

  Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.147, Routledge

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• I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.

  Shigeru Yoshida

  Japan, Speak, Risen

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• The past is a bucket of ashes

  Carl Sandburg

  Past, Buckets

  Cornhuskers (1918) "Prairie"

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• Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.

  Jean Jaures

  Past, Fire, History

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• You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.

  Billy Corgan

  Phoenix, Life And Death, Stories

  "The Great Pumpkin: Billy Corgan Discusses Tour, New Album, Personal Philosophy". Stereo IQ interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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• Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - St. Anger being the fire and Death Magnetic being the phoenix.

  Kirk Hammett

  Phoenix, Fire, Rising

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• Dear friends of Haiti, we are indeed on the right track. Slowly but surely we are rising from the ashes.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Track, Rising, Haiti

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• Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

  Abigail Van Buren

  Fighting, Fire

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• A mother's love is a blessing No matter where you roam. Keep her while you have her, You'll miss her when she's gone -- Angela's Ashes.

  Frank McCourt

  Mother, Blessing, Love Is

  Frank McCourt (1999). “Angela's Ashes: A Memoir”, p.357, Simon and Schuster

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• In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.

  Thomas Cranmer

  Dust, Earth, Resurrection

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• I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

  Bob Uecker

  Flames, Dozen, Bats

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