Ashes Quotes - Page 11

• Psychoanalysis feeds on intensity, as though life were all flame and no ash.

  Edmund White

  Flames, Intensity, Psychoanalysis

  Edmund White (2016). “A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic”, p.117, Pan Macmillan

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• Both Moscow and [Kiev], the modern and the ancient capitals, were reduced to ashes [by the Tartars]; a temporary ruin, less fatal than the deep, and perhaps indelible, mark, which a servitude of two hundred years has imprinted on the character of the Russians.

  Edward Gibbon

  Character, Years, Two

  Edward Gibbon (2008). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.15, Cosimo, Inc.

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• One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Phoenix, Giving

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• He reached forward then took me in his arms, held me close for a moment, the breath of snow and ashes cold around us. Then he kissed me, released me, and I took a deep breath of cold air, harsh with the scent of burning.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Air, Snow, Burning

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.5608, Dell

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• You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. Now you have the nerve to criticize the 'architect' America just hired - President Obama - to rebuild from the ashes.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Home, America, President

  "Open Letter to the Republican Traitors (From a Former Republican)" by Frank Schaeffer, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2009.

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• I cannot pay attention to what people say about my work. For me, personally, I am just this shards-and-ashes human being, who really gets upset when someone says something bad about me. If it's true, I cop to it. If I have any good qualities, it's that.

  Harlan Ellison

  People, Upset, Quality

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 8, 2008.

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• Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind! Be through my lips to unawakened earth The trumpet of a prophecy! O, wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spring, Winter, Wind

  'Ode to the West Wind' (1819) l. 65

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• Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.

  Moliere

  Thinking, Dust, Long

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• We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split to fall, The elm tear up at the root and topple like a crown, The pine crack at the base - we had to watch them all. The ash, the lovely cedar. We had to watch them fall. They went so softly under the loud flails of air, Before that fury they went down like feathers, With all the hundred springs that flowered in their hair, and all the years, endured in all the weathers - To fall as if they were nothing, as if they were feathers.

  May Sarton

  Strong, Spring, Fall

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• If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society; if it is not to be restored, still we ought to understand conservative ideas so that we may rake from the ashes what scorched fragments of civilizations escape the conflagration of unchecked will and appetite.

  Russell Kirk

  Order, Civilization, Ideas

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.11, Regnery Publishing

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• Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.

  Gustav Mahler

  Flames, Tradition

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• Hotel tea is when you have to mix together a plastic envelope containing too much sugar, a small plastic pot of something which is not milk but has curdled anyway, and a thin brown packet seemingly containing the ashes of a cremated mole.

  Frank Muir

  Tea, Together, Sugar

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• God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash
  a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past

  Ani DiFranco

  Eye, Past, Phoenix

  Song: 32 Flavors

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• Ash Wednesday is full of joy...The source of all sorrow is the illusion that of ourselves we are anything but dust.

  Thomas Merton

  Dust, Joy, Sorrow

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• I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Healing, Flames, Mountain

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.94, Penguin

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• My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns;Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals;The metal in this furnace wrought are men's defiled souls.

  Robert Southwell

  Blow, Love Is, Men

  Robert Southwell (1856). “Poetical Works”, p.98

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• We flew over to England by the same route Churchill took. It was easy. All we had to do was follow the cigar ashes.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Humorous, England

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• How to re-light the fire the very ashes of which are scattered?

  Paul Gauguin

  Fire, Light, Burning

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.

  John B. Tabb

  Pain, Heart, Clouds

  John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

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• So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely scattered shouts of joy,the survivors of the abyss sat hollow-eyed and silent, trying to comprehend a world without war.

  Paul Fussell

  Dream, War, Past

  Paul Fussell (1990). “Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays”

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• We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire. I like that image. There has to be a unifying theory. I think there is a continuity of some kind, that my love for my wife will go on past the death of my body. Nature is perfect.

  William Shatner

  Past, Thinking, Fire

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• A romantic relationship might very well have been initiated by God, but the moment our focus moves from our Prince to a human love story is the moment we cease to guard our sanctuary, and our entire foundation for success crumbles into ashes. A relationship that leads us closer to our Prince and carefully protects our inner sanctuary is the key to discovering romance as it was truly intended to be...a little taste of heaven on earth.

  Leslie Ludy

  Moving, Keys, Romance

  Leslie Ludy (2009). “Authentic Beauty: The Shaping of a Set-Apart Young Woman”, p.161, Multnomah

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• My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

  Daisy Ashford

  Absence, Grapes, Sour

  'The Young Visiters' (1919) ch. 8

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• What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost incidental. Even blood gets forgotten eventually, bleached into myth which are bleached of all colour into ashes of myth.

  Luke Davies

  Blood, Years, Way

  Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.7, Penguin

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• I cry out from the ashes, burned with sin and shame. I ask you Lord to make me whole again.

  Rebecca St. James

  Sadness, Cry, Sin

  Song: Pray, Album: Pray

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