Ashes Quotes - Page 18

• You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

  Pablo Neruda

  Autumn, Moon, Fire

  Pablo Neruda (2009). “The Captain's Verses/Los Versos Del Capitan”, p.77, New Directions Publishing

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• Well Vin says that there's something behind all this, right? Some evil force of doom or whatever? Well, if I were said force of doom, then I certainly wouldn't have used my powers to turn the land black. It just lacks flair. Red. Now, that would be an interesting color. Think of the possibilities--if the ash were red, the rivers would run like blood. Black is so monotonous that you can forget about it, but red--you'd always be thinking, 'Why, look at that. That hill is red. That evil force of doom trying to destroy me certainly has style.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Running, Thinking, Blood

  Brandon Sanderson (2011). “Mistborn Trilogy”, p.1499, Macmillan

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• Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

  Annie Dillard

  Giving, Safe, Lost

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.88, Canongate Books

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• People always say it's harder to heal a wounded heart than a wounded body. Bullshit. It's exactly the opposite—a wounded body takes much longer to heal. A wounded heart is nothing but ashes of memories. But the body is everything. The body is blood and veins and cells and nerves. A wounded body is when, after leaving a man you’ve lived with for three years, you curl up on your side of the bed as if there’s still somebody beside you. That is a wounded body: a body that feels connected to someone who is no longer there.

  Xiaolu Guo

  Memories, Heart, Men

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• Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to settle here, there, exactly where I would never know, in the dark heart of New York.

  Sylvia Plath

  New York, Heart, Dark

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.59, Hamilton Books

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• I am not one to rely upon the expert procedure. It is the psychology I seek, not the fingerprint or the cigarette ash.

  Agatha Christie

  Rely Upon, Psychology, Experts

  Agatha Christie (1960). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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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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• 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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• 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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• Whether you're moving to a new company or a new department within your current organization, I believe you'll end up miles ahead if you shop for a boss, not a position. You may secure the greatest job in the world, but a miserable boss will turn gold into ashes. ... In many ways, your boss may be more important than the job.

  Pat Heim

  Jobs, Work, Believe

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• All these years I had been sustained by an illusion-happiness through victory- and now that illusion was burned to ashes. I was no more happier, no more fullfilled, for all my achievements. Finally I saw through the clouds I saw that I had never learned how to enjoy life, only how to achieve. All my life i had been busy seeking happiness, but never finding it or sustaining it.

  Dan Millman

  Clouds, Years, Enjoy Life

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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 don't have much time for stories," Vin said. "Seems that fewer and fewer people do, these days." A canopy kept off the ash, but he seemed unconcerned about the mists. "It makes me wonder what is so alluring about the real world that gives them all such a fetish for it. It's not a very nice place these days.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Real, Nice, People

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.226, Macmillan

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• For life is a fire burning along a piece of string--or is it a fuse to a powder keg which we call God?--and the string is what we don't know, our Ignorance, and the trail of ash, which, if a gust of wind does not come, keeps the structure of the string, is History, man's Knowledge, but it is dead, and when the fire has burned up all the string, then man's Knowledge will be equal to God's Knowledge and there won't be any fire, which is Life. Or if the string leads to a powder keg, then there will be a terrific blast of fire, and even the trail of ash will be blown completely away.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Ignorance, Men, Fire

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

  Ba Jin

  Hate, World, Body

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• Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Real, Lying, Book

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• You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Children, Simple

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• Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds and maladministrations so that it has become a study for archaeologists...but it is better to live here in sackcloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  New Orleans, Ohio, Cities

  "Albino zombie snakes and voodoo potions: the legacy of Lafcadio Hearn, raconteur extraordinaire" by Jim Gabour, www.theguardian.com. March 05, 2015.

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• Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan.

  Ray Bradbury

  Friday, Monday, Ems

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Fahrenheit 451: A Novel”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It was the first thing that freed you and the thing that put you in peril. It was the key to the ten gates. I saw them clearly now, each and every one, the gates that were there for me. Ashes, Bones, Grass, Heart, Stone, Love, Sorrow, Blood, Earth, Sky.

  Alice Hoffman

  Heart, Keys, Blood

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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 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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• 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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