Ashes Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken by the common man in centuries, he had all about him the ruin of language, evidence of toppled suburbs, grass growing among the mosaics, and voices that had been choked with poison, iron, age, or ash.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Reading, Men, Voice

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• To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Self, Dust, Sea

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.541, Open Road Media

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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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• Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Phoenix

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• Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.

  Sylvia Plath

  Men, Hair, Red

  "Lady Lazarus" l. 82 (1963)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and yet the change in us was irreversible, and neither of us would even search for a way back. It was impossible. The fire was out. Only a few live coals lurked in the ashes, searing unexpectedly at the incautious touch.

  Dick Francis

  Fire, People, Coal

  Dick Francis (1981). “Whip hand: Trial run ; Twice shy”

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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 god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Eye, Hatred

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• Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There's always preexisting, and having no end. There's the notion of being all powerful-because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shalt return. And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Art, Pain, Memories

  FaceBook post by Diana Gabaldon from Apr 01, 2014

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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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• Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud--and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Two, Feelings, Forgiving

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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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• 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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• 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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• I love him. (Artemis) How can you say that? You don’t even understand what love means. Love isn’t being ashamed to be seen with the one you care about. It isn’t about punishment or hurt. Love is what gives you the strength you need to face anything no matter how brutal or frightening. It’s what allowed Ash to be beaten rather than tell his father about you. It’s what allowed him to be gutted on the floor at your feet rather than publicly shame you. And you spat on him for that love and tore him apart. For a goddess, you’re pathetic. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Father, Mean

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• After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

  Umberto Eco

  Passion, Fire, Light

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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