Ashes Quotes - Page 23

• Our works in stone, in paint, in print, are spared, some of them, for a few decades or a millennium or two, but everything must finally fall in war, or wear away into the ultimate and universal ash - the triumphs, the frauds, the treasures and the fakes. A fact of life: we're going to die. "Be of good heart," cry the dead artists out of the living past. "Our songs will all be silenced, but what of it? Go on singing." Maybe a man's name doesn't matter all that much.

  Orson Welles

  Song, War, Fall

  "F for Fake". Documentary, 1973.

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• I can't do this Ash. It's killing me. Having you this close and not touching you is driving me insane. You're his Ash. You're his. You made your choice and I understand why you chose him. I don't hold it against you but dammit Ash it hurts

  Abbi Glines

  Hurt, Touching You, Choices

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• We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery.

  Carl Sagan

  Discovery, Self, Events

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.348, Ballantine Books

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• She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat and flame that would end the world around them, leaving them nothing but ashes, clean and fierce and forever welded together.

  Christine Feehan

  Flames, Forever, Leaving

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Wild Fire”, p.118, Penguin

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• You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.

  Cassandra Clare

  Fire, Burning, Veins

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• If there's any guy crazy enough to attack me, I'm going to show him the end of the world -- close up. I'm going to let him see the kingdom come with his own eyes. I'm going to send him straight to the southern hemisphere and let the ashes of death rain all over him and the kangaroos and the wallabies.

  Haruki Murakami

  Badass, Crazy, Rain

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• (Ash used his powers to lift Zarek from the floor and pin him roughly against the ceiling.) Stop pushing your luck, boy. I’ve had it with you. (Acheron) Have you ever thought of hiring yourself out to Disneyland? People would pay a fortune for this ride. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, People, Luck

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Night Pleasures/Night Embrace”, p.606, St. Martin's Griffin

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• In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have been riding on that lid a long time, trying continuously to hold down everything beneath it. To become a witness means that you have finally jumped off the lid; now you will only stand aside and will not do anything. Now you will no longer repress, now you will just witness. So everything suppressed will arise, all the repressions will catch fire; you will find flames leaping where there were only ashes.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Fire, Flames

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• Breaking America's oil addiction would not lead to a future of sackcloth and ashes.

  Colman McCarthy

  Oil, America, Addiction

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• Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and nailparings, saliva and snowflakes and moulted feathers of dreams, the wrecks and sprats and shells and fishbones, whale-juice and moonshine and small salt fry dished up by the hidden sea.

  Dylan Thomas

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

  Dylan Thomas (1954). “Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

  Chanakya

  Rivers, Flow, Cleanliness

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• I am ashes where once I was fire.

  Lord Byron

  Fire

  'To the Countess of Blessington' (written 1823, published 1830)

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• She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Heart, Reality, Blow

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• Life always comes out of death. The present rises from the ashes of the past. The future is always possible for those who are willing to re-create it.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Future, Past, Willing

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• This is hard... Never said it would be easy. Nothing good ever is.' -- Josie & Ash

  Maya Banks

  Would Be, Easy, Josie

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• it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.

  Charles Bukowski

  Grief, Ocean, Gone

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “What Matters Most is How Well You”, p.35, Harper Collins

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• Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself.

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Phoenix, Bird

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 5, sc. 5, l. 40

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• Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. Reality is plywood and plastic, done up in mud brown and olive drab. Fantasy tastes of habaneros and honey, cinnamon and cloves, rare red meat and wines as sweet as summer. Reality is beans and tofu, and ashes at the end.

  George R. R. Martin

  Summer, Sweet, Wine

  George R.R. Martin (2008). “Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective”, p.215, Hachette UK

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• St. Ash – who knew? (Gallagher)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Gallagher

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• Now don’t you be covering for him, Ash. (She wagged her finger at Nick.) Are you driving? (Cherise) No, Mom. I’m sitting. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mom, Covering, Sitting

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• An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured the Ashes for England [on Pietersen's Ashes winning innings, 2005

  Simon Barnes

  Winning, Eccentric, Violence

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• I don't think we really measured the enormity of the whole occasion. I'm very, very surprised. We never expected it. When I set out in May we didn't realise how big this was. Only now have we realised the importance of this. [on the 2005 Ashes win

  Duncan Fletcher

  Winning, Thinking, May

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• Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.

  James Sallis

  Fall, Civilization, Two

  James Sallis (2011). “Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling”, p.80, Oldcastle Books

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• Life and death were so unpredictable. So close to each other. We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave the world. I was still in it, barely, and as I looked up from the ashes, everything around me seemed so sweet and so beautiful. The trees. The stars. The moon. I was alive -- and I was glad I was.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Sweet, Stars

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy Complete Series”, p.758, Penguin UK

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• We swallowed a few bites-not to much scince the food of the gods can burn you to ashes is you overindulge. I guess thats why you don't see many fat gods

  Rick Riordan

  Fats, Bites

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