Ashes Quotes - Page 24

• Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes

  Marcus Aurelius

  Too Late, Glory, Late

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• I want to love you simply, in words not spoken: tinder to the flame which transforms it to ash
  I want to love you simply, in signs not expressed: clouds to the rain which make them evanescent (Aku Ingin-I Want)

  Sapardi Djoko Damono

  Rain, Love You, Clouds

  Sapardi Djoko Damono, “I Want”

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• How can I appreciate light from an aging
  sun shining through new configurations neither pine
  nor ash? How can I extol the nuturing
  fragrances from the spires, the spicules
  of a landscape not yet formed or seeded?

  Pattiann Rogers

  Light, Appreciate, Shining

  Pattiann Rogers (1994). “Firekeeper: new & selected poems”

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• But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.

  Sarah Vowell

  Silence, Guy, Loner

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from May 18, 2015

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• Maybe I'll be like the man in the Hanging Tree still waiting for an answer.' Gale who I have never seen cry has tears in his eyes. To keep them from spilling over. I reach forward and press my lips against his. We taste of heat, ashes and misery.

  Suzanne Collins

  Eye, Men, Tree

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.130, Scholastic Inc.

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• What is it that dies? A log of wood dies to become a few planks. The planks die to become a chair. The chair dies to become a piece of firewood, and the firewood dies to become ash. You give different names to the different shapes the wood takes, but the basic substance is there always. If we could always remember this, we would never worry about the loss of anything. We never lose anything; we never gain anything. By such discrimination we put an end to unhappiness. (118-119)

  Swami Satchidananda

  Loss, Names, Giving

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• ‎And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire.

  Charles Dickens

  Fire, Wish, Weakness

  Charles Dickens (2005). “A Tale of Two Cities - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.143, Prestwick House Inc

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• Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Dream, Thinking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke”, p.126, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• My experiences of traveling abroad and going to Italy with my father, having to break down a gigantic electric chair to get on trains. You've got three minutes. You go to Pompeii and there are shockingly few accessible hotels in a city that was covered in volcanic ash.

  Zach Anner

  Father, Cities, Three

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

  Thomas Gray

  Nature, Fire, Voice

  Thomas Gray (1825). “The works of Thomas Gray,: containing his poems and correspondence, with memoirs of his life and writings”, p.124

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• Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.

  Victor Hugo

  Ignorance, Fate, Men

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• A man like Fidel Castro doesn't die: He is in the hearts and minds of the children who lined the streets when his ashes were driven from Havana, tracing the route of the revolution back to Santiago de Cuba.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Children, Heart, Men

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you leave your ashes to be composted.

  Bette Midler

  Shuffle, Mortals

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• [My] pictures are about memory and forgetfulness. The evidence is dissolving. Bones crumble; human ash returns to soil; teeth, sandals, hair, bullets, axes disperse into atoms and molecules. Footprints in the snow will be erased by the next storm. The evidence of evil, like the evidence of good, obeys the universal laws of entropy. Heat cools, matter disintegrates, memories fade. If we let them.

  Simon Norfolk

  Memories, Axes, Law

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• But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found, Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserv'd virginity, And your quaint honour turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I think do there embrace.

  Andrew Marvell

  Song, Lying, Thinking

  "To His Coy Mistress" l. 31 (1681)

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• We can take from the past its fires, and not its ashes.

  Jean Jaures

  Past, Fire

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• Love is the fire in which everything is reduced to ashes. Only God will be saved. Only God cannot burn.

  Rajneesh

  Love Is, Fire, Gods Will

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• What Secretary Ash Carter is looking at is the constant pressure that Russia's putting on our European allies. The way that Russia is trying to move the boundaries of the post-World War II Europe. The way that he is trying to set European countries against one another, seizing territory, holding it in Crimea. Beginning to explore whether they could make some inroads in the Baltics.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, War, Moving

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• One of the most powerful sayings I have come across is by Imam ash-Shafi'I, "My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me."

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Powerful, Heart, Knowing

  Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out. In discovering the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals, I am working towards restoring the common ground that once existed when people lived in harmony with animals.

  Gregory Colbert

  Men, Animal, People

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• Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with nature. Ashes and Snow is a 21st-century bestiary filled with species from around the world. Nature’s orchestra includes not just Homo sapiens but elephants, whales, manatees, eagles, cheetahs, orangutans, and many others.

  Gregory Colbert

  Elephants, Eagles, Whales

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• Some combinations of people are toxic, you know? You have to find the right one that isn't just going to explode into fiery ash and destruction.

  Taylor Swift

  People, Toxic, Destruction

  "Taylor Swift Wears the Pants". Interview with Laura Brown, www.harpersbazaar.com. November 12, 2012.

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• What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Fire, Choke

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Wind, Forever

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• When I started Ashes and Snow in 1992, I set out to explore the relationship between man and animals from the inside out.

  Gregory Colbert

  Animal, Men, Snow

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