Dust Quotes

• All we are is dust in the wind, dude.

  Ted Theodore

  Wind, Excellent

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• Compare the silent rose of the sun And rain, the blood-rose living in its smell, With this paper, this dust. That states the point.

  Wallace Stevens

  Flower, Rain, Blood

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.252, Vintage

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• Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

  George R. R. Martin

  Past, Done, May

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.727, Bantam

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• Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

  Socrates

  Fall, Sand, Fingers

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• Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.

  Marianne Moore

  Beauty, Everlasting

  Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.138, Penguin

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• The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.

  Saint Augustine

  Blood, House, Soul

  "Decretum". Book by Gratian, IX. 32. 2, c. 12 AD.

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• We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Stars, Spinning

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• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Soul, Purpose

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• The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Intangible Quality, Rainbow

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.33, Heron Dance Press

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• Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Writing, Insult To Injury

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• I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Fear, Atheism

  The Waste Land l. 25 (1922)

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• Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living truth. Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Science, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

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• His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust.

  Gautama Buddha

  May, Wheels, Fortune

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• ...the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

  Moses

  Book, Return, Spirit

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• Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

  Solomon

  Wisdom, Earth, Return

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• Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Time, Blow, Watches

  "Expulsion". Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's letter to the Secretariat of the Soviet Writers' Union (November 12, 1969) as translated in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, 1970.

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• It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Joy, Sorrow, Alive

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2005). “Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark”, p.76, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

  H. G. Wells

  Stars, People, Swim

  H. G. Wells (1898). “The War of the Worlds”, p.9

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• Einstein’s 1905 paper came out and suddenly changed people’s thinking about space-time. We’re again in the middle of something like that. When the dust settles, time—whatever it may be—could turn out to be even stranger and more illusory than even Einstein could imagine.

  Carlo Rovelli

  Science, Thinking, Space

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• In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it, if a hydrogen atom were magnified to the size of a church, an electron would be a speck of dust in that church.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Baseball, Science, Hydrogen Atom

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• Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Hem, Garments

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.162, New World Library

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• My father and I, we can't soothe each other. I'm too young, he's too old, and we don't know how to talk anymore if we ever did

  Karen Hesse

  Father, Young, Know How

  Karen Hesse, Cynthia Rylant, Cynthia Lord, Ann M. Martin (2013). “Scholastic Newbery Collection”, p.245, Scholastic Inc.

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• Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

  John le Carre

  Writing, Pie, Mud

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• Become dust - and they will throw thee in the air; Become stone - and they will throw thee on glass.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Glasses, Air, Literature

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• The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Devil, Not Afraid, Covered

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