Quotes About Ashes

If an atomic bomb fell on Raleigh, it wouldn't be news in Benson unless some of the debris and ashes fell on Benson.

Sometimes a reckoning comes of all the lives we have lost, and sometimes we take it upon ourselves to burn them to ashes.

Love me this first day of June. I'd rather sleep with ashes than priestly wisdom. Of all the lonely places in the world this is best where debris is human. I kiss the precious ashes that fall from fiery flesh. On these familiar shapes I lay my kisses down.

I kept nothing of myself but the ashes.

I am fading away. Slowly but surely. Like the sailor who watches his home shore gradually disappear, I watch my past recede. My old life still burns within me, but more and more of it is reduced to the ashes of memory.

I want a church service with New Orleans funeral jazz music. I'd like people to say a few words about me and I may have my ashes scattered in the sea.

I AM GOING TO BITE THAT DRAGON'S HEAD OFF AND STUFF HIM IN A VOLCANO," Glory roared. "Too late," Tsunami said. "Since that's kind of already happened. The volcano part, I mean. He's a pile of ashes now.

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.

It was since he returned home that the evil eye of discontent had been on him, making empty air of his attempts to find a philosophy of his own, turning to ashes whatever he grasped.

Tabitha Bethia, la gatta rognosa, miagolava allungandosi e stiracchiandosi davanti al fuoco e un ciocco di legno si spostava nel focolare sbriciolandosi in cenere.

Here I am, Cassandra. And this is my city under ashes. And these are my prophet's staff and ribbons. And this is my head full of doubts.

Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.

Are you afraid?" Dtui asked her. "No more than I was about being born," Bpoo replied. "It's all part of the natural equation. Ashes to ashes. It's just that when you leave, you have some say in your wardrobe.

this is what death does to you, it takes and takes, so that all that is left of your memories is a faint tracing of spilled ash.

I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash and then packing it with ashes until keloid scars rose up. He called it his second smile.

Did you know that bone china had real bones in it?" Poppy said, tapping a porcelain cheek. "Her clay was made from human bones. Little-girl bones. That hair threaded through the scalp is the little girl's hair. And the body of the doll is filled with her leftover ashes.

All of those messy Christmases, each a perfect gem, all gone, all turned to ash.

for Michael but found herself picking up her glass and taking a large slug, her psyche telling her to pour something numbing over the hot ashes of jealousy smouldering inside her.

Democracy is always the work of kings. Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilize the land they are cast upon.

for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return

He has outlived dissatisfaction. This is what remains after the passing of everything, the disciplined sadness of stoicism. This is the cooling. For so long it's so hot, everything in life is so intense, and then little by little it goes away, and then comes the cooling, and then comes the ashes.

Wednesday's glory had become Thursday's ashes.

The Ashes are the biggest Test series played in the world.

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