Quotation Explorer - 'Ashes'

Life is like a lit cigarette. The past is ashes, the present is burning, and the future is up in smoke. Fast as a breath; inhale exhale. - Anthony Liccione
Some women become reckless with the fire, some find every way to put it out and rise above with the ashes left behind. - Nikki Rowe
A dead man’s vanity: his ashes full of life that cannot be deceased before a living being’s pride. - Munia Khan
Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes! - Abigail van Buren
If god is the root cause for our degradation destroy that god. If it is religion destroy it. If it is Manu Darma, Gita, or any other Mythology (Purana), burn them to ashes. If it is temple, tank, or festival, boycott them. Finally if it is our politics, come forward to declare it openly. - Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Reality tastes like ashes - Azereth Skivel
‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes. - Simone de Beauvoir
We lose the understanding that death always begets life of some sort, and that life is always an opportunist, persistently standing ready to build something out of the smoldering ashes and raise something up out of the tangled carnage. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Conquest is made from the ashes of one's enemies. - Starscream
Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person. - Gerard Way
Some women born to raise a beautiful families while some women are born to build an empire from ashes and rule the rest. - Pradeepa Pandiyan
When love becomes a perfect fire it leaves only ashes. - Marty Rubin
I'm dreaming of sleeping next to you and feeling like a lost little boy in a brand new town I'm counting my sheep and each one that passes is another dream to ashes And they all fall down.- Sleeping to Dream - Jason Mraz
I am sick of the dern box! I have not only stepped out of the hateful piece of cardboard, I have burned it and scattered the ashes over my past. - Tanya R. Simon
When love dies, the heart's ashes do not leave on the wind—they rest on the mantelpiece of the soul, darkening the sunrise we once saw to be beautiful. - A.M. Hudson
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me,And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’dTo dwell in presence of immortal youth,Immortal age beside immortal youth,And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus - Alfred Tennyson
Sometimes even doing the right thing will leave you with scars. But beauty comes from ashes, too. And I know that to be true. - Natalie Lloyd
we were made to be like this; filled with ashes and feels, burning down to what we dont want to be and what we dont want to see. sins? they are just a choice. - malaika tanweer
Now your burnt ashes float to mingle with others And as I wait for another day I keep singing another song How did I go astray! - Lindiwe Mabuza
In the midst of life we are in death. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. - Book of Common Prayer
Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all? - Dejan Stojanovic
Whether for good or for bad, the Iran that ultimately rises out of the ashes of last summer's uprising will be unlike the Iran we know today, and for that we can thank the Green Movement, not another round of useless sanctions. - Reza Aslan
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life. - Charles Bukowski
I am a phoenix rising from the ashes of my pain and suffering. Today I am reborn, today begins my growth and change. - Kaitlin DS Cammie
We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others. - Elisabeth Elliot
Is there a chance?A fragment of light at the end of the tunnel?A reason to fight?Is there a chance you may change your mind?Or are we ashes and wine? - A Fine Frenzy
In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn. - Octavia E. Butler
Dies iral, dies illaSolvet Saeclum in FavillaTeste David cum SilyllaThat Day of Wrath, that day of burningSeer and Sibly speak concerningAll the world to ashes turning - George Smith
The ashes of the past drift away on the winds of the future. ~ , Author - Ryan Mark
From ashes I cameTo ashes, I'll return.But tonight I'm contentTo sit here and burn. - C.B. Roberts
You had the whole world to reduce it to the ashes and surrender it to the wind but the tragedy is;You chose the one, you chose. - Siddharth Bhatnagar
With no sense of smell, your memories dropped like pennies out of a ripped pocket, until the past was ashes and your parents were blanks: nothing more than the holes in Swiss cheese. - Ilsa Bick
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. - Carl Sandburg
And though they fell as ashes, their shadows drifted as leaves. - Hubert Martin
I guess we speak pretty loosely, don't we, about looking forward to the Ashes and all that—and we are, but it's not with both eyes. We've got one eye on that and one eye on what we need to get in place to make sure we're the best team we can be for November. - Ricky Ponting
Some of us die long before our last breath. We perish in the fire of love, reduced to ashes in the consuming blaze. No, we do not die when our hearts cease to beat, but when they start beating the first timefor someone else. - Shakieb Orgunwall
To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. - Bible
Up from the ashes come the roses of success. - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Finally- no more ruddy show for the folks back home. No pretending it's all beer and skittles and no one ever gets hurt.- Phoenix and Ashes - Mercedes Lacky
Mr. President, it is time for you to give me back my country. You can either continue to make fools of the people who elected a tyrant like you or let the country rise phoenix-like from the ashes. - Nilantha Ilangamuwa
Never tell yourself that it's going to be okay. Because more times than you know, it wont be okay. You'll crash and burn and your dreams will turn to ashes. - Amber Pollard
When you can share the lessons you learnt through tears and heartache and others find life in it and are better off for it, then beauty has come out of those ashes. - TemitOpe Ibrahim
Should you wish to pursue the infinity of truth, you must make yourself humble as ashes and vigorous as the wind. - Abhijit Naskar
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. - Neil Gaiman
My life would be sour grapes and ashes without you - Daisy Ashford
Two turtle doves will show theeWhere my cold ashes lieAnd sadly murmuring tell theeHow in tears I did die - Nikolai Gogol
In the ashes of adversity, lies opportunity. - S.L. Coelho
She could have risen from the ashes. Instead, she smoldered in the embers. - Thinking Out Loud
Some of us die long before our last breath. We perish in the fire of love, reduced to ashes in the consuming blaze. No, we do not die when our hearts cease to beat, but when they start beating the first timefor somebody else. - Shakieb Orgunwall
And there comes a time that what is happening does not suit you anymore...You flip a coin, light a match and throw it behind your back and let everything purify in ashes while you are moving forward.There is no reason to be afraid of the new, the old has power no more - Konstantinos Kyriakou.K.K
Then I will speak upon the ashes. - Sojourner Truth
For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath. - Alice Miller
Im not going to change my ways, just to please you or appease you, inside a crowd five billion proud willing to punch it out, right, wrong, weak strong, ashes to ashes all fall down. - Dave Matthews Band
Arise, my love, let us try to set these ashes on fire again! - Anthony Liccione
Rejoice with glitters of ashes tonightSparkling for moon's spiced silver biteUpon skin of darkness, loving night moreStorm begins unlocking cold wind's door - Munia Khan
Here the whole world (stars, water, air,And field, and forest, as they wereReflected in a single mind)Like cast off clothes was left behindIn ashes, yet with hopes that she,Re-born from holy poverty,In lenten lands, hereafter mayResume them on her Easter Day."(Epitaph for Joy Davidman) - C.S. Lewis
In my experience endings are false positives. Perhaps like a phoenix, out of the ashes of destruction we could be reborn."-Cassandra Rainbow in PHOENIX- - Vaun Murphrey
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