Ashes Quotes

you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.

People rise out of the ashes because, at some point, they are invested with a belief in the possibility of triumph over seemingly impossible odds.

In a world of smoke and ashes, you are milk and honey

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end

I long for the day that "Roe v. Wade" is sent to the ash heap of history.

In the midst of life we are in death, earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection.

For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.

When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

For reasons of sentiment, I would like part of my ashes to be mixed up with Mama's, and both her ashes and mine put side by side in the columbarium. We were joined in life and I would like our ashes to be joined after this life.

I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants.

In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

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.

When we get ashes we are not publicly proclaiming our greatness, but God’s. We are not saying, 'look at how great I am,' but 'ask me about how great my God is!'

Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes...

Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.

Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us.

To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.

Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

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

I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.

I learned another thing, which is that just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

My paintings are only the ashes of my art

Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness is raised precisely because this is a day of mercy, and the just do not need a savior.

Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.

why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.

I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the only way to go out.

Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.

Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may livethrough its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods out of my entrails.

For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

We flew over to England by the same route Churchill took. It was easy. All we had to do was follow the cigar ashes.

Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!

Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.