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Ashes Quotes

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

You must be prepared to consume yourself in the blaze of your own fire; how can you be reborn if you have not first been reduced to dust?
Authors on Ashes Quotes: Sherrilyn Kenyon Cassandra Clare Sarah Rees Brennan Frank McCourt Gustav Mahler John Green Philip Roth Mark Hart Melissa Marr Martial Winston Churchill Elisabeth Elliot Sylvia Plath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Brandon Sanderson Friedrich Nietzsche George Herbert Abbi Glines Annie Dillard Thomas Merton Carl Sandburg Leonard Cohen Don DeLillo Margaret Atwood Mehmet Murat Ildan Elsa Triolet William Hazlitt Octavia Butler Joan Rivers Billy Corgan Seneca the Younger Marilyn Manson Lorna Luft
2.
Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.
Bhagat Singh

Every atom of Ash is vibrating with my ardour I am such an Unconventional Thinker that I am liberated even in Prison.
3.
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.
Robert Downey, Jr.

Folks climb from the ruins as, eventually, they are endowed with a conviction in the likelihood of victory despite seemingly insurmountable impediments.
4.
In a world of smoke and ashes, you are milk and honey
India.Arie

In a world of despair and destruction, you are solace and sweetness.
5.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.
Gustav Mahler

6.
ashes or diamonds foe or friend we're all equal in the end
Roger Waters

7.
I long for the day that "Roe v. Wade" is sent to the ash heap of history.
Mike Pence

8.
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.
Thomas Cranmer

9.
When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.
David Lee Roth

10.
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

11.
My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.
Daisy Ashford

12.
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.
Lee Kuan Yew

13.
I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants.
Tommy Chong

14.
In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
Octavia Butler

15.
Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

16.
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.
Tracy Pollan

17.
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
Walter Savage Landor

18.
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

19.
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!'
Mark Hart

20.
Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes...
Mumia Abu-Jamal

21.
Without peace, all other dreams vanish and are reduced to ashes.
Jawaharlal Nehru

22.
Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
Zygmunt Bauman

23.
I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes
. I burnt my fingers.
Antonio Machado

24.
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen

25.
Whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us.
Ming-Dao Deng

26.
To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.
Chief Seattle

27.
Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.
H. G. Wells

28.
Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.
Gustav Mahler

29.
Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.
Frank McCourt

30.
Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!
Abigail Van Buren

31.
We can take from the past its fires, and not its ashes.
Jean Jaures

32.
I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan.
Shigeru Yoshida

33.
We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.
William Shatner

34.
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.
Miriam Toews

35.
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.
Thomas Merton

36.
My paintings are only the ashes of my art
Yves Klein

37.
Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
Rumi

38.
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.
Thomas Merton

39.
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.
Marilyn Manson

40.
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?
David Levithan

41.
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.
Annie Dillard

42.
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.
Khalil Gibran

43.
Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.
John Perry Barlow

44.
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.
Fyodor Dostoevsky

45.
Then I will speak upon the ashes.
Sojourner Truth

46.
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.
Gloria E. AnzaldĂșa

47.
God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.
Karen Kingsbury

48.
We flew over to England by the same route Churchill took. It was easy. All we had to do was follow the cigar ashes.
Bob Hope

49.
Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
Joan of Arc

50.
Living fire begets cold, impotent ash.
Chinua Achebe