Quotes with ashes

  • The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
  • Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
  • I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
  • Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
  • It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Bhagavad Gita As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Bayard Taylor Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Philip Roth Each book starts from ashes.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Paul De Man Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
    Paul De Man
    In Belgiƫ geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial Glory paid to our ashes comes too late.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Carl Sandburg I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Groucho Marx I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Jack London I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
    Jack London
    American writer (ps. by John Griffith Chaney) (1876 - 1916)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Anne Baxter It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
    Anne Baxter
    American actress (1923 - 1985)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Bobby Darin Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Abigail Van Buren People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Carl Sagan Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.
    Cosmos
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Denis Waitley That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Caitlin Doughty The biggest problem is the funerals that don't exist. People call the funeral home, they pick up the body, they mail the ashes to you, no grief, no happiness, no remembrance, no nothing. That happens more often than it doesn't in the United States.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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