Ashes Quotes

To rise from the ashes only to have them rain on you from above.

~ Karina Halle

The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.

~ Pierre Corneille

When I am dead, I charge you to mingle our ashes and bury us together.

~ Madeline Miller

Bury us, and mark our names above. Let us be free.

~ Madeline Miller

The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.

~ Daphne Du Maurier

It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.

~ Jenny Trout

She stood above the sink and broke the Swarovski glass frame – a wedding gift – with her hands. Her thumb got cut. As blood drops fell into the sink, like mercury balls she thought, she lit the photo on fire. Ashes fell into the sink. Fire and vermilion. Ashes and blood. Her marriage from start to finish.

~ Meghna Pant

Smoke your pain but keep the ashes forever.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I also remember being struck by de Sade's will, in which he asked that his ashes be scattered to the four corners of the earth in the hope that humankind would forget both his writings and his name. I'd like to be able to make that demand; commemorative ceremonies are not only false but dangerous, as are all statues of famous men. Long live forgetfulness, I've always said—the only dignity I see is in oblivion.

~ Luis Buñuel

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

~ Jawaharlal Nehru