#ashes

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes. ↗

— Marcus Valerius Martial

#ashes #been #comes #glory #late

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late. ↗

— Marcus Valerius Martial

#comes #glory #late #our #paid

I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract. ↗

— Groucho Marx

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I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain. ↗

— John Mayer

#because #car #crashes #i #know

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

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#dreams #other #peace #reduced #vanish

Hawaii is the best form of comfort for me. When I die, I want to be cremated, and I want half my ashes spread in the Pacific around the island, the rest on the property. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#ashes #best #comfort #cremated #die

But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip balm. And I always brush my eyebrows. I have very thick eyebrows - I'm just now starting to thin them out a bit. ↗

— Denise Richards

#always #balm #bit #brush #curl

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#air #august #din #every #fury

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

#enlighten #flashes #fought #grief #i

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. ↗

— Jack London

#atom #dust #every #glow #i