#ashes

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#ashes #be true #dust #endure #facts

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

— Walter Savage Landor

#burn #few #few things #incense #lighter

My mother was a phoenix who always expected to rise from the ashes of her latest disaster. She loved being Judy Garland. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#ashes #being #disaster #expected #garland

Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show. ↗

— Nana Visitor

#going #i #legs #now #out

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

#better #die #facing #fathers #fearful

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#clashes #demands #does #his #likewise

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

#ashes #contract #cremated #given #i

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