Dust Quotes

• Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • People
  • Why
  • Change

• THIS dust was once the Man, / Gentle, plain, just and resolute—under whose cautious hand, / Against the foulest crime in history known in any land or age, / Was saved the Union of These States.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • History
  • Crime
  • Dust

• Lilt pulled away. "I saw what he was doing, so I cleared a path for him. I helped him do it..." She shook her head, tears tracking the dust off her face, and turned to stare at the fallen tower. "Have we all gone mad to want this?

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Path
  • Mad
  • Tears

• History is a great dust heap.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • History
  • Dust
  • Heap

• Here lies interred in the eternity of the past, from whence there is no resurrection for the days - whatever there may be for the dust - the thirty-third year of an ill-spent life, which, after a lingering disease of many months sank into a lethargy, and expired, January 22d, 1821, A.D. leaving a successor inconsolable for the very loss which occasioned its existence.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Life
  • Dust
  • Ill-spent

• 'Yea and I beheld Sisyphus in strong torment, grasping a monstrous stone with both his hands. He was pressing thereat with hands and feet, and trying to roll the stone upward toward the brow of the hill. But oft as he was about to hurl it over the top, the weight would drive him back, so once again to the plain rolled the stone, the shameless thing. And he once more kept heaving and straining, and the sweat the while was pouring down his limbs, and the dust rose upwards from his head.

  

  Homer
  • Strong
  • Sad
  • Hands

• Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page. They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day. Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then. Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Dreams
  • Page
  • Blow off

• Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

  

  Samuel Ullman
  • Fear
  • Spirit
  • Dust

• It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Earth

• The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Consequences
  • Dust
  • English Rule

• The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart.

  

  Charles Wright
  • Heart
  • Dust
  • Ache

• His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Talent
  • Natural
  • Butterfly

• For I had expected always Some brightness to hold in trust, Some final innocence To save from dust

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Hope
  • Expected
  • Innocence

• Get back up, shake the dust off and keep going. Keep going, because Hollywood is set up to make you fail.

  

  Gabriel Campisi
  • Up
  • Hollywood
  • Failing

• The day I leave the power, inside my pockets will only be dust.

  

  Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
  • Power
  • Leave
  • Pockets

• When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • God
  • She
  • Nature

• Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Earth
  • Feet
  • Bits

• She would never change, but one day at the touch of a fingertip she would fall to dust.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Change
  • Dust
  • Touch

• It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Important
  • Book
  • Smell

• I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to my wicked heart's content.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Medical
  • Dust
  • Assistance

• One should never be ashamed to cry. Tears are rain on the dust of earth.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Tears
  • Ashamed
  • Dust

• A man is sometimes lost in a dust of his own raising.

  

  David Ruggles
  • Sometimes
  • Dust
  • Raising

• Did he think to win them over like this? She remembered the boyish charm he had once possessed and wondered where it had gone. Perhaps like a bag of gold dust with an open top, the winds of time had swirled it away in a glittering spiral until there was nothing left but an empty pouch.

  

  Elizabeth Chadwick
  • Remembered
  • Wondered
  • Glittering

• But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Sweet
  • Tree
  • Dawn

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