Dust Quotes

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. (Pablo Picasso)
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. View quote
Berthold Auerbach
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in the dust. View quote
James Shirley
The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Sceptre and Crown Must tumble down, And in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. View quote
James Shirley
I'm full of dust and guitars. View quote
Syd Barrett
You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise. View quote
Maya Angelou
I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, Like diamonds, we are cut with our own dust. View quote
John Webster
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time. View quote
Marianne Moore
The troubles of our proud and angry dust Are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. (A. E. Housman)
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit. View quote
Salman Rushdie
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should 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. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. View quote
Jack London
Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. View quote
William Shakespeare
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
That we have first rais'd a Dust, and then complain, we cannot see. View quote
George Berkeley
But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it. View quote
Claire Danes
First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life is real Life is earnest And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be. View quote
Alexander Pope
The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued. (Robert Frost)
Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both. View quote
William Cowper
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Who then to frail mortality shall trust, But limns the water, or but writes in dust. View quote
Francis Bacon
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. View quote
T. S. Eliot