“In this life, who did you love,
beneath the drifting ashes,
beneath the sheeting banks of air
that barrenly bore our rations?”

“Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

“I love writers who limit themselves, who write beneath their intelligence.”

Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer

“Of all the trees that grow so fair,
Old England to adorn,
Greater are none beneath the Sun,
Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn.”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

“Lying in a featherbed
will not bring you fame, nor staying beneath the quilt,
and he who uses up his life without achieving fame
leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth
than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.”

Dante Alighieri book Inferno

“Do you love this world?
Do you cherish your humble and silky life?
Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

“Few, few shall part where many meet!
The snow shall be their winding-sheet,
And every turf beneath their feet
Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.”

Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) British writer

“I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

“The wet air was as cold as the ashes of love.”

Raymond Chandler book Farewell, My Lovely

“Text in Swedish, roughly translated "Here beneath is the ashes of a man who was in habit of always postponing everything till the day after. However, at last he improved and really died Jan 31 1972."”

Fritiof Nilsson Piraten (1895–1972) Swedish writer