“He'd burn the whole world down til he could dig out you of the ashes.”
Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls
Source: City of Lost Souls
Bk. 5, p. 464
Acts and Monuments (1563)
“He'd burn the whole world down til he could dig out you of the ashes.”
Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls
Source: City of Lost Souls
“Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Faith http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21392/Faith_ <br class="br">From the poems written in English
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay book Lays of Ancient Rome
Horatius, st. 26 & 27; this quote is often truncated to read:
Lays of Ancient Rome (1842)
Context: Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods, And for the tender mother
Who dandled him to rest,
And for the wife who nurses
His baby at her breast,
And for the holy maidens
Who feed the eternal flame,
To save them from false Sextus
That wrought the deed of shame?"
William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879) American journalist
"Valedictory" (29 December 1865) http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1865/12/29/valedictory in the last issue of The Liberator (1 January 1866) <br class="br">The Liberator (1831 - 1866)
“Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Halleluiah amen, you are dismissed.”
Ted Dekker (1962) American writer
Harry Graham (1874–1936) British writer
Tender-Heartedness
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899)
“I will rise again, a foe, fierce, bold,
Though dead, though slain, though burnt to ashes cold.”
Torquato Tasso (1544–1595) Italian poet
Risorgero nemico ognor piu crudo,
Cenere anco sepolto, e spirto ignudo!
Canto IX, stanza 99 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Joseph H. Hertz (1872–1946) British rabbi
Genesis II, 7 (p. 7)
The Pentateuch and Haftorahs (one-volume edition, 1937, ISBN 0-900689-21-8