Quotes: dust
Quotes 1 till 15 of 51.
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Death is a Dialogue between, the Spirit and the Dust.
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Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So it is with people who sometimes cover up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and so quench transcendent glories with a little shining dust.
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
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A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.
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A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
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Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
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Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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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.
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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.
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Eagles that love the high light-penetrated air,
that has no dust and clog of earthborn dust,
must ever dwell in solitude.Source: Chandos
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Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
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For the tourist's
brown pennies scattered at the old church door,
the ragged papooses jump, and bite the dust.Source: Indian Reservation: Caughnawaga (1983)
