A Handful Of Dust Quotes

#1. The past is like a handful of dust. It filters through your fingers, disappearing little by little. I wish, for one day, I could go back. In another life I would do things differently.

Katy Perry

#2. And my heart is a handful of dust, / And the wheels go over my head, / And my bones are shaken with pain, / For into a shallow grave they are thrust, / Only a yard beneath the street,' something, something, 'enough to drive one mad.

Edward St. Aubyn

#3. Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

Eliphas Levi

#4. I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

T. S. Eliot

#5. My go-to author for knowing it all is Evelyn Waugh. 'A Handful of Dust' is as perfect as a book can get.

Laurie Graham

#6. I can show you fear in a handful of dust

T. S. Eliot

#7. Those people who leap from personal bafflement at a natural phenomenon straight to a hasty invocation of the supernatural are no better than the fools who see a conjuror bending a spoon and leap to the conclusion that it is 'paranormal'.

Richard Dawkins

#8. Beauty is sometimes born of pain

Sheri L. Swift

#9. I love crowds. They make me feel part of something big and important.

Barbara Delinsky

#10. I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

John Mayer

#11. I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.

Alfred Nobel

#12. Girls like you want to cut guy's nuts off and hang 'em from your rearview mirror.

Simone Elkeles

#13. People are so quick to judge and make decisions for themselves about situations they know absolutely nothing about.

LeAnn Rimes

#14. But everything I have to give, I'll give to you

Ray Lamontagne

#15. Tom tingled at the knowledge that he was the only one to hear any of it: the only living man for the better part of a hundred miles in any direction. He thought of the gulls nestled into their wiry homes on the cliffs, the fish hovering stilly in the safety of the

M.L. Stedman

#16. Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale.

Langston Hughes

#17. Poetry is a connection to a change within you.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#18. there's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--"
a small boy appeared beside them and, swinging a handful of banana peels, flung them valiantly in the direction of the potomac.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#19. If I take dust in my hand and ask you if that is all the dust there is, you will answer that dust is everywhere on earth. More specks than can ever be numbered. So I can give you a handful of truth only. Besides this there are other truths. More than can ever be numbered.

Nadeem Aslam

#20. I wanted to make a very cohesive-sounding album. Anyone who has listened to me and brought me into their living rooms and their bedrooms - I am making this for them.

Kevin Drew

#21. It was us, I thought. Jamie and me. We had fallen down a rabbit hole, fallen into Susan's house, and nothing made sense, not at all, not anymore.

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley