Elsa Triolet famous quotes

Time burns but leaves no ashes.
-- Elsa Triolet

#Ashes

There's no place where one can breathe as freely as on the deck of a ship.
-- Elsa Triolet

#Ships #Breathe #Deck

Justice, like vengeance, is not good eaten cold.
-- Elsa Triolet

#Justice #Vengeance #Cold

To be a prophet it is sufficient to be a pessimist.
-- Elsa Triolet

#Pessimism #Prophet #Pessimist

Tolerance enlarges the circle of our acquaintances.
-- Elsa Triolet

#Circles #Tolerance #Acquaintance

I love the melody of an unknown language, the strange food, all the surprises of a strange town, and my own impatience and curiosity ... I love traveling as others love the gaming table; I anticipate a new place as others anticipate the next number to come up.
-- Elsa Triolet

#Travel #Numbers #Curiosity

Do not be astonished at anything, even happiness.
-- Elsa Triolet

There is no happiness for a society ruled by distrust.
-- Elsa Triolet

#Distrust

You can kill time or kill yourself, it comes to the same thing in the end.
-- Elsa Triolet

#Time #Ends #Killing Yourself

Ash, I want you. Bad, very very bad. But you deserve better than this

Adjusting to Beau being a caveman over a girl had been almost as hard as seeing him with Ash. Beau didn't do jealous, not until Ashton had become his. Now he was a freaking lunatic.

Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!

I guess they have had 16 years when they haven't even been close in an Ashes series but we have found some sections of the crowd to be scathing and harsh. That has not been overly enjoyable. We have seen a pretty ugly side in some supporters.

Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture.

Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.

Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin [can't all be the first Ash!]

I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.