Ashes

Ashes may refer to:

  • The Ashes, the Test cricket series between England and Australia
  • The Ashes (rugby league), the rugby league Test series between Great Britain and Australia
  • The Women's Ashes, the women's Test cricket series between England and Australia
  • Ashes (Tristania album)
  • Ashes (The Prophecy album)
  • Ashes (Josh Woodward album)
  • Ashes, a 1985 album by Christian Death
  • Ashes, a 2008 album by Two Steps From Hell
  • Ashes (band), a hardcore punk band from Washington, D.C.
  • Ashes, a 1894 painting by Edvard Munch
  • Ashes (film), a film by director Andrzej Wajda
  • Ashes (film), a 2010 film by director Ajay Naidu
  • Ashes (novel), a novel by novelist Stefan Żeromski
  • Ashes : Poems New & Old, a book by Philip Levine
  • Ashes (play), a play by David Rudkin
  • "Ashes" (Embrace song)
  • "Ashes" (Pain of Salvation song)
  • "Ashes", a song from Trivium's album Ember to Inferno
  • "Ashes", a song from KT Tunstall's album KT Tunstall's Acoustic Extravaganza
  • "Ashes", a song from Witchery's album Don't Fear the Reaper (album)
  • "Ashes", a song from Five Finger Death Punch's album The Way of the Fist
  • The ash remaining after cremation
  • Repenting "in sackcloth and ashes" is mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew 11:21, King James version of the Bible
    • Sackcloth 'n' Ashes, a 1996 album

Famous quotes containing the word ashes:

    “We therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection to eternal life.”
    —Book Of Common Prayer, The. The Burial of the Dead (1662)

    “Surely, of all creatures we eat, we are most brutal to snails. Helix optera is dug out of the earth where he has been peacefully enjoying his summer sleep, cracked like an egg, and eaten raw, presumably alive. Or boiled in oil. Or roasted in the hot ashes of a wood fire.... If God is a snail, Bosch’s depictions of Hell are going to look like a vicarage tea-party.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    “The bird is not in its ounces and inches, but in its relations to Nature; and the skin or skeleton you show me, is no more a heron, than a heap of ashes or a bottle of gases into which his body has been reduced, is Dante or Washington.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)