Quotes About Traces

Dinner will be served at the usual time and I am pleased to say there will be no discernible traces left of the recent occurrence by that time.

No matter how careful we are, we all leave behind little bits of ourselves as we go about our lives. Hair, sweat, fingernails, tears…any of which can be tested. No one can escape.

Why is this jostling procession of waters, its many strands overclambering one another, so many word-marks, momentary traces in wind-script of the world's voices, why is it so bragging and surrendering, love-making, spending, working and wandering

I just wear jeans, big motorcycle boots and T-shirts that are way too big for me. I like anything that has lived a little bit, that has traces of life on it. Knitwear that's a tiny bit too long because you've pulled it with your hands, or jeans that are starting to get holes.

Here are your names and here is the list and here are the things you left behind

The news I read was so upsetting that it drove all else out of my mind. There was but one short line:   "According to reliable sources, new traces have been discovered of the elusive organization which aims at liberation from the beneficent yoke of the State."   "Liberation?" Amazing, the extent to which criminal instincts persist in human nature.

Nous, les âmes nomades, avons le culte des vestiges et du pèlerinage. Nous ne bâtissons rien de durable, mais nous laissons des traces. Et quelques bruits qui s'attardent.

What is assumed to be the materialisation of the inner truth of the self is in fact an idealisation of the material - objectified - traces of consumer choices.

The KiKongo language, spoken around the Congo River's mouth, is one of the African tongues whose traces linguists have found in the Gullah dialect spoken by black Americans today on the coastal islands of South Carolina and Georgia.

Biological traces are acceptable," Hux murmured, "but a couple of skulls would be better.

So trivial are the traces of different natures that remain [in people]…that nothing hinders our living a life worthy of gods.

We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.

Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.

Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

Trivial facts are often the best hints to what is going on.

I have looked at it with all possible attention, said Dantes, and I only see a half-burnt paper, on which are traces of Gothic characters inscribed with a peculiar kind of ink.

Death does not tidy up or sweep as it departs. We all of us leave traces other than the ashes and the bones.

The eye of the mystic who is enraptured in love sees traces of eternal beauty everywhere and listens to the mute eloquence of everything created. Whatever he mentions, his goal is the essence of the beloved—like Zulaykha, who, longing for Joseph's beauty, applied to him "the name of every thing, from rue-seed to aloes-wood." If she piled up a hundred thousand names— her meaning and intention was always Joseph. (M 6:4022-37)

The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.

it is true, then, that all our actions leave their traces—some sad, others bright—on our paths; it is true that every step in our lives is like the course of an insect on the sands;—it leaves its track! Alas, to many the path is traced by tears.

nous n'eûmes plus de repos que nous n'eussions retrouvé, dans les ouvrages contemporains, une trace quelconque de ces noms extraordinaires qui avaient fort

verdad es que todas nuestras acciones dejan huellas, las unas sombrías, las otras luminosas, en nuestro pasado! ¡Verdad es también que nuestros pasos en esta vida se asemejan a la marcha del reptil sobre la arena y dejan un surco! ¡Ay!, para muchos este surco es el de sus lágrimas.

The past is never done with us in any substantial way. The most cursory examination reveals its bloody fingerprints on every surface of our lives.