Quotes About Remains

In the end there's nothing left except a pair of shoes and a bundle of old clothes.

Oh my God! I shouted, smacking at myself to get it off. The chanting abruptly stopped as I danced about the interior of the circle, beating the chunky dust off me. It only made things worse, and I began coughing on someone's dead grandmother. My eyes watered, and I finally gave up, glaring at them from around my hair, now all over the place. Damn it, I was covered in strawberries and human remains.

Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.

Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men - the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains.

Between the fire and a storm that night," Alisa said, once she'd recovered, "Toby's remains were never definitively found.

You know how to end your life. Hers could be another story. We cannot help you with this decision. Yet when all is sifted, what remains? Faith.

Your ghost will walk, you lover of trees,(If our loves remain)In an English lane.

She can sniff it as she can sniff the pungency of the earth where it hides little treasures for the table; or the remains of the long-dead.

On November 13, the badly decomposed remains of Mary Meehan and her unborn baby were found buried beneath an empty lot, south of Sea-Tac. Meehan was the only victim to be fully buried by the killer.

The earth is mostly just a boneyard.

I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as the carcass dries out. The knife and fork are abviously middle-class sensibilities. The palm tree is a nice touch. A broken dream,perhaps? Plastic honeymoon, deserted island? Oh, If you put in a slice of pumpkin pie, it could be a desserted island! (Pg 64)

New Brunswick, New Jersey, where I had to cut off two of its feet to get it upstairs to my third-floor office at 16 Stratford Place. There, for all I know, it remains to this day.)

When love and fear meet, only love remains.

Although the fire is dead, these cinders are its voice

If this Government remains in power for another year and carries on in the same measure in this direction, it will go far towards making Germany a danger to world peace for years

Were they merely mortal remains? she thought, as the air cleared and a billowy white cloud momentarily obscured the sunbeams. Was that all she'd let go, or had she, as her father promised, allowed a falcon to take flight?

Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains.

Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains. Liber AL vel Legis, II: 9

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

Less than a drop of blood remains in me that does not tremble; I recognize the signals of the ancient flame.

I am the life just passing through. I'm what remains and so are you.

This is what remains. Magical objects with the magic gone out of them. A few cassettes and no tape machine on which they can be played.

This was not [him]. It was a thing, with all the [him]-ness gone from it. Death takes the person and leaves his shell behind, like a hollowed-out tree.

From these fragmented remains, one can glean that sore need drove him to seek the homeland of the Elderlings. His troubles are familiar ones; ships raided his coastline mercilessly.