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Quotes About Remains

Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.
~ Marguerite Duras
Loneliness is not the enemy of your joy as long as you know how you should always destroy the pensive mood that remains with you like a friend who never stands up for you when you're forced to bend
~ Munia Khan
If I am frightened then I can hide it If I am crying, I'll call it laughter If I am haunted, I'll call it my imaginary friend If I am bleeding I'll call it wine But if you leave me then I am broken And if I'm broken then only death remains
~ Elvis Costello
I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.
~ Emilie Autumn
The sky was a fading red and nothing remained of the day save for a line of molten gold slowly lowering on the western horizon.
~ Scott Lynch
Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.
~ Alphonse de Lamartine
The window went up, a maid-servant's discordant voice profaned the holy calm, and a deluge of water drenched the prone martyr's remains!
~ Mark Twain
The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.
~ Stephen King
believe that what happens in the world never really goes away. Everything that has been remains somehow, makes an impression. Some things make stronger impressions than others, but it all leaves something behind, some change, some ripple in time, don't you think? It's probably the best we can hope for.
~ Erin Hart
country-seat of Bishop Shipley, the good bishop, as Dr. Franklin used to style him.--B. DEAR SON: I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors. You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England, and the journey
~ Benjamin Franklin
Let my body be delivered to the earth without attention to the place where it lies; nothing should be associated with my dusty remains. Shame on him who draws any attention to a rotted flesh that is already no longer mine: he is worshipping the worms nibbling it.
~ Nikolai Gogol
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.
~ Douglas Coupland
I patch together a living language out of reanimated parts, like Frankenstein, and feel no disgust at scrabbling in the charnel house. Each of us makes her own monster, who earns a cozy co-tenancy of our tomb. We're all the last native speakers of a language that dies with us. Am I so special for tasting the rot on my tongue? For knowing whose remains I'm kitted out in?
~ Shelley Jackson
On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.
~ P. E. Cleator
The world is on fire time is a bomb.Ten thousand years are not enoughWhen so much remains to be done
~ Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis
Flawed as it is, Science remains the most solid god ive got. Science has the answer to ever question that can be asked.
~ Mary Roach
And then they stopped smiling. The corpse they saw in the weeds by the roadside was a rusty cylinder with bits of glass—the remnant of a gas-station pump.
~ Ayn Rand
The problem with material remains is that they are silent: they don't provide their own interpretations. And that means various interpretations are possible.
~ Bart D. Ehrman
It is always the time of hope, confidence and love. Everything passes; love remains. We will not be disappointed.
~ Carlo Maria Martini
I am no longer Mendel Singer. I am the remains of Mendel Singer.
~ Joseph Roth
I love you because that piece that remains is worth the whole and I love you by exclusion of the other lost pieces.
~ Erri De Luca
Maintaining clean, safe water remains one of our greatest national and global challenges and responsibilities.
~ Jerry Costello
Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.
~ Sam Sheppard