Quotes About Stain

The search for the conditions of possibility is in principle posterior to an actual experience, and from this it follows that even if subsequently one determines rigorously the sine qua non of that experience, it can never be washed of the original stain of having been discovered post festum nor ever become what positively founds that experience.

If a body has decomposed on a crime scene there is usually a black stain left on the ground, caused by the body fluids and the insect activity. The odour can also often still be detected and sometimes there are still maggots or their shells left behind.

A blot in thy scutcheon to all futurity.

I did not know that history is like a blood stain that keeps on showing on the wall no matter how many new owners take possession, no matter how many times we pint over it.

and to present her to Himself as a glorious church, without stain or wrinkle or any such blemish, but holy and blameless.