Quotes About Residue

At this prison the doors are inches thick, steel; once factory smooth, they now carry multiple dents. Imprints of human faces, knees, elbows, teeth, residue of blood are harvested large on their gray surface. Prison hieroglyphics: pain, fear, death, all permanently recorded here, at least until a new slab of metal arrives.

I found cheerfulness to be like life itself—not to be created by any argument. Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of pain filled thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill.

When you ghost hunt, you kind of time travel: you get that residue of the past.

charcoal. What was left of the

There's not enough of me left over.

With the demise of imagination I inherited its residue, a kind of permanent disagreement with reality, more like an anger, though, than a rejection. My laughter had already been a denial, and a more effective kind, perhaps, than suicide.

Fright and loss leave residue.

never entirely erased the stink, though—she must have one rank pussy)

Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth.

The carnage was over, but there was still a bitter taste in my mouth.

Eravamo nati dopo la guerra, eravamo la schiuma che resta dopo la mareggiata.

If it's a very emotional scene, you're kind of relieved when you've done it, kind of spent. And there are times when you can be rattled, certain characters if they're hyper, that can carry over, the residue of that. But I try to leave it on the set.

Some details escaped her, but the regret remained with her.

Whether you know it or not, we leave parts of ourselves wherever we go.

There is a term for people caught on a street crossing after the light has changed: pedestrian-traffic residue.

to a great extent, the uncertainty of philosophy is more apparent than real: those questions which are already capable of definite answers are placed in the sciences, while those only to which, at present, no definite answer can be given, remain to form the residue which is called philosophy.

I have always believed that places with a long history, especially those in which terrible events have taken place, retain something of those times, some trace in the air.

It isn't that nothing is left. It is that what remains is such an old sad ghost of the thing that used to be, and he can't bear lying down with the vestiges.

I remain too impressed with Freud's vision of the human animal's compromise with existence--the defense or deflection of our ego in knowledge of ourselves from what there is to know about ourselves--to suppose that a human life can get itself without residue into the clear.

Los años habian pasado borrándolo todo y lo que quedada era el humo de los recuerdos.

Within all of us is a varying amount of space lint and star dust, the residue from our creation. Most are too busy to notice it, and it is stronger in some than others. It is strongest in those of us who fly and is responsible for an unconscious, subtle desire to slip into some wings and try for the elusive boundaries of our origin.

The strange and scattered pieces of ourselves we leave behind,

I came away with pieces of you sticking to me

I have so much residue crap in my hair from years and years of not washing it and not having any sense of personal hygiene whatsoever. Even today, I go into these things where I'm supposed to be this sexy guy or whatever, and I'm literally asking, 'If I get plumes of dandruff on me, can you just brush it off?'