Quotes About Residue

Once a thing is removed from your heart, a trace of it still remains.

Luck is the residue of design.

What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.

There's a sad feeling in a place people have just walked out of and left behind.

like a piece of soft coal, leaving only flakes of ash and a question

Ja odlazim, ali moje oko ostaje.

It may all sound very petty to complain about, but I tell you that sort of thing settles down on one like a fine dust." -Warner, Lolly Willowes

What happened casually remains -

Luck is the residue of good planning.

other people's perfume sticks with you like a bladder infection.

Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it's all over.

L'olezzo di una carneficina, credono alcuni, può aleggiare su un luogo per anni. Dicono che s'infiltri nel suolo e venga lentamente assorbito dall'intrico delle radici finché, col passare del tempo, tutto ciò che vi cresce, dal più piccolo lichene all'albero più alto, ne viene impregnato.

That's one more thing that I detest about war. It's not over when it ends.

All of this blue on my face is from the gunpowder residue from the grenade. It blasted it into my face and stained the skin.

practices are displayed only in performances: a practice is the trace, the residue, of its performances. Practices are not "stable compositions of easily recognized characteristics." They are nothing more than "footprints left behind by agents responding to their emergent situations, footprints which are only somewhat less evanescent than the transactions in which they emerged" (OHC ioo).

He took a handkerchief from his trouser pocket and wiped hard at his mouth, back and forth, as though a residue of guilt clung there and he was afraid it would give him away.

There is nothing conceivable which would so condition a man as to leave him without the slightest freedom. Therefore, a residue of freedom, however limited it may be, is left to man in neurotic and even psychotic cases. Indeed, the innermost core of the patient's personality is not even touched by a psychosis.

The house was left; the house was deserted. It was left like a shell on a sandhill to fill with dry salt grains now that life had left it.

None could discern in him the shyness that makes a person so conspicuous among people who know each other well and are bound together by the established echoes of private jokes and by an allusive residue of people's names that to them are alive with special significance, making the newcomer feel as if the magazine story he has started to read had really begun long ago ... and he wonders if they have not deliberately contrived a conversation to which he is a stranger.

I make no apologies for you. After all, each one of us is little more than the meager residue of the infinite unrealized possibilities of our lives.

Past epochs never vanish completely, and blood still drips from all their wounds, even the most ancient.

All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.

Under the hooves of the horses the alabaster sand shaped itself in whorls strangely symmetric like iron fillings in a field and these shapes flared and drew back again, resonating upon that harmonic ground and then turning to swirl away over the playa. As if the very sediment of things contained yet some residue of sentience. As if in the transit of those riders were a thing so profoundly terrible as to register even to the uttermost granulation of reality

Love fills the empty places and flows from what was once the epicenter of the wound. And it's the flowing that washes out the residue of the pain and makes us whole again. That's the crazy miracle that is love. The more you pour out, the more you have to pour.