Best Without A Trace Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.”

Men Dies Left Darkness Return Void Without A Trace

Author:Leonid Andreyev

“The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence.”

Persons Existence Gone Ecstasy Samadhi Gone Away Without A Trace

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and more sad. But perhaps her greatest ability, or at least the one that most intrigues me, is how she can convey deep and powerful emotion without a trace of sentimentality.”

Real Ability Views Powerful Emotion Comedy Unique Real Life Ironic Intrigue Sentimentality Maggie Without A Trace Powerful Emotions

Author:Julian Fellowes

“For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.”

Ifs Life Wells Soul Would Be School Behinds Fine Eternity Salvation Retreat Fine Things Without A Trace

Author:Anton Chekhov

“In nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion, and change. However, we discover that nothing simply surges up out of nothing without having antecedents that existed before. Likewise, nothing ever disappears without a trace, in the sense that it gives rise to absolutely nothing existing in later times.”

Inspirational Giving States Transformation Remains Constant Disappear Perpetual Absolutely Nothing Without A Trace

Book:Causality and Chance in Modern Physics

Source: Causality and Chance in Modern Physics

“But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.”

Left India Track Infinity Leading Me Without A Trace

Book:Memories, dreams, reflections

Source: Memories, dreams, reflections

“The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.”

Self Self Improvement Disappear Improvement Performing Justification Vanishing Without A Trace

Book:Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

Source: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

“In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul?”

“We idealize the transformative life into a life of power, of extraordinary experience, of deep realization. It is none of these things; rather it is a life that is without a trace, a life as it actually is, which is without me.”

Extraordinary Realization Without A Trace

Author:Steven Harrison

“If tone is granted to be subjected to control, why not line also, which has equal emotional significance? And if line, why not shapes and forms? And if shapes and forms, why not allow elision or emphasis of detail? And if all these things are allowed, what becomes of the record of actuality ?... Sunk without a trace!”

Ifs Form Lines Records Emotional Shapes Equal Details Granted Tone Significance Why Not Emphasis Actuality Without A Trace

Author:William Mortensen

“There are, by the most conservative counting, two grave and deeply regrettable collateral victims of the peer-review gruesome stratagem: one is the daring of thought (wished-washed to the lowest common denominator), and the other is the individuality, as well as the responsibility, of editors (those seeking shelter behind the anonymity of "peers", but in fact dissolved in it, in many cases without a trace).”

“I don't want to name names because they'd be mad at me if I did, but people who are significant novelists can't get published by real publishers at this point, or have to go through two years of trying after writing a novel that's taken them five or six years and simply can't get the thing in print. Or it gets in print and it doesn't get reviewed in the New York Times Book Review and disappears without a trace. I mean, it's terrifying. I don't know how anybody can stand it. It's such an enormous amount of work and the economics of it are really quite brutal.”

“What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.”

May Children Real Might Happens Pain Time Grows Boys Growing Up Taken Childhood Genius Disappear Painter Zero Precocious Without A Trace

Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views

Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

“Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.”

Has Beens I Can Energy Enemy Blessed Debt Brilliant Irony Stewardship New Directions Without A Trace

Author:E. O. Wilson

“i will show you fear in a handful of dust." t.s. eliot we don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.”

Shows Disappear Absence Dust Handful Fear Of Death Eliot Without A Trace

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.”

Men Causes Inaction Slough Without A Trace

Author:Farley Mowat

“How those fires burned that are no longer, how the weather worsened, how the shadow of the seagull vanished without a trace. Was it the end of a season, the end of a life? Was it so long ago it seems it might never have been? What is it in us that lives in the past and longs for the future, or lives in the future and longs for the past? (from "No Words Can Describe It")”

Long Has Beens Ends Seems Might Past Fire Shadow Seasons Weather Burned Long Ago Seagull Without A Trace

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“Down there - he said - are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any inequity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathsomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul. Sin, you might say, without a trace of originality. They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don't say no.”

People Kind Said Soul Might Evil Sin Accepting Darkness Creative Worship Mass Everyday Sinner Dragons Originality Badness Humdrum Vetinari Without A Trace Darkness Of The Soul

Author:Terry Pratchett

“They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly, adult. They looked out into the world and never wondered how it worked, because they knew. They worked it. They were mechanics who serviced different parts of the same machine.”

Men World Way Different Doubt Childhood Understood Adults Machines Curiosity Abandoned Mechanic Matthew Inspectors Not Friends Without A Trace

Author:Arundhati Roy

“The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.”

Time Sand Quicksand Without A Trace Sands Of Time

Book:The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam

Source: The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam

“A man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.”

Ifs Men Death Dies Water Gone Prove Forgotten Disappear Circles Without A Trace

Author:Wolfgang Borchert

“Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace.”

Knows Inspirational Doe Spiritual Science Death Belief Existence Knowledge Teach Taught Evolution Transformation Disappear Extinction Continuity After Death Without A Trace

Book:The Voice of Dr. Wernher Von Braun: An Anthology

Source: The Voice of Dr. Wernher Von Braun: An Anthology

“Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.”

Funny Waiting Sound Five Meaningful Thirty Birthday Forty 40th Birthday Without A Trace

Book:MRS. BRIDGE

Source: MRS. BRIDGE

“Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.”

Ifs Kind Reason Would Be Certain Dies Generations Ready Pride Bears Pure Shame Sacred Guilt Affair Innocent Carrie Pregnancy Disgrace Ready To Die Cancellation Without A Trace

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one of his quietly amazing lines-'you ask the silence to invert itself / like a gymnast in the dark . . . ' Without a trace of rhetoric, In This House reminds us of the power of poetry: to show us how to live in a world in which we are strangers. It's a thrill to come close to such an original and deeply realized art.”

Ifs World Way Art Moments Shows Might Asks Found House Speak Language Lines Dark Silence Originals Stranger Rhetoric Thrill Elusive Gymnast Without A Trace Invert

Author:Dennis Nurkse

“To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace? The iniquity of oblivion blindly scatters her poppyseed and when wretchedness falls upon us one summer's day like snow, all we wish for is to be forgotten.”

Knows Men Giving Fall Names Wish Know How Gone Summer Forgotten Snow Titles Remembered Oblivion Iniquity Wretchedness Best Of Me Without A Trace

Book:The Rings of Saturn

Source: The Rings of Saturn

“There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace”

Terrible Delight Rivals Without A Trace

Author:Bernard Hinault

“My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction.”

Thinking Want Dream Hours Loses Growing Awareness Mere Surface Absurd Bitterness Vegetables Extinction Moss Savour Without A Trace

Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace”

Should Lasts Enemy Paid Debt Destroyed Pennies Paid Off Without A Trace

Author:Chanakya

“It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.”

Thinking Easy Friends Fiber New Friends Friend Love New Friendship Without A Trace

Book:The Works of George Eliot

Source: The Works of George Eliot

“I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.”

Names Danger Importance Victim Recognition Oblivion Yawning Without A Trace

Author:Josephine Baker

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