All That Remains Quotes

• Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

  William Harvey

  Knowledge, Knowing, Physicians

  "Scientific Papers: Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology".

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• A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Cousin, Often Is

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.10, Macmillan

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• All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.

  Germaine Greer

  Mom, Mother, Opportunity

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• All that remains is the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Mother Daughter, Son, Names

  Song: The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald

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• All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.

  Mitchell Thomas

  Funny, Soccer, Football

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• There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.

  Lord Kelvin

  Science, Discovery, Measurement

  "Is Scientific Genius Extinct?" by Ross Pomeroy, bigthink.com.

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• All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.

  Max Frisch

  Mad, Desire, Identity

  Max Frisch (1975). “Montauk”, Suhrkamp Publishers

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• Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.

  Harlan Ellison

  Memories, Wind, Names

  "Paladin of the Lost Hour". Novelette by Harlan Ellison, 1985.

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• I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Anne Frank (2017). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.143, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.

  Blaise Pascal

  World, Maxims, Plenty

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• All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance.

  André Aciman

  Remembrance, Strange, Remains

  André Aciman (2008). “Call Me by Your Name: A Novel”, p.199, Macmillan

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• The vineyard country, russet, reddish, carmine-brown in this season.
  A blue outline of hills above a fertile valley.
  It's warm as long as the sun does not set, in the shade cold returns.
  A strong sauna and then swimming in a pool surrounded by trees.
  Dark redwoods, transparent pale-leved birches.
  In their delicate network, a sliver of the moon.
  I describe this for I have learned to doubt philosophy
  And the visible world is all that remains.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Country, Strong, Philosophy

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• Summer grasses — all that remains of great soldiers' imperial dreams.

  Matsuo Basho

  Summer, Dream, Soldier

  "Narrow Road to the Interior".

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• Words matter, and the right words matter most of all. In the end they're all that remain of us.

  John Birmingham

  Wisdom, Art, Matter

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• In the New Testament, Thomas Jefferson cut out everything that was mystical, magical, miracle - physically with scissors - and then pasted in all that remained, such as Jesus's Sermon on the Mount.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Jesus, Cutting, Miracle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a bit of difference. All that remains is a desert.

  Haruki Murakami

  Differences, Different, Desert

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.71, Random House

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• The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.

  Alan Lightman

  Happiness, Pain, Joy

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.42, Vintage

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• What’s the good of these great fragile fits of enthusiasm, these jaded jumps of joys? We know nothing anymore, but the dead stars; we gaze at their faces; and we gasp with pleasure. Our mouths are dry as the lost beaches, and our eyes turn aimlessly and without hope. Now all that remain are these cafés where we meet to drink these cool drinks, these diluted spirits, and the tables are stickier than the pavements where our shadows of the day before have fallen.

  Andre Breton

  Beach, Stars, Eye

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• Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. All that remains of my mother is what I remember and what I have written for and about her. Eventually that is all that will remain of [my husband] and me. Writing sometimes feels frivolous and sometimes sacred, but memory is one of my strongest muses. I serve her with my words. So long as people read, those we love survive however evanescently. As do we writers, saying with our life's work, Remember. Remember us. Remember me.

  Marge Piercy

  Mother, Memories, Husband

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• Nobody the dead man & Nobody the living Nobody is giving in & Nobody is giving Nobody hears me but just Nobody cares Nobody fears me but Nobody just stares Nobody belongs to me & Nobody remains No Nobody knows nothing All that remains are remains

  Kami Garcia

  Men, Giving, Care

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• When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Motivational, Matter, Impossible

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• She wore an ivory-white dress and held the world in her eyes. I barely remember the priest's words or the faces of the guests, full of hope, who filled the church on that March morning. All that remains in my memory is the touch of her lips and, when I half opened my eyes, the secret oath I carried with me and would remember all the days of my life.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Morning, Memories, Eye

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.454, Penguin

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• What I felt for you was a combination of respect and affection. There was a closeness I felt through intimate interaction. The affection part is all over with. All that remains is the respect. If I put my arms around you and told you that I missed you, I would be lying. You're alright with me and I wish you well. But you're not me and that makes you one of them and you can only get so close.

  Henry Rollins

  Lying, Wish, Would Be

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• For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you.

  Sharon Shinn

  Stars, World, Remains

  Sharon Shinn (1997). “Archangel”, p.285, Penguin

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• All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.

  Marguerite Duras

  White, Bones, Purity

  Marguerite Duras (2013). “The Ravishing of Lol Stein”, p.33, Pantheon

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