All That Remains Quotes - Page 2

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

  Matsuo Basho

  Summer, Dream, Soldier

  "Narrow Road to the Interior".

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• If a person survives an ordinary span of sixty years or more, there is every chance that his or her life as a shapely story has ended and all that remains to be experienced is epilogue. Life is not over, but the story is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Years, Ordinary, Stories

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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 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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• 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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• After a certain point is reached the numbers cease to matter, and all that remains is the faceless mass of a crowd.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Numbers, Crowds, Matter

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.231, Hachette UK

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• The fuses had been lit and could not be extinguished. All that remained was to observe the speed of the spark, and the size of the explosions.

  Michael Lewis

  Sparks, Size, Speed

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.235, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life.

  Allan Bloom

  Prayer, Ephemeral, Daily Life

  Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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• Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cutting, Desert, Disappear

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 02, 2014

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• But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

  Margaret Atwood

  Pain, Sight, Mind

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from May 29, 2011

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• To have humility is to experience reality, not in relation to ourselves, but in its sacred independence. It is to see, judge, and act from the point of rest in ourselves. Then, how much disappears, and all that remains falls into place. In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes a mystery, a cloud a revelation, each man a cosmos of whose riches we can only catch glimpses. The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Book, Fall, Humility

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• It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.

  Paulo Coelho

  Regret, Warrior, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 16, 2016

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• What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Love, Life, Friendship

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• There are many things worth telling that are not quite narrative. And eternity itself possesses no beginning, middle or end. Fossils, arrowheads, castle ruins, empty crosses: from the Parthenon to the Bo Tree to a grown man's or woman's old stuffed bear, what moves us about many objects is not what remains but what has vanished. There comes a time, thanks to rivers, when a few beautiful old teeth are all that remain of the two-hundred-foot spires of life we call trees. There comes a river, whose current is time, that does a similar sculpting in the mind.

  David James Duncan

  Beautiful, Moving, Men

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• a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.

  Cathleen Schine

  Mean, Gone, Letters

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• At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite, a twisted tree are sculpted in this atmosphere basted with reflections. All that remains: a countryside of imperishable contours.

  Mohammed Dib

  Nature, Reflection, Sky

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• Originally the structure was . . . a modern narrator who would appear intermittently and talk about his memories of his grandmother, which would then be juxtaposed against scenes from the past. But the stories from the past were always more interesting that the things in the present. I find this almost endemic to modern plays that veer between past and present. . . . So as we've gone on developing GOLDEN CHILD, the scenes from the past have become more dominant, and all that remains of the present are these two little bookends that frame the action.

  David Henry Hwang

  Children, Memories, Grandmother

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• Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.

  Wole Soyinka

  Space, Aliens, Slave

  Wole Soyinka (1997). “The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis”, p.139, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees ... one's happiness, one's reality?

  Virginia Woolf

  Lying, Past, Reality

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “Monday or Tuesday”, p.47, Virginia Woolf

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