Trace Quotes
460 quotes by 403 authors
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I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying…
— Tom Stoppard
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When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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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…
— E. O. Wilson
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You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look…
— William Butler Yeats
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Mobile phones are one of the most insecure devices that were ever available, so they're very easy to trace; they're very easy to tap.
— Evgeny Morozov
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There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and…
— Alice Hoffman
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Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that…
— Neal Stephenson
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She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed…
— Aleister Crowley
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Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the…
— H P Lovecraft
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Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Thus Gotama [Buddha] walked toward the town to gather alms, and the two samanas recognized him solely by the perfection of his repose, by the…
— Hermann Hesse
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There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that…
— A. S. Byatt
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We discover that we do not know our role; we look for a mirror; we want to remove our make-up and take off what is…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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In two weeks, despite these notes, I shall no longer believe in what I am experiencing now. One must leave behind a trace of this…
— Jean Cocteau
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Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
— Robert Henri
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Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.
— William Blake
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He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the…
— Jodi Picoult
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Will we ever learn that certain things can be understood only if we take the trouble to trace them to their origins.
— Jose Saramago
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In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have…
— Marguerite Duras
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Sometimes he thinks that if he could only trace the path of his life carefully enough, everything would become clear. The ways that he screwed…
— Dan Chaon
Who Wrote These Trace Quotes
403 authors contributed a total of 460 Trace Quotes, led by these top contributors: