Traces Quotes

143 quotes by 135 authors

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. — William Gibson
Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then… — Lev Grossman
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality. — Pablo Picasso
The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon. — Will Self
We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch. — Lewis Thomas
Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his… — Morris West
A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships,… — Jorge Luis Borges
There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish… — Truman Capote
How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues,… — Haruki Murakami
The only thing of importance, when we depart, will be the traces of love we have left behind. — Albert Schweitzer
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her… — Edith Wharton
The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room; only one activity: clearing away ... The destructive character is young and cheerful. For destroying rejuvenates… — Walter Benjamin
For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he… — Cormac McCarthy
The stains could be seen only in the sunlight, so Ruth was never really aware of them until later, when she would stop at an… — Alice Sebold
The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces… — Dante Alighieri
That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten.… — Joseph Roth
of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood;… — Paulo Coelho
He thinks about her, at this moment, in her house, a few thin walls away, packing her life into boxes and bags and he wonders… — Jon McGregor
At first, it feels as if she has vanished forever, and all traces are destroyed. But later, when the pain of loss doesn't overwhelm all… — Maria V. Snyder
Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it… — Arthur Schopenhauer

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