Remains Quotes - Page 6

• The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.

  Douglas Coupland

  Past, Bulls, Glue

  "The gum thief". Book by Douglas Coupland, September 25, 2007.

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• Regardless of whether I can shift my affections to another - and the heart, as you observed, is a notoriously fickle beast - the question remains: should I?

  Christopher Paolini

  Heart, Fickle, Affection

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1450, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I'm suprised he doesn't send Christmas cards," Antonio said. "I can see them now. Tasteful, embossed veilum cards, the best he can steal. Little notes in perfect penmanship,"Happy holidays. Hope everyone is well. I sliced up Ethan Ritter in Miami and scattered his remains in the Atlantic. Best wishes for the new year. Karl.

  Kelley Armstrong

  New Year, Holiday, Years

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings”, p.131, Vintage Canada

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• There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

  Martin Heidegger

  Empty, Worn, Empty Words

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• As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness of human life” remains a shameful lie, uttered with the object of keeping the oppressed slaves in their chains.

  Leon Trotsky

  Lying, Long, Principles

  Leon Trotsky, Slavoj Žižek, Henry Noel Brailsford (2007). “Terrorism and communism: a reply to Karl Kautsky”, Verso Books

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• Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves. No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.

  Simone Weil

  Brother, Betrayal, Military

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• You speak as if a war were raging." "To the remains of the human race, one is.

  Stephenie Meyer

  War, Race, Speak

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• I reach for Prim in the twilight, clamp my hand on her leg and pull myself over to her. Her voice remains steady as she croons to Buttercup. "It's all right, baby, it's all right. We'll be OK down there." My mother wraps her arms around us. I allow myself to feel young for a moment and rest my head on her shoulder.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mother, Baby, Twilight

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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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• Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

  Albert Camus

  Stranger, Said, No Hope

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.117, Vintage

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• To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is mankind's fundamental condition – irrational, violent, guilt-wracked, despairing, and mad.

  Peter Straub

  Lying, Character, Self

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• Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the knowledge that the One in whom that faith is placed has proven that He is worthy of that trust. In its essence, faith is a confidence in the person of Jesus Christ and in His power, so that even when His power does not serve my end, my confidence in Him remains because of who He is.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Bible, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Jul 19, 2015

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• Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

  C. S. Lewis

  Nonsense

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Long, Deep Thought

  1879-80 The Brothers Karamazov, bk.5, ch.5.

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• there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Thinking, Want

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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• The time has come to realise that an interpretation of the universe—even a positivist one—remains unsatisfying unless it covers the interior as well as the exterior of things; mind as well as matter. The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Men, Mind

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• The truth remains. I was, and am, disgusted with myself.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Disgusted

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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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• Well, you split your soul, you see, and hide part of it in an object outside the body. Then, even if one’s body is attacked or destroyed, one cannot die, for part of the soul remains earthbound and undamaged. But of course, existence in such a form . . .

  J. K. Rowling

  Soul, Body, Splits

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• And if you take one from three hundred and sixty-five what remains?" "Three hundred and sixty-four, of course." Humpty Dumpty looked doubtful, "I'd rather see that done on paper," he said.

  Lewis Carroll

  Three, Done, Paper

  Lewis Carroll (2015). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: 150th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.166, Penguin

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• Perhaps that is our doom, our human curse, to never really know one another. We erect edifices in our minds about the flimsy framework of word and deed, mere totems of the true person, who, like the gods to whom the temples were built, remains hidden. We understand our own construct; we know our own theory; we love our own fabrication. Still . . . does the artifice of our affection make our love any less real?

  Rick Yancey

  Real, Mind, Temples

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• Craftsmanship isn't like water in an earthen pot, to be taken out by the dipperful until it's empty. No, the more drawn out the more remains.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Taken, Water, Empty

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “Taran Wanderer: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.130, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I had grown up. I had learned that being a woman was knowing when to stand firm and when to compromise. I had learned to laugh and weep; I had learned that I was weak as well as strong. I had learned to love. I was no longer a rigid, upright tree that would not flex and bow, even though the gale threatened to snap it in two; I was the willow that bends and shivers and sways, and yet remains strong.

  Juliet Marillier

  Strong, Two, Knowing

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Seer of Sevenwaters: A Sevenwaters Novel 5”, p.391, Pan Australia

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• Depression is a disorder of mood, so mysteriously painful and elusive in the way it becomes known to the self -- to the mediating intellect-- as to verge close to being beyond description. It thus remains nearly incomprehensible to those who have not experienced it in its extreme mode.

  William Styron

  Self, Way, Painful

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Strong, Soul And Body

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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