Without A Trace Quotes

#1. night and day, a hundred billion neutrinos from the Sun pass through each square inch of your body, every second, without a trace of interaction with your body's atoms.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. Perhaps it makes sense that a creature that doesn't get ill and has few enemies among its neighbors would also live agelessly and die without explanation or cause
would simply vanish without a trace.

Amy Stewart

#3. To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men have gone without a trace?

W.G. Sebald

#4. Remember also that scars of all sorts are all right. Scars are wounds that have healed, not without a trace, but have healed nonetheless. Think of all the scar tissue around Christ's heart, Jesus our wounded healer.

William Sloane Coffin

#5. We idealize the transformative life into a life of power, of extraordinary experience, of deep realization. It is none of these things; rather it is a life that is without a trace, a life as it actually is, which is without me.

Steven Harrison

#6. New love might replace an earlier love, but the old love is always there, no matter what. You live your life on two levels, probably to avoid falling through without a trace if a hole appears in one of them.

Henning Mankell

#7. The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace.

Paul Theroux

#8. A debt should be paid off till the last penny; An enemy should be destroyed without a trace

Chanakya

#9. In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly.

Nostradamus

#10. The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.

Helen Vendler

#11. Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and more sad. But perhaps her greatest ability, or at least the one that most intrigues me, is how she can convey deep and powerful emotion without a trace of sentimentality.

Julian Fellowes

#12. These books sank without a trace, or faded fast, because they tell the sort of truths that Madison and Jefferson believed our Constitution should protect - truths that the people have the right to know, and needs to know, about our government and other powers that keep us in the dark.

Christopher Simpson

#13. what good is safety if she has to grow up in a world where people disappear without a trace because they pray to a different God?

Kristin Hannah

#14. What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

Pablo Picasso

#15. It never ceased to amaze me how she just had the facts always, in her head. It occured to me that if, or when, she died, a whole load of facts, a body of knowledge, might disappear without a trace.

Olivia Sudjic

#16. If we dissolve without a trace, will the real world even care?

Owl City

#17. It was such a radiant smile, without a trace of shadow, that I couldn't help smiling myself.

Haruki Murakami

#18. 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 energies and drove me in new directions.

E. O. Wilson

#19. There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace

Bernard Hinault

#20. We don't actually fear death, we fear that no one will notice our absence, that we will disappear without a trace.

T. S. Eliot

#21. I was learning the importance of names - having them, making them - but at the same time I sensed the dangers. Recognition was followed by oblivion, a yawning maw whose victims disappeared without a trace.

Josephine Baker

#22. I believe that nothing passes without a trace and that each of our smallest steps has significance for the present and the future.

Anton Chekhov

#23. The sands of time are quicksands, said Adam One. So much can sink into them without a trace. And what a blessing when those things that sink away are needless worries.

Margaret Atwood

#24. Absence is worse than death. If you suddenly disappeared without a trace, it's like you had never lived.

Vaddey Ratner

#25. I have friends that tease me about 'Without a Trace;' they say, 'You're really good at saying, 'Have you seen this person?'

Eric Close

#26. Only the passionate were immortal, it seemed. If you fought, screwed, screamed, laughed, or otherwise experienced life intensely, for better or worse, you left a record. Those who lived a quiet, well-behaved, well-tempered life? Gone without a trace.

Magnus Flyte

#27. A pity, ' he said, without a trace of mockery. 'It seems that those who possess the greatest beauty appreciate it the least.

Jeanne Kalogridis

#28. The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

Margaret Atwood

#29. The person who did all of these things has gone away, vanished without a trace in the ecstasy of existence.

Frederick Lenz

#30. Look at his toes. He, let's be frank, has two left feet.' 'Verily,' Chamberlain Le Goff confirmed without a trace of amazement. 'There are plenty of tapestries like that in Beauclair. The master who wove them was a true master. But he drank an awful lot. As artists do.

Andrzej Sapkowski

#31. Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace.

Farley Mowat

#32. For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace.

Anton Chekhov

#33. You're a bad person, Ellie," he said without a trace of irony.
"I'm not bad. The world is bad and I'm just trying to survive in it.

Karina Halle

#34. For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are.

Guy Hamilton

#35. Man dies. Come from darkness, into darkness he returns, and is reabsorbed, without a trace left, into the illimitable void of time.

Leonid Andreyev

#36. Women are hard to keep track of, most of them. They slip into other names, and sink without a trace.

Margaret Atwood

#37. How did you merit so much devotion so quickly?' I asked, making no attempt to keep the sarcasm from my voice.
'I show them Heaven', said she, without a trace of irony. 'People are so desperate for light'.

Rachel Hartman

#38. We do not disappear without a trace. We leave a wake that never quite disappears, a gash in time that we so laboriously leave behind us.

Lars Saabye Christensen

#39. But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity.

Carl Jung

#40. My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction.

Fernando Pessoa

#41. Joe had run away, escaped without a trace, and come here to hide. But now he was ready to come home. The problem was that he didn't know how to do it.

Michael Chabon

#42. Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.

Evan S. Connell

#43. She said I could come back to her room if I liked. 'I'll check if you've got testicular cancer,' she said without a trace of humour.

It kind of killed the mood.

Peter Moore

#44. You sound like a control freak." The words are out of my mouth before I can stop them.
"Oh, I exercise control in all things, Miss Steele," he says without a trace of humor in his smile.

E.L. James

#45. A man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.

Wolfgang Borchert

#46. I'm supposed to stay away from you." He grinned at that. "Says who?" She ignored the question. "And while I'm certain that at least half the rumors about you couldn't possibly be true - " "They are," Gideon said without a trace of shame. "You're a rake, then." "The worst kind.

Lisa Kleypas

#47. There are books which we read early in life, which sink into our consciousness and seem to disappear without leaving a trace. And then one day we find, in some summing-up of our life and put attitudes towards experience, that their influence has been enormous.

Anais Nin

#48. If we allow our thoughts to arise and dissolve by themselves,
they will pass through our mind as a bird flies through the sky,
without leaving a trace.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#49. But you can't truly hate a man without loving him first, and there's always a trace of that love left over.

Joe Abercrombie

#50. Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

Orhan Pamuk

#51. When you train your thoughts to dissolve as they arise, they will cross your mind like a bird crosses the sky
without leaving a trace.

Julietta Suzuki

#52. Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victim, has been chased away by your brochure, or will yet be eradicated by it.

Herman Gorter

#53. I looked into his sandy brown eyes, at one with the hair. At the business- like outward presentation of the man who daily printed sneers, innuendo, distrust and spite and spoke without showing a trace of them. 'Off the record,' I said,'bash his face in'.

Dick Francis

#54. If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence.

Anton Chekhov

#55. Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention?

David Richards

#56. I don't want to go without leaving a trace.

Somaly Mam

#57. I am so sad, Eleanor, so sad that my body has become transparent, I've shed so many tears. Is it possible to dissolve into water without leaving a trace?

Leonora Carrington

#58. In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, and - if one remains in pure mindfulness and freedom - disturbing thoughts arise and go without leaving a trace. That is basic meditation.

Matthieu Ricard

#59. I mean, weird, dead alien technology with effects we don't understand sweeping whole ships away without leaving a trace or explanation. That's probably safe to play with, right?

James S.A. Corey

#60. If you ever took an enema, you'd disappear off the face of this Earth without trace!

Lady Colin Campbell

#61. Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#62. Five-Year," a term given to cash minted before 2023. That was the last year cash was produced without embedded chips that could trace every use of the currency as if it was a debit or credit card.

Gary A. Ballard

#63. What is a shadow? It is the self without a face or a name, all outline and no feature, the self on the verge of being erased. It is the incidental child of matter and light. Look how it spreads itself on the ground, weary but weightless, unable to leave a trace.

Conchitina Cruz

#64. time before history" is because it was an era that came and went without leaving a trace of itself. Since nothing went "wrong, " nobody had any reason to write anything down. It was lived, not recorded.

Mel Ziegler

#65. We could do muscles first, then brains,: Aislin suggests.
"It's not all genetic, you know: he would have to work out."
"Make him right and I'll work him out," she says with a trace of her confident leer.
"Without a brain?"
She sighs. "They're better off without one.

Michael Grant

#66. We went to the door and I let Asha in. I expected an uberawkward moment when he and Vayl met. But Asha took care of that problem right away. "So you belong to Jasmine," he said in his melancholy voice. It somehow delivered Vayl his deepest condolences without bearing a trace of malice toward me.

Jennifer Rardin

#67. How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is merely rocks and clouds and lava and blackness. It's a village scraped raw by warm waters leaving not a trace of what existed before.

Douglas Coupland

#68. What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

Carrie Chapman Catt