Without A Trace

Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all

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

Without a trace of

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

The person who did

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

Inaction will cause a

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

Howard Altmann has found a way to make language transform itself. If the elusive moment between I and Thou could speak, it might be one of his quietly amazing lines-‘you ask the silence to invert itself / like a gymnast in the dark . . . ‘ Without a trace of rhetoric, In This House … Read more

In nature nothing remains

In nature nothing remains constant. Everything is in a perpetual state of transformation, motion, and change. However, we discover that nothing simply surges up out of nothing without having antecedents that existed before. Likewise, nothing ever disappears without a trace, in the sense that it gives rise to absolutely nothing existing in later times. David … Read more

A debt should be

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

But India did not

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

There’s a terrible delight

There’s a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace Bernard Hinault

They were not friends,

They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn’t trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. Men without curiosity. Without doubt. Both in their own way truly, terrifyingly, adult. They looked out into the world and never wondered … Read more