Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana

Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
George Santayana

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
James Joyce

War remains the decisive human failure.
John Kenneth Galbraith

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
Charles Baudelaire

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
George Eliot

We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every being comes and goes at the right time and remains for a time during the time allotted to it. Every thing has its time.
Martin Heidegger

Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without being something temporal like the beings in time.
Martin Heidegger

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.
Martin Heidegger

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
George Harrison

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.
Marie Antoinette

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Thomas Carlyle

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
Anatole France

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike

San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
Jack London

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
Samuel Butler

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
Neil Gaiman

The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.
Julie Andrews

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.
Louisa May Alcott

Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process.
Geddy Lee