What are remains?

Famous quotes containing the word remains:

“It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“The old ideals are dead as nails—nothing there. It seems to me there remains only this perfect union with a woman—sort of ultimate marriage—and there isn’t anything else.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“A family’s photograph album is generally about the extended family—and, often, is all that remains of it.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)