Quotes About Erasure

What after all, is a video game's subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?

snow had wondrously returned. It pleased her to see anew the draped quality in the air, the muslin white descending, the animation, the plenitude. The symbol suggested itself – that there might be a white-washing now, and a more complete covering over. Snow is consolation, she thought; snow is this padding and cladding, this lush erasure of signs. She was surprised at how rested and serene she felt.

When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

he would awake from those dreams with an overpowering sadness and the familiar knowledge that this deprivation could not be alleviated without the risk of further betrayal and the eventual certainty of absolute erasure. Both pains were too extreme to face again. Better, it seemed, just to let his soul die slowly, bit by lonely bit.

The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.

What is written can be erased, alas.

The easiest way to subjugate a people is to erase a culture. I've seen it in war zones.

It goes on and on and on and eventually completely consumes my mind, blocking out memories and hopes of tomorrow, erasing everything but the present, which I begin to believe will never change. There

Anyone? On Snow's visit before the Victory Tour, he challenged me to erase any doubts of my love for Peeta. "Convince me," Snow said. It seems, under that hot pink sky with Peeta's life in limbo, I finally did. And in doing so, I gave him the weapon he needed to break me.

Czy?byÅ›my wykoÅ"czyli Hotentotów i buszmenów? SÄ…dzÄ™, ?e tak; wkrótce bÄ™dÄ… przedstawiani jako osobliwoÅ›ci; jeden z nich, wypchany, znajduje siÄ™ jako eksponat w Anglii, inny w Pary?u, jeÅ›li siÄ™ nie mylÄ™... Krótko mówiÄ…c: zniknÄ… szybko z powierzchni ziemi.

When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt out. Data should be erased as soon as its main purpose is met.

La noche voluptuosa sube, sosegándolo todo, hasta el hambre. Borrándolo todo, hasta la vergüenza…

The Khmer Rouge tried to delete everything. They tried to erase our past, our personality, our land, our sentiment. What we tried to do in 'The Missing Picture' was to reconstruct our identity, to bring it back to the people through cinema.

I cannot remember much, I cannot feel much. Maybe erasure is necessary. Maybe the human spirit defends itself as the body does, attacking infection, enveloping and destroying those malignancies that would otherwise consume us.

While claiming that the government had never provided access to land for "hard toiling whites," Johnson simply erased the nineteen years that he had worked for the passage of the Homestead Act to ensure that his constituency was given 160 acres wrested or browbeaten from Native Americans

Dan je samo bela hartija na kojoj se sve beleži iispisuje, a ra?un se pla?a no?u, na velikim, mra?nim i vrelim poljima nesanice. Ali tu se i sve rešava ibriše, kona?no i nepovratno. Svaka preboljena patnja nestaje tu kao reka ponornica, ili sagori beztraga i spomena.

Quitting Facebook would be like partially erasing myself. Quitting Twitter would constitute further erasure. Pretty soon, I'd be invisible. I was never on Instagram or Tumblr, which I guess means I never completely existed in the first place.

Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser.

The heathen could only be eliminated as a force if their culture was completely erased.

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's children lest they grow up to play their own part, to the erasure of the enemy's graveyards and holy places so that his hated name can be forgotten.

Loss would forever be etched on the child like a tattoo; it might fade over time, but it would never be erased.

Somehow along the way, I let myself be erased,

They are erasing us, and we are helping them.