Quotes About Erase

As William (anti-death) Gass observes in Habitations of the world , critics can try to erase or over-define the author into anonimity for all sorts of technical, political, and philosophical reasons, and this 'anonimity' may mean many things, but one thing which it cannot mean is that no one did it .

History rounds off skeletons to zero. A thousand and one is still only a thousand.

But that's the thing about words. They can't ever really erase other words. They can scribble over them, but they can never make them totally go away." -Autumn

As seductive as it might have been to erase the grief and pain of the last ten years, it was also a lie. Young Alice was a fool. A sweet, innocent fool. Young Alice hadn't experienced ten years of living.

when I checked the other day, I found it - my strawberry patch - overgrown and hidden under weeds, but still there...like secrets, like memories. You can make yourself believe that they have been erased. But they are there, if you look closely. If you have a wish to uncover them.

Those who lead the rebellion are trying to prove a point … a point that we are not one nation, that we are a group of separate countries, we are Maine, and Vermont, and Virginia and Georgia and Texas and New York … and that if any one of us disagrees with the policies of the Federal government, we have the right to erase whatever binds us together, disregard the existence—or the importance—of the Union.

As I said last week, I wash my mind all over the place. Since the idea—and ideal—is to erase myself from wherever and whenever I am, I think I should not allow myself to become too attached to any one location, not even Enchanted Hill, as I call it now, or to any particular time of day or night.

The best way to be resurrected is to be forgotten.

There's nothing I can do to erase the shadow of misery and despair from the eyes looking back at me from the photos [that I took in Afghanistan].

With the Internet, if you erase something it just means you have to spend another half-minute to find it.

It is pointless trying to decide whether Zenobia is to be classified among happy cities or among the unhappy. It makes no sense to divide cities into these two species, but rather into another two: those that through the years and the changes continue to give their form to desires, and those in which desires either erase the city or are erased by it.

makes no sense to divide cities into these two species, but rather into another two: those that through the years and the changes continue to give their form to desires, and those in which desires either erase the city or are erased by it.

No emotion was supposed to cross the great divide of class. Affection could erase all hierarchy; in this was the danger, and the delight.

If only promises could erase the past, I could open my heart enough to take you back. But we've been down this road, time and time again. And Ive learned the hard way, how the story always ends.

Violent death erase[s] more than the semblance of life.

I never got used to the way the horizon there could just erase itself and leave you marooned, adrift, in an incomplete dreamscape that was like a sketch for the world you knew...

If only you could delete feelings the same way you delete text messages.

The worst thing in life is a regret. It's those moments you wish you could erase and forget about. But without regrets, you don't have a reason to succeed.

Life is a pen. You can cross out your past, but you can't erase it.

seis años son suficientes para hacerse muchas preguntas y, si no eres una idiota, para haberles encontrado respuesta a las que la tienen. Las otras, sencillamente hay que borrarlas del disco duro. Lo significativo es saber distinguirlas.

Put it out of your mind. In no time, it will be a forgotten memory.

I watched them race along the hallway, laughing, forgetting about the shouting they'd heard, the tears they saw, and I wished all memories could be erased so easily.

Understanding is the elixir of life, the soothing balm that helps dry tears and erase wrinkles.

It will be as if we never existed if our history cannot be read.