Quotes About Vanishing

Now an enemy is never so near and consequently so threatening, as when he has completely disappeared.

gasped in disbelief as the three men I was following vanished before my eyes, one after another. Just like that. Like human-sized versions of Yondu drones.

I demanded. "Good question. All we know is that she's vanished without a trace.

No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.

We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing.

All that may be wished for, will by nature fade to nothing.

The darkness and myself. Everything else was gone. And the little that was left of me was going, faster and faster.

The past had vanished and become nothing; the future was the inconceivable nothingness of annihilation. All that was left was the ceaselessly shrinking fragment of time called 'now'.

She simply vanished, I suppose she's entitled to go if she wants to - she's free, white and twenty-one.

Todo se borrará en un segundo. El diccionario acumulado de la cuna hasta el lecho de muerte se eliminará. Llegará el silencio y no habrá palabras para decirlo. De la boca abierta no saldrá nada. Ni yo ni mí. La lengua seguirá poniendo el mundo en palabras. En las conversaciones en torno a una mesa familiar seremos tan solo un nombre, cada vez más sin rostro, hasta desaparecer en la masa anónima de una generación remota.

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

The college dreamed on-- awake. He felt a nervous excitement that might have been the very throb of its slow heart. It was a stream where he was to throw a stone whose faint ripple would be vanishing almost as it left his hand. As yet he had nothing, he had taken nothing.

Whoever lives like me doesn't die: he terminates, wilts, devegetates. The place where he was remains without him being there; the street where he walked remains without him being seen on it; the house where he lived is inhabited by not-him. That's all, and we call it nothing;

Morrer é só não ser visto.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'

The soul of the world had opened and I fantasized that everything wicked, distressing and painful was on the point of vanishing...all notion of the future paled and the past dissolved. In the glowing present, I myself glowed.

Appearance implies disappearance also: whatever appears must also disappear.

El olvido era la muerte postrera y definitiva de las cosas y la gente.

These days there's no time to be bored, happiness has vanished somewhere in the world, and all that's left is dismay.

Thuis, dat zijn mensen. Het is niet een plaats. Als je er terugkeert nadat de mensen verdwenen zijn, zie je alleen nog wat er niet is.

Let me see you going but never coming back.

things disappear and are never found simply because there's too much ground to cover.

He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist.

Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared.