Quotes About Vanishing

A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.

I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.

Nothing disappears before appears

Aceptar que ser adultos es dejar de mostrarse, es aprender a ocultarse hasta desaparecer?

A veces me pregunto dónde se habrá desvanecido. En el fondo del mar. Dentro de una grieta o en una galería subterránea cuya existencia sólo ella conoce. En una vieja bañera repleta de un potente ácido. Dentro de un foso carbonero de otros tiempos, de esos a los que dedicaba tantas palabras. En la cripta de una pequeña iglesia de montaña abandonada. En una de las tantas dimensiones que nosotros todavía no conocemos.

I take it for granted that she has found a way to disappear, to leave not so much as a hair anywhere in this world.

Accept that to be adult is to disappear, is to learn to hide to the point of vanishing?

Alle Menschen verschwanden. Das Ding, das sie jagte, war vielleicht nur das Leben selbst.

I'm really not sure if others fail to perceive me or if, one fraction of a second after my face interferes with their horizon, a millionth of second after they have cast their gaze on me, they already begin to wash me from their memory: forgotten before arriving at the scant, sad archangel of a remembrance.

Men jeg ville ikke spise og bli stor og sterk. Jeg ville være liten og forsvinne – gå opp i ingenting.

The day after tomorrow you'll say that only the day before you saw someone who no longer exists. He stays in your memory for a split second and then vanishes.

I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.

This has happened to people. There was Ambrose Bierce, who walked out of America and existence, and there are thousands of others who have disappeared without a trace, though many of these may not have been caught up by time tornadoes and I do not know if a time gale blew across the deck of the Marie Celeste.

What made the days leading up to the iPhone launch even crazier was that Apple had pulled off the greatest disappearing act in tech promotion history. In January 2007, Jobs announced the long-awaited iPhone. But somewhere that winter, the iPhone vanished.

No relatives, no friends, nobody. Doesn't that seem strange to you? Someone disappears and no one gives a damn?

I'd only stop talking when... I disappeared, or when I slept, which is the same as disappearing but horizontally.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

How quickly all things disappear, in the universe the bodies themselves, but in time the remembrance of them;

Come tutte le cose rapidamente svaniscano, nel cosmo i corpi stessi, nel tempo il loro ricordo;

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.

What was in them was promise. They dealt in transformations; they suggested an endless series of possibilities, extending like the reflections in two mirrors set facing one another, stretching on, replica after replica, to the vanishing point.

But not, surely, for the first time in human history. How many others have stood in this place? Left behind, with all gone, all swept away. The dead bodies evaporating like slow smoke; their loved and carefully tended homes crumbling away like deserted anthills. Their bones reverting to calcium; night predators

Time just gets away from us.