Quotes About Vanishing

My hometown was so dull that one time the tide went out and never came back.

Destruction doesn't create a vacuum, it simply transforms presence into absence.

Curses of vanished elders echoed down on me; too pretty, too soft, too pale, eyes far too full of the Devil, ah, that devilish smile

Words spoken to drunkards were truly words written in water. They vanished into the endless void in which the drunkard languished.

I am a wise God and a patient God," He said. "I am the One who made you." The images vanished.

The others were visible but she had slipped out of their vision, and slipping from their vision, she slipped from the vision of Thorne.

The piano sang on in crashing cascades, the rapid notes melting as fast as they were born, so like the last thin snowflakes of the winter, vanishing before they strike the pavements.

Like most youngest children, he had trouble remembering his own past. The older ones did it so well for him, why should he bother? They had built him a second-hand memory that included the years before he existed, even. He had a distinct memory of Melissa's running away from home with a peanut sandwich and a pomegranate, two years before he was born; but he himself, with his locust on a leash, had vanished.

You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.

Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till by broad spreading, it disperses to naught.

but I know somebody must be thinking about us because if they weren't we'd just disappear just like those Indians who used to climb the pueblos. Those Indians disappeared with food still cooking in the pot and air waiting to be breathed and they turned into birds or dust or the blue of the sky or the yellow of the sun. There they were and suddenly they were forgotten for just a second and for just a second nobody thought about them and then they were gone.

Savitar stroked his chin. Interesting, isn't it? What do you have to say about that, Fury? The muzzle vanished. They're on crack. Savitar shook his head. Anyone else on crack?

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

I stared at him, unable to believe this was happening. That he could just disappear, along with everything rich and strange he'd brought into my life. Vanished, like magic.

Water boils most fiercely just before it disappears. And so it is, evidently, with human affairs.

Let's face it, she can't have simply disappeared...can she?" Horace shrugged. "That's what I keep telling myself," he said morosley. "But somehow it looks as if she has.

haven't seen hide nor hair of her

she wondered where the food had escaped to.

For one month, Evan Ratliff shed his identity and tried to disappear.

I must confess, by death here, I can understand nothing but a ceasing to be, the losing of all actions of life and sense.

I'm scared that out there, someday I'll look around and realize forty years have passed and no one can see me. That I'm gone.

Few are the memories which are more than a handful of dust, to be let run through the fingers.

It writhed brightly, a spectrum of raveling colors, and then vanished and jumped position as the star resolved into view. Some distance away.

It was possible to throw a little fold of space-time around yourself like a vampire vanishing into his swirl of cloak.