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Quotes About Vanishing

The moon continued to darken, even as the eastern sky grew pale. A third of the disc had vanished into shadow and Will caught his breath at the beauty of it, and the danger.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The white hound who runs before them is gone, vanished, tattered and blown apart by the freshening breeze as if he had no more substance than a twist of smoke.
~ Elizabeth Bear
eventually, everything goes away.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Everything vanishes someday! If love were to arrive, the knowledge that someday it would leave would be devastating. Everyone dies. Life changes us. Experiences and circumstances change us!
~ Elizabeth Kim
In fact, the American Mastodon vanished around thirteen thousand years ago. Its demise was part of a wave of disappearances that has come to be known as the megafauna extinction. This wave coincided with the spread of modern humans and, increasingly, is understood to have been a result of it. In this sense, the crisis Cuvier discerned just beyond the edge of recorded history was us.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
It is found again. What? Eternity. It is the sea Gone with the sun.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
What will happen to the world when you leave it? Nothing, in any case, will remain of what is now visible.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
All that I possess and use Is like the fleeting vision of a dream. It fades into the realms of memory, And fading, will be seen no more.
~ ??ntideva
We cannot describe it. We cannot reveal it. And when we do, we disappear.
~ BABA HARI DAS
Not long ago the forests were our depth, a sun-dappled underworld, an inexhaustible timeless source. Now they are vanishing.
~ Gary Snyder
I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.
~ Gene Wolfe
You don't just leave Los Angeles. Such a departure requires magical intervention. You can't simply purchase a ticket to another destination. You must disappear.
~ Kate Braverman
I am gone tomorrow. And there and gone again by the time you read this.
~ Salvador Plascencia
These transnationalists have little need for national loyalty, view national boundaries as obstacles that thankfully are vanishing, and see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite's global operations
~ Samuel P. Huntington
Everything that was his was now no one's; everything he'd seen and felt and knew was now gone.
~ Sara Gran
I wanted to matter. For my life to matter. So many people die and no one knows they ever existed. They're ripples in a stream, disappearing when the wind blows.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.
~ Margaret Atwood
Privacy is rarely lost in one fell swoop. It is usually eroded over time, little bits dissolving almost imperceptibly until we finally begin to notice how much is gone.
~ Daniel J. Solove
How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
What came is gone forever every time
~ Allen Ginsberg
Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.
~ Donna Tartt
Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning